Orville Wright Quotes
Before leaving for our camp at Kitty Hawk we tested the chain drive for the propellers in our shop at Dayton, and found it satisfactory.
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I don't know what it's like in the U.S. but immigrants in the U.K. do the jobs the citizens won't do.
Eddie Izzard
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I've directed independent film.
Vin Diesel
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The first decent building I did with my own practice was a chapel in Taiwan.
I. M. Pei
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Newspapers are busily experimenting with different models. Traditionally, and I suspect in hindsight very mistakenly, online news was free. And once given free access readers felt it was their entitlement.
Malcolm Turnbull
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An epic is not made by piecing together a set of heroic lays, adjusting their discrepancies and making them into a continuous narrative.
Lascelles Abercrombie
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If Youku had adopted YouTube's business model, we just would not be here. We would not exist.
Victor Koo
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It is typical of women to fester and ferment over disappointments, slights, annoyances, angers, etc.
Laura Schlessinger
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One of the few benefits of being a journalist is that you're not in the Army.
P. J. O'Rourke
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I think people have a hard time thinking that I could've done a sitcom.
Rami Malek
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When I was a kid, I would make these incredibly bloody movies in my back yard. I was constantly making weird blood concoctions; Jell-O and milk was a good one. I was constantly ruining clothes and staining my parents' walls and stuff.
Fran Kranz
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Europe is especially vulnerable to terrorists who may hide among the refugees pouring across its borders.
Naftali Bennett
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I used to play the trombone and the trumpet, which I still have, but I haven't picked up for a long time.
Sam Heughan
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I do my best work if I think about what it is I have to offer.
Barbara Kingsolver
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If any human being is to reach full maturity both the masculine and feminine sides of the personality must be brought up into consciousness.
M. Esther Harding
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Every inch of my writing career has been influenced by my screenwriting education. I was lucky enough to go to film school at USC, and I got a crash course in how to tell a story efficiently. I learned structure, pace, my style, how to know your audience, and most importantly, how to take criticism and edits properly.
Victoria Aveyard
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I'm not really a food connoisseur.
Aasif Mandvi
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I joined the army on my seventeenth birthday, full of the romance of war after having read a lot of World War I British poetry and having seen a lot of post-World War II films. I thought the romantic presentations of war influenced my joining and my presentation of war to my younger siblings.
Walter Dean Myers
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My dad recently reminded me that my grandfather's cousin was Lefty Frizzell.
Parker Posey
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Certainty is usually a sign of pathology.
B. W. Powe
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If in looking at a picture you have been profoundly moved by it, but have not noticed the color or drawing, you may be sure that they are technically perfect.
Auguste Rodin
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I am absolutely convinced that race relations on the whole are actually better now than they were 20 years [ago].
Barack Obama
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Would you really like to live in a society where you have no responsibility and no freedom, no choice, only the false option of obedience to the law, or disobedience followed by punishment? Would you really want to go live in a prison?
Ursula K. Le Guin
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Leaving the house is a big enough occasion for me, so getting on a plane and flying across the world and playing to a room full of people is just out of this world.
Courtney Barnett
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Before leaving for our camp at Kitty Hawk we tested the chain drive for the propellers in our shop at Dayton, and found it satisfactory.
Orville Wright