Eddie Rickenbacker Quotes
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I think people are always able to achieve more than they think they can. While that's cliche, I don't know if managers think about that enough. You have to set your sights extremely high.
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I don't know how much the economy has changed since Jonathan Swift's 'A Modest Proposal.'
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Nashville is the place where I first realized how impossible it is to look at someone and know what is inside them, what special something they possess.
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You've achieved success in your field when you don't know whether what you're doing is work or play.
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I think the older I get the more creative I get, I don't have the distractions that I had when I was younger.
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One of my thoughts on the back nine was 'I don't know how Tiger has won 14 of these things,' I couldn't feel my legs on the back nine.
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Some of the most fun people I know are scientists.
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I would love to do a period movie. I've always wanted to wear the corset, you know. It's a girl thing!
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The more I read about feeding times, sleep times and waking-up times, the more inadequate and miserable I felt.
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You still think we can go out there, and we can all run the mile in four minutes, you know, your mind still thinks that, but then you go out and actually try to do it, it's kind of scary.
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If there is any way you can get colder than you do when you sleep in a bedding roll on the ground in a tent in southern Tunisia two hours before dawn, I don't know about it.
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It is obvious that the monetary union among 17 very different European countries does not work. As an economist, I know that the Eurozone is not an optimum currency area, as defined in economic theory.
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You well know, sir, that when the Constitution was submitted to the People of the respective States for their adoption or rejection, it awakened the warmest debates of the several State conventions.
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We all know guys who've had their hearts broken in real life; we just don't usually see it in the movies.
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I know how to make a record that commercial radio or Triple J will smash now... It's kind of hard to stay true and write what you would write if you didn't have that in your head. Because I know I can get way more airplay and get this much bigger... and that's what I'm trying to avoid doing. Trying to avoid the poisons of success.
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Lenin, the greatest theorist of them all, did not know what he was going to do after he had got the power.
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I know how ridiculous this sounds because of the job I do but I don't believe in romanticism and make-believe.
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Finally, in my critique of the immigration image of America, it is also important to know that we're not only a nation of immigrants, but we are in some part a nation of emigrants, which often gets neglected.
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We know about the socially complex lives of elephants: how they communicate, how they bond, how they even seem to grieve. We have ethologists in the field and activists on the ground to thank for that knowledge.
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I remember my first visit with my guru. He had shown that he read my mind. So I looked at the grass and I thought, 'My god, he's going to know all the things I don't want people to know.' I was really embarrassed. Then I looked up and he was looking directly at me with unconditional love.
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I was swept by the narrative structure of film... you can create a world, you can destroy it, you can do what you want with it and serve it to people just the way you like.
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The Oscars are really nice, but the best part is that I had the opportunity to do that kind of work.
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I'm never satisfied, man. I'm Virgo. We overanalyze and we're never satisfied. So I'm gonna keep going 'til the wheels fall off.
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I've cheated the Grim Reaper more times than anyone I know.
