Jacqueline Cochran Quotes
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Women often have a great need to portray themselves as sympathetic and pleasing, but we're also dark people with dark thoughts.
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A celibate clergy is an especially good idea, because it tends to suppress any hereditary propensity toward fanaticism.
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After college, I went into the NBC Page Program. It's one of those great programs that allows kids to get their feet wet in every area of the business.
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As a direct line to human feeling, empathic experience, genuine language and detail, poetry is everything that headline news is not. It takes us inside situations, helps us imagine life from more than one perspective, honors imagery and metaphor - those great tools of thought - and deepens our confidence in a meaningful world.
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Everyone wants me to be perfect, but I am so far from perfect!
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Going to hospital is rather like going to an alien planet.
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I'd be more likely to go for somebody who is like me. Well, I like creative people, so whatever that means... Yeah, authentic and creative.
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I listened to it last night for the first time since we started this project. I went out to my car and put it in and went to an empty parking lot and just listened and read the little pamphlet that came with it. After two or three songs I burst into tears.
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I tried the paleo diet, which is the caveman diet - lots of meat. And I tried the calorie restriction diet: The idea is that if you eat very, very little - if you're on the verge of starvation, you will live a very long time, whether or not you want to, of course.
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Being elected to the Hall of Fame is about your career pretty much and your impact on the game.
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It's a weird scene. You win a few baseball games and all of a sudden you're surrounded by reporters and TV men with cameras asking you about Vietnam and race relations.
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Prejudice of any kind implies that you are identified with the thinking mind. It means you don't see the other human being anymore, but only your own concept of that human being. To reduce the aliveness of another human being to a concept is already a form of violence.
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Madrid is not as big as London, but it is true when you are coming from a big city like Madrid, nothing is going to surprise you, and I am very happy to move to a city like London. It is a big city, and you can do everything you want with the respect that the English people always have.
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Sober up, and you see and hear everything you'd been able to avoid hearing before.
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This haunting idea of becoming a celebrity doesn't settle well with me at all.
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Don't be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment.
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The founding document of the United States of America acknowledges the Lordship of Jesus Christ because we are a Christian nation.
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I started doing improv in college, and I really liked it.
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Life certainly points it out to you - 'you can go this way or the other way.' You have to decide and it's a very strong decision because, would you sleep well knowing that you're living in the best place, but you're letting the place where you should live alone?
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Although I don't live there anymore, Scotland is a great place for the people coming over to visit and to tour around the Highlands, because it is a very magical place.
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You've got to do what's right, or what you think is right. And you've got to make tough decisions. And you've got to be willing to take on your friends when you disagree with them.
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To live without risk for me would be tantamount to death.
