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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Have you learned the lessons only of those who admired you, and were tender with you, and stood aside for you? Have you not learned great lessons from those who braced themselves against you, and disputed passage with you?
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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 never intended for the Monster Ball to be a religious experience, it just became one.
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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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After the Soviet Union collapsed, people thought I wasn't funny anymore.
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McCarthy emerged in the person of Senator Russ Feingold of Wisconsin.
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The thing about the max is, you're worth whatever somebody is willing to pay you, in my mind.
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Today I see beauty everywhere I go, in every face I see, in every single soul.
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One of the highest of human duties is the duty of encouragement...It is easy to laugh at men's ideals; it is easy to pour cold water on their enthusiasm; it is easy to discourage others. The world is full of discouragers. We have a Christian duty to encourage one another. Many a time a word of praise or thanks or appreciation or cheer has kept a man on his feet. Blessed is the man who speaks such a word.
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I want to see America set the example to the world both in our domestic and foreign relations of magnanimity.
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It is hard for me to understand I am on television and people around the world watch me every week in a country I have never even been to.
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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.
