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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A specter is haunting Europe - the specter of communism.
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Don't worry about the war. It's all over but the shooting.
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When I get the questions, I answer what I can answer. If they ask me about the match, I cannot really say that I like eating bananas.
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Detachment from the world as an attachment to the ego… Who can realize the detachment in which you are as far away from yourself as you are from the world?
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Whatever our creed, we stand with admiration before the sublime character of Jesus.
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I'm a phys ed major: that's ballroom dancing and handball.
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No flying machine will ever fly from New York to Paris.
