Steve Fossett (James Stephen "Steve" Fossett) Quotes
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I would never write a memoir, because it would be too boring.
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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.
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It was all about flying round the world, working hard, being on the cover of Vogue, making money. It wasn't fun. It was exhausting, but I was young and convinced I knew best.
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I must've been a bird in some previous lifetime. I feel like I'm called to flying - the convenience and the beauty of it. That feeling of soaring would be empowering.
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All this flying around got on my nerves. But then I gave the script to Cathy to get her opinion. When she started to laugh, it was like 'That's it!'. I went to LA and I got the part.
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I love flying by the seat of my pants, going at something instinctually.
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I had that flying wheel tattooed on my forehead and on my butt.
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There is no great sport in having bullets flying about one in every direction, but I find they have less horror when among them than when in anticipation.
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It's difficult to do that internally, because you're flying five, six hours.
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Not being boring is quite a challenge.
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People say, 'Where do you live?' and I say that theoretically, I live in London, but basically that's just where I go to change my suitcase. Otherwise, I'm always flying somewhere.
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Peregrine Wickwrackscar was flying. A pilgrim with legends that went back almost a thousand years-and not one of them could come near to this!
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And God help you if you are a phoenix, and you dare to rise up from the ash.A thousand eyes will smolder with jealousy, while you're just flying past.
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To this day my seat on a saddle or on the back of a horse is as secure and tireless as in a rocking chair, and far more pleasurable. Sometimes, in later years, when I found myself suddenly on a strange horse in a trooper's saddle, flying for life or liberty in front of pursuit, I blessed the baby lessons of the wild gallops among the beautiful colts.
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I'm not one of those famous people flying round the world emoting over every catastrophe. I'm too feeble.
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I got a couple of front teeth knocked out during a football match when I was hit by a flying elbow.
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I've had fish come up on stage, and it's pretty disgusting. I try and discourage that. I discourage anything flying up on stage, actually.
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Later, after flying in the Navy for four or five years, spending some time on an aircraft carrier, I applied to and was accepted in a program where I went to graduate school first and then to the Naval Test Pilots School.
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Successful technologies often begin as hobbies. Jacques Cousteau invented scuba diving because he enjoyed exploring caves. The Wright brothers invented flying as a relief from the monotony of their normal business of selling and repairing bicycles.
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As with most phobias, the fear of flying does make some sense, but if ever there was a fear worth quashing then this is it. After all, life is short, and there's a great big world to explore out there.
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I have no aspirations of growing old and boring.
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Right here at home, we have seen what happens when a politician breaks that public trust, when they are dishonest and corrupt.
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Gratitude to God is to accept everything, even my problems, with joy.
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The good thing about flying solo is it's never boring.
