Wilbur Wright Quotes
I confess that in 1901 I said to my brother Orville that man would not fly for fifty years.
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Anonymity breeds meanness.
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I wish more people felt that photography was an adventure the same as life itself and felt that their individual feelings were worth expressing. To me, that makes photography more exciting.
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Your man Daddy Yankee, some black and white people who know what's going on in the 'hood and the clubs are supporting him and loving him. But he's speaking Spanish, and he's speaking directly to the Latino people, and the people who know the language really dig it.
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The first two books that I did by myself were long stories in verse. I knew I could do that because I'd written a lot in verse. But, verse stories are hard to sell, so my editor encouraged me to try writing in prose.
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Many ribosomes act simultaneously along the mRNA, forming superstructures called polysomes.
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My mother was 45 when she had me, so when I was in high school my parents were the same age as my friends' grandparents.
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Sectarian divide has created a schism in our society that is a major challenge. As monarch of all Bahrainis, it pains me to see many harmed by the actions of a few. And yet I am optimistic and have faith in our people. We all realize that now is the time to strike a balance between stability and gradual reform.
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I saw Islam as the correct way to live, and I chose to try to live that way.
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when the bank calls: 'Chase Bank, I'm self-employed, how long do you want to stay on the phone?'
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Yahoo is free, it's fast and it's Web-centric. AOL is slow, it costs money and requires proprietary software.
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If I'm laughing, you know I'm either very happy or very sad. I cope with things with jokes.
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In many ways, Viv and I were the only ones who were really songwriters.
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My constituents want me to be outspoken - it's part of the reason they elected me - and the inevitable side effect of being outspoken is that, occasionally, you put your foot in your mouth.
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I wanted to have a political career. I thought studying political science would be the best way to achieve it.
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Lucky individuals in each generation find technology appropriate to their needs.
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I'm aware that people see me as a sex symbol. But I know I can act.
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I drive a different car every night.
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I'm not trying to be the highest-paid receiver in the National Football League. I've never received that, and that's not ever going to happen. So I'm fine with what I have, I make good money, and I'm happy about it.
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When you're a writer you no longer see things with the freshness of the normal person. There are always two figures that work inside you.
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It seems to me that the novel is very much alive as a form. Without any question, every epoch has its own forms, and the novel nowadays cannot resemble that of the nineteenth century. In this domain all experiments are justified, and it is better to write something new clumsily than to repeat the old brilliantly. In the nineteenth century, novels dealt with the fate of a person or of a family; this was linked to life in that period. In our time the destinies of people are interwoven. Whether man recognizes it or not, his fate is much more linked to that of many other people than it used to be.
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It always seems to the brothers and the father that their brother or son didn't marry the right person.
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I want to do something that is unique, that has its own legs. But it's very hard because if you start veering off, if you get too crazy, then people won't know what to make of it. I want to please my audience, too. I want people to like what I do.
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I confess that in 1901 I said to my brother Orville that man would not fly for fifty years.
