Amelia Earhart Quotes
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Of course, I have given my engineers some headaches over the years, but they go with me. I have always wanted my buildings to be as light as possible, to touch the ground gently, to swoop and soar, and to surprise.
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One of the side benefits of staying in the closet is you can have a much bigger career.
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That's my opportunity to hide behind that old lady and say what I want to say.
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As long as my sixth graders showed an average improvement of five years, the principal and district pretty much left me alone to create my own curriculum and teach whatever I wanted.
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Possessions. The very word is potent - suggestive as it is of ownership both material and erotic. To possess. Possession. Possessed.
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I am upset and completely disappointed in the government, the millionaires and billionaires in the U.S. See what's happening to the country? Look at all the health problems, the economy, the recession and crime.
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I don't think I've ever been chatted up, and I don't think I've ever chatted anyone up. The Fresh Prince has the best chat-up lines.
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Of our relation to all creation we can never know anything whatsoever. All is immensity and chaos. But, since all this knowledge of our limitations cannot possibly be of any value to us, it is better to ignore it in our daily conduct of life.
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I used to a lot. I used to go dancing.
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I wish I could just be in the movies and still enjoy everything else like a normal person.
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I don't like pretentious films or pretentious people.
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This much we know: Journalism is not a precise science. It's, on its best day, is a crude art. We make mistakes; I make mistakes. With more than 50 years as a journalist, I have at least had the opportunity to blow more stories, make more mistakes than maybe anybody in television.
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A gentleman is one who never hurts anyone's feelings unintentionally.
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Reconciliation is a national decision that has to be debated and a consensus made among Colombians.
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Stronger families. Stronger communities. A stronger America. It is this kind of prosperity - broad, shared, built on a thriving middle class - that has always been the source of our progress at home. It’s also the foundation of our power and influence throughout the world.
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If out of reading this book you get just one thing-an increased tendency to think always in terms of other people’s point of view, and see things from their angle-if you get that one thing out of this book, it may easily prove to be one of the building blocks of your career.
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What we have to do is to be forever curiously testing new opinions and courting new impressions.
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Material existence is entirely founded on a phantom realm of mind, whose nature and geography are unexplored.
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Mobility was a factor, ... We thought that if (McMahon) got into trouble, he could gain some yards with his feet. ... He did a good job. I have not had a chance to talk to the coaches and the players about it so I am not going to say something here.
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The origins of my career as a peace mediator can be found from my childhood years. I was born in the city of Viipuri, then still part of Finland. We lost Viipuri when the Soviet Union attacked my country. Along with 400,000 fellow Karelians, I became an eternally displaced person in the rest of Finland.
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Christians... get Christmas under control. Seriously. It won't stop! It doesn't stop, does it? It's always Christmas now! Make it the whole year! It's the only time you pricks are happy!
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It is essential to release humanity from the false fixations of yesterday which seem now to bind it to a rationale of action leading only to extinction.
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Music infuses your spirit with a certain energy that I try to convey in my work.
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Courage is the price that life exacts for granting peace.
