Orville Wright Quotes
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My answer to those who oppose my appointment as CEO is that this is really a decision of the YWCA. They want to strengthen their grassroots to advocate on behalf of women's and children's empowerment and ending racism.
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I have always loved and appreciated the Giants organization, my Giants teammates, and the fans of San Francisco.
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I still love recording and still love the stage, but like my dad, I have the most fun when I am in front of that glorious orchestra or that kick-butt big band.
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The characters are always the focal point of a book for me, whether I'm writing or reading. I may enjoy a book that has an intriguing mystery or a good plot, but to become one of my real favorites, it has to have great characters.
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I'm half-black, half-white, so I basically put it like this: I can fit in anywhere. That's why I write so many stories from so many different perspectives, because I've seen so many.
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The higher your station, the less your liberty.
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Poetry is a phantom script telling how rainbows are made and why they go away.
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A cheat day for me, the first thing that I crave, I'll eat. That's my rule. So if I wake up and I want pancakes, I'm gonna eat pancakes. If I want a cheeseburger for lunch or for dinner, I'm gonna eat it. If I want fries, I'm gonna eat the fries.
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I don't care about revenues.
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The principle of evil in Europe is the enervating spirit of Russian absolutism.
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We love those who know the worst of us and don't turn their faces away.
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Football is losing its heart and sense of humour.
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I think poetry is a fabulous medium to encapsulate thoughts far more precisely than prose.
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If you are a writer or any kind of artist, if you change something as fundamental as where you live - the way you live - then I think you change the very instrument that is trying to make the art.
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If the only ideas you had were your own, you'd be very limited.
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I don't want to spend the next two years in Holiday Inns.
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I've recorded 25 or 30 albums. I know that sometimes when you work with producers who are kinda dictators, it doesn't help you make a better record.
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There is only one way... to get anybody to do anything. And that is by making the other person want to do it.
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A specter is haunting Europe - the specter of communism.
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On 'Death Valley,' I fought this werewolf, and he was picking me up and slamming me down. They put padding down in the garbage so he could really slam me down. They're flying around and I'm doing these jumping flying triangles pulling the guy down. It's just fun.
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If ever there was an aviary overstocked with jays it is that Yaptown-on-the-Hudson, called New York.
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Help us to be ever faithful gardeners of the spirit, who know that without darkness nothing comes to birth, and without light nothing flowers.
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One would not die from my cooking, but I am not sure one would survive my driving.
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No flying machine will ever fly from New York to Paris.
