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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I never feel there's anything I can't do.
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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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My doctor found a spot on my lung. He told me it looked like adenocarcinoma, a cancer he attributes to smoking. He didn't need to biopsy it.
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I think I'd fall for you no matter what, Claire. You're kind of awesome.
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The real world is not easy to live in. It is rough; it is slippery. Without the most clear-eyed adjustments we fall and get crushed. A man must stay sober; not always, but most of the time.
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In most organizations, change comes in only two flavors: trivial and traumatic. Review the history of the average organization and you'll discover long periods of incremental fiddling punctuated by occasional bouts of frantic, crisis-driven change.
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It's a society of knowledge and experience. You have better experience and knowledge when you are 60, 65 and 70.
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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.
