William Langewiesche Quotes
The mastery of the turn is the story of how aviation became practical as a means of transportation. It is the story of how the world became small.
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Progress, real progress, makes me cry harder than anything. When the world itself grows.
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Nonviolent tactics can move into action on our behalf men not naturally inclined to act for us.
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Parodies of commercials are by no means new and have been popular going back to black-and-white TV shows of the '50s.
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My mind boggles at the amount of violence inflicted upon children in today's society.
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I don't know how to make Harper and Alloy want me, not just my name.
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I don't live by all these rigid, weird rules that make me feel all fenced in. I just like the way that I feel like, and that makes me feel very free.
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After the 9/11 incidents, Islam has become a big question mark among westerners, especially Americans. The mass media constantly raise the issue of relationship between Islam and terrorism.
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I was trying to manage school and training for the Olympics and ended up not doing well at either. That was a big lesson in my life. My mother expected both.
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I think of myself as a performance artist. I hate being called a pop star. I hate that.
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When we look around the world today, when we see in Afghanistan that 10 million people have registered to vote in their upcoming elections, including 40 percent of those people are women, that's just unbelievable.
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Give news a little more time, and don't request that they also, in their news time, entertain. We're not entertainers. We're journalists. And we need more time to do our job well.
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If you only believe that you're an artist when you have a big advance in your pocket and a single coming out, I would say that's quite soulless. You have to have a sense of your own greatness and your own ability from a very deep place inside you. I am the one with the litmus test in my hands of what people need to hear next.
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I'm not the kind of actress that goes home with the character. I mean, you're thinking about the work or the next day's scenes, but not staying in character. But as a film goes on, you become more and more fragile, emotionally. And physically too, actually.
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Where the stakes are the highest, in the war on terror, we cannot possibly succeed without extraordinary international cooperation. Effective international police actions require the highest degree of intelligence sharing, planning and collaborative enforcement.
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McCarthy emerged in the person of Senator Russ Feingold of Wisconsin.
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Education should be totally secular. I am not telling people not to believe in God, but it should be a personal matter which should be done at home.
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I wasn't a great debater.
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I believe in looking reality straight in the eye and denying it.
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In surveys, many borrowers say reverse mortgages have improved their lives and provided money they needed for retirement.
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Jewelry, to me, is a pain in the derriere, because you have to be watching it all the time.
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That’s it?” Jason asked. “You spent an hour talking about how lucky you were to be dying?” No, not dying, Son. Living.
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There is no danger to the man that knowsWhat life and death is; there's not any lawExceeds his knowledge; neither is it lawfulThat he should stoop to any other law.He goes before them, and commands them all,That to himself is a law rational.
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They say that vegetable food is not sufficiently nutritious. But chemistry proves the contrary. So does physiology. So does experience....And again: the largest and strongest animals in the world are those which eat no flesh-food of any kind - the elephant and the rhinoceros.
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The mastery of the turn is the story of how aviation became practical as a means of transportation. It is the story of how the world became small.
