Orville Wright Quotes
We decided to place the motor to one side of the man, so that in case of a plunge head first, the motor could not fall upon him.
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When people read 'Breitbart' every single day and convince themselves that Barack Obama is a foreign terrorist, that is not a problem of government. That is a problem of community failure, and we have to recognize that.
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Put simply, the doctrine of 'Fair Use' applies to content republished from copyrightable material and how much of that content is, literally, fair to use.
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Whenever I get to a point I'm so tired that I forgot the verse of a song, I know I'm burnt out.
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My focus on the budget, though, has played second fiddle to what I believe is even more important - creating jobs.
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As the ancient commander addressed his soldiers before battle, so should the moralist speak to men in the struggle of the era.
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I think if a horror movie is really scary, you'll think about it for weeks, and there's something kind of fun about that - about our art, really.
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I must write the book out in my head now, before I sit down.
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We were not allowed to say, Screw, but we could say, Hump the hostess, because hump is in Shakespeare.
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It's very scary to me that people actually think we should just follow our leaders. If we can't learn from our history, we're nowhere.
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The usual fortune of complaint is to excite contempt more than pity.
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The things that have really gotten confusing to me is how you balance the desires of your publishers to produce things on a schedule, and people are always sort of giving you ideas on what you should follow up with or how you should proceed next and things like that.
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You're not supposed to be so blind with patriotism that you can't face reality. Wrong is wrong, no matter who says it.
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There's an obligation to not lead people down the wrong path, but I hardly think me wearing short shorts on stage is creating monsters.
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The major source of photochemical smog - petroleum-fueled vehicles - can be replaced by emission-free electric vehicles.
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It's never been difficult for me to say no. I have never given excuses like I don't have dates. I have never over-quoted to avoid a project. I simply say that while the script might be good, I can't connect with it. My strategy is that while I wouldn't want anyone to waste my time, I shouldn't be doing that, either, with others.
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I'm not a fan of action movies.
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I'm not very well known. However, the more well known you get, the more people are going to have expectations of you. Although that's great, it also imposes certain pressures.
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I remember moving out to L.A. straight after college and just starting to try to write scripts and trying to get stuff off the ground.
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When men are full of envy they disparage everything, whether it be good or bad.
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The art of biography seems to have fallen on evil times in England. … With us, the most delicate and humane of all the branches of the art of writing has been relegated to the journeymen of letters; we do not reflect that it is perhaps as difficult to write a good life as to live one.
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God can make good use of all that happens, but the loss is real.
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When you're a man you try and be macho.
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If you are walking backward, away from something you think is a mistake, you may be right in supposing it is a mistake, but for you to be walking backward is never right. You know what happens to people who walk backward.... We are meant to walk forward, not backward, and reaction is always a matter of walking backward.
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We decided to place the motor to one side of the man, so that in case of a plunge head first, the motor could not fall upon him.
