John Cage Quotes
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My thoughts fly to the old Icelandic storytellers who created our classics, whose personalities were so bound up with the masses that their names, unlike their lives' work, have not been preserved for posterity.
Halldor Laxness
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Our nano-quadrotor robots are made to be as lightweight as possible: less than a fifth of a pound and palm-sized. They can do an aerial backflip in half a second, accelerate at two Gs, and fly rotor blade to rotor blade in three-dimensional formations - and they do all this autonomously.
Vijay Kumar
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I would enjoy flying to Mars. This was the dream of the first cosmonauts. I wish I could realize it! I am ready to fly without coming back.
Valentina Tereshkova
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I wish I could fly. Or speak fluent Chinese. Both I think are equally impossible.
Karlie Kloss
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Fly-in, fly-out curating nearly always produces superficial results; it's a practice that goes hand in hand with the fashion for applying the word 'curating' to everything that involves simply making a choice - radio playlists, hotel decor, even the food stalls in New York's High Line Park.
Hans-Ulrich Obrist
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My roots are in stand-up, and stand-up is very freeing. There's no script involved; you just fly.
Harland Williams
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I missed New York. Every break I had from the series, I'd fly back to the East Coast just to get back onstage.
Bebe Neuwirth
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Dad went to Canada to learn how to fly with the Royal Canadian Air Force. He took me on my first airplane ride, where I could have a hand on the stick.
Wally Schirra
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I've never won many awards, I didn't get certificates for swimming or anything.
Karl Pilkington
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Over the years, I had nurtured the hope to be able to fly; to handle a machine as it rose higher and higher in the stratosphere was my dearest dream.
A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
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A lot of shows fly under the radar for the first couple seasons and then become successful. It doesn't necessarily have any bearing on the success of the show or how much the network is behind it.
Katee Sackhoff
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If women can be railroad workers in Russia, why can't they fly in space?
Valentina Tereshkova
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I thought that automobiles were going to have mufflers and go fast and airplanes were going to fly fast.
Jack Vance
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I get paid to go work with people I've admired since forever, and I get to learn from them? What? I would pay to go sit and be a fly on the wall!
Gage Golightly
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A fly, Sir, may sting a stately horse and make him wince; but, one is but an insect, and the other is a horse still.
Samuel Johnson
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When you fly to New York, sometimes they put you on hold and you just go round and around in a holding pattern. Sometimes in a concert, I feel other spirits in a holding pattern that they want to land through my heart and through my fingers.
Carlos Santana Santana
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My daddy was a World War I pilot, and I just wanted to be able to fly like he did.
Forrest Bird
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It may be hard for an egg to turn into a bird: it would be a jolly sight harder for it to learn to fly while remaining an egg. We are like eggs at present. And you cannot go on indefinitely being just an ordinary, decent egg. We must be hatched or go bad.
C. S. Lewis
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Too much tail. All that jewelry weighs it down. Like vanity. Can't nobody fly with all that shit. Wanna fly, you got to give up the shit that weighs you down.
Vanity
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Ooh! Jesus Christ had dreads, so shake 'em.
Earl Stevens
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On the road, I might go to the hotel gym. When I know I won't be dancing or working out, I spend time stretching. You have to stretch every day as a dancer. I do it whenever I can when it's not weird.
Jillian Hervey
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There will have to be some way to ensure accountability for what has already been found here.
Jack Straw
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I certainly didn't have a three-book plan or a 10-year plan when I worked on the first book.
Iris Chang
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We carry our homes within us which enables us to fly.
John Cage