Wilbur Wright Quotes
The fact that the great scientist believed in flying machines was the one thing that encouraged us to begin our studies.
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As kids, we spontaneously sing and dance and tell stories, and along the way, someone comes and says, 'No. You shouldn't be doing that.' And we slowly begin to unlearn our passions. I think you have to hold on to those things.
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I pack on mass quickly when I lift.
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I try to listen to my children. I try to change with my children.
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It's nice to work with your own alma mater.
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If they can't do it in California, it can't be done anywhere.
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You can blame my mom for some of my worst fashion moments. She used to dress me and my sister in a lot of patterns. Like, she would put me in striped stockings with a floral dress. Like, why are you doing that to me?
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He had no failings which were not owing to a noble cause; to an ardent, generous, perhaps an immoderate passion for fame; a passion which is the instinct of all great souls.
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I used to have a very difficult childhood because I was always the tallest girl in school, and everybody was staring at me and saying, 'You are very different.' Now, different is good.
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I believe that with the help of foreign countries - and under that condition only, because they have no other source of financing - the new government may temporarily extricate Georgia from the current situation.
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I love Comme des Garcons. I think everything she touches is almost like gold. And she does it so quietly. No branding.
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Lots of TV shows say that they are like doing a movie every week, but 'JAG' truly was a huge show. Lots of once-in-a-lifetime opportunities, like being launched off an aircraft carrier and being welcomed by military bases all over California.
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When candidates have asked me for support before, they have asked for more than a check.
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For if the honour paid to Him is shared by others, He altogether ceases to be worshipped, since His religion requires us to believe that He is the one and only God.
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Luckily, I'm in a band with two other guys who really pull their own weight and have the skills and abilities to compensate for my weaknesses.
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There are checks and balances and broad separation of powers under the Constitution. Each organ of the State, i.e. the legislature, the executive and the judiciary, must have respect for the others and not encroach into each other's domain.
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Wit is cultured insolence.
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I am so territorial, that [from the start] I just felt like whatever I was gonna do I was gonna write it myself, its my personal preference to always be in control of everything I do in life.
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Repeat nothing - absolutely nothing - that is told you in confidence. There is no such thing as telling just one person.
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It is with artworks as it is with wine: it is much better when we do not need either one, when we stick with water, and when out of our own inner fire, the inner sweetness of our own soul, we turn the water over and over again into wine ourselves.
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Southerners ask intimate questions in the way monkeys groom each other for lice, not to pry but to make you feel cared for.
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It is vain and useless to survey everything that goes on in the world if our study does not help us mend our ways.
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Far from being magisterial in its objectivity, science was conditioned by history, society, and the prejudices of scientists.
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The fact that the great scientist believed in flying machines was the one thing that encouraged us to begin our studies.
