Alexander P. de Seversky Quotes
Air power speaks a strategic language so new that translation into the hackneyed idiom of the past is impossible.
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The whole of our national sport is not doing very well.
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I wrote my first book when I was 15 years old. And my second book '1,2,3 Publish Me!' shows everyone how writing a book is done in just the three secret editing levels I discovered!
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There are four ways, and only four ways, in which we have contact with the world. We are evaluated and classified by these four contacts: what we do, how we look, what we say, and how we say it.
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The communication of the dead is tongued with fire beyond the language of the living.
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I threw a lot of balls and walked a lot of batters. Not something I'm proud of, but something I learned from.
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If you were to come to the set of Alias, you'd know how silly we all are. And I mean, silly.
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Everyone is just nicer to prettier people.
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I never felt like I had a mother.
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China's government is so strong on investment, so strong on exporting, but they're too weak on domestic consumption.
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I don't go to the gym because I don't have time, but I do Pilates workout DVDs for 20 minutes or more every day at home.
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I have great respect for the semicolon; it is a mighty handy little fellow.
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Sometimes one succeeds, sometimes one fails.
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I would like to get a good education, get married, and have kids.
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On bad days, I think I'd like to be a plastic surgeon who goes to Third World countries and operates on children in villages with airlifts, and then I think, 'Yeah, right, I'm going to go back to undergraduate school and take all the biology I missed and then go to medical school.' No. No.
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I like America. I don't want to hurt America.
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Society has not been set up in a way that allows women to go back to work after taking time off. Many women now have to work as well as do everything at home and no one can do everything. Society needs to find a way of relieving women.
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Life doesn't care about your vision. Stuff happens, and you've just got to deal with it. You roll with it; that's the beauty of it all.
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It’ll be the ballot or it’ll be the bullet. It’ll be liberty or it’ll be death. And if you’re not ready to pay that price don’t use the word freedom in your vocabulary.
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The most important impact on society and the world is the cell phone. Cell phones have actually been one of the primary drivers in productivity improvements.
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How did it happen that now he could see everything so clearly. Something had given him leave to live in the present. Not once in his entire life had he come to rest in the quiet center of himself but had forever cast himself from some dark past he could not remember to a future that did not exist. Not once had he been present for his life. So his life had passed like a dream. Is it possible for people to miss their lives the way one can miss a plane?
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About 13-14 years ago, I went back to my alma mater, Fairfax High School, and ran into the music teacher. She invited me to come speak to the kids about the viability of a music career. When I went into the room where I used to play every day in a big orchestra, they had nothing!
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It is through accomplishment that man makes his contribution and contribution is life's greatest reward.
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Yes, women, and men, have to be open to love, because if we're not open then there's no way for us to find happiness. But you can be open to it and still have no control over when it's going to happen.
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Air power speaks a strategic language so new that translation into the hackneyed idiom of the past is impossible.
