Hanna Reitsch Quotes
Professor Focke and his technicians standing below grew ever smaller as I continued to rise straight up, 50 metres, 75 metres, 100 metres. Then I gently began to throttle back and the speed of ascent dwindled till I was hovering motionless in midair. This was intoxicating! I thought of the lark, so light and small of wing, hovering over the summer fields. Now man had wrested from him his lovely secret.
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There's certain things as a songwriter that I don't really care to write about, and there are certain things I won't sing about anymore. There are just so many things that I probably thought was OK for me, or have been in the past, that I would never want my son to think was OK.
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Maybe if I'd had more direct contact with death, I wouldn't find it so fascinating and I wouldn't write about it so much.
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I want to reach the heights of stardom beyond my imagination.
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Acknowledging your mistakes also has its pluses, but we often don't have trouble recalling or mulling over those. The point is, if you don't acknowledge your successes the same way you acknowledge your mistakes, you're sure to have a memory full of blunders.
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Golf, like measles, should be caught young.
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I'm not comparing myself to Bobby Kennedy by any stretch, but he was opposed by the liberal establishment, too. Eleanor Roosevelt was the biggest opponent to him running.
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I was timid and frightened as a child. Yours truly did not shin up mountains or do any other kind of adventurous stuff.
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Nature has left this tincture in the blood, That all men would be tyrants if they could.
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Satire doesn't effect change.
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Belief in the absence of illusions is itself an illusion.
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Since no one but you can know what's best for you, government control can't make your life better.
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I'm an actor and it happened to go my way that day.
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Jane Campion is a tough director.
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I was a theater geek, and I was a surly cheerleader, and that's really kind of a contradiction.
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Those who would trade in their freedom For their protection deserve neither
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'Who are you? Nobody. Who is Porridge? THE MOST IMPORTANT PERSON THERE IS.'
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God is personal, but personal in an incomprehensible way, in so far as the conception of his personality surpasses all our views of personality.
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When I was younger, I wanted my hair to look like Molly Ringwald's.
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Honestly, a lot of pop records have beatboxing. Timbaland beatboxes on his tracks. Justin Timberlake beatboxes.
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So many people are of mixed heritage; everyone is from somewhere else.
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Literature is my life of course, but from an ontological point of view. From an existential point of view, I like being a teacher.
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To recognize untruth as a condition of life--that certainly means resisting accustomed value feelings in a dangerous way; and a philosophy that risks this would by that token alone place itself beyond good and evil.
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Yes, for my undergrad I majored in Criminal Justice and minored in Political Science and English.
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Professor Focke and his technicians standing below grew ever smaller as I continued to rise straight up, 50 metres, 75 metres, 100 metres. Then I gently began to throttle back and the speed of ascent dwindled till I was hovering motionless in midair. This was intoxicating! I thought of the lark, so light and small of wing, hovering over the summer fields. Now man had wrested from him his lovely secret.
