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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I have Chinese blood in me... I am not ashamed to admit that perhaps the great leaders of our country all have Chinese blood.
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I think there is a real thing going on where writers are feeling more liberated to write with a big canvas because of a demonstrable, continued appetite for long-form storytelling.
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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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As an individual, not as the boss of a company, I am very interested in motor racing.
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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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It took a while for anyone to want to publish 'To Repel Ghosts.' I thought people would want to publish a three-hundred-and-fifty-page book about a dead painter, but they didn't.
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I was trying to develop a completely new, nonvoyeuristic approach to the female body as something other than a visual object. I wanted to find out what happened when you leave behind the voyeuristic mode and confront people with reality. But that's what was so interesting for me to discover: People don't want to see reality. It's a pretty simple idea, really, this question of how we deal with reality. When something is constructed, when it's projected onto a screen, it's acceptable, but it's different when it's there in front of you in a public space.
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Love, safety, belongingness and respect from other people are almost panaceas for the situational disturbances and even for some of the mild character disturbances.
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One does not love a place the less for having suffered in it, unless it has been all suffering, nothing but suffering.
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I confess that in 1901 I said to my brother Orville that man would not fly for fifty years.
