Eddie Rickenbacker Quotes
When I was racing, I had learned that you can't set stock in public adoration or your press clippings. By the time I was 26, I'd heard crowds of 100,000 scream my name, but a week later they couldn't remember who I was. You're a hero today and a bum tomorrow - hero to zero, I sometimes say.
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I actually spend very little time listening to any new music.
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In hospital, people should be able to have time to themselves.
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A hero cannot be a hero unless in a heroic world.
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Remember, a dead fish can float downstream, but it takes a live one to swim upstream.
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There is no room for Christians in today's Democratic Party.
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Our health-care morass is like the problems of global warming and the national debt - the kind of vast policy failure that is far easier to get into than to get out of. Americans say that they want leaders who will take on these problems.
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When I was racing, I had learned that you can't set stock in public adoration or your press clippings. By the time I was 26, I'd heard crowds of 100,000 scream my name, but a week later they couldn't remember who I was. You're a hero today and a bum tomorrow - hero to zero, I sometimes say.
