Orville Wright Quotes
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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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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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All wisdom does not reside in Delhi.
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I usually try to eat in my restaurants before I fly, as I'd rather sleep on the plane and just order a salad with cheese, maybe some ice cream.
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We should go boldly where man has not gone before. Fly by the comets, visit asteroids, visit the moon of Mars. There's a monolith there. A very unusual structure on this potato shaped object that goes around Mars once in seven hours. When people find out about that they're going to say 'Who put that there? Who put that there?' The universe put it there. If you choose, God put it there...
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Now that we have learned to fly the air like birds, swim under water like fish, we lack one thing - to learn to live on earth as human beings.
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Lessons didn't really work out for me, so I went to the old school, listening to records and learning what I wanted to learn.
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That's not what basketball is about. Basketball is about playing as a team and finding a functioning level.
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No flying machine will ever fly from New York to Paris.
