Eddie Rickenbacker Quotes
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I have always believed the iron rule of politics was that women don't vote for men who yell.
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The next step for me with the Up is how it talks with the rest of the home. It's an object that can tell the home where I am and what I'm doing.
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I like to do everything myself - I'm very hands-on with my housekeeping, my children, travelling, how I do things.
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I don't think in words; I think in pictures, in images.
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No one familiar with the common law of England can read the Constitution of the United States without observing the great desire of the Convention which framed that instrument to make it conform as far as possible with that law.
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How often I found where I should be going only by setting out for somewhere else.
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If I wasn't five-foot, I wouldn't be who I am! My size is a huge part of me.
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In high school and college, I did not have any Christian friends except my best friend Sarah, who I actually 'brought to Jesus.'
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I created something that became a phenomenon without becoming a prisoner to it.
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Depth on different levels is so important to me. You look at a band like The Beatles, all their material has so much depth to it. And I want people to be able to run away with my melodies and get lost in them and take the lyrics and be able to relate to them.
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As a model, I really stand for not being a model, if that makes sense. When I started, the whole idea of the model was very different; it was a bit stuck-up. Not stuck-up, but no one was trying to have fun, or not even have fun, but be willing to smile.
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Usually, English personalities are difficult; they don't take criticism easily.
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My parents gave me the easy option that if you're going to go your way, that's the highway. You can expect no funds and no support, which I think was legitimate; that was a fair option.
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I got into television, and I'm a television guy, so I've never really had a movie career.
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In private, I'm a hippie who follows Buddhism, does yoga, meditates and loves to dance wildly.
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Seriously, I do a lot of yoga, so I'm in control of my body.
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The second trial was a fair trial. I do not call it a second trial. I call it a fair trial, as opposed to the first trial, which was an unfair trial, a Roman holiday.
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Reaching the height of 6 ft. 5 in.; I never expected to be that tall. I just shot up.
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Mumbai may not be my city. But it is my kind of city.
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People do that sometimes. Change.
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I've worked with homeless kids, kids in foster care, and I've never met a kid who couldn't be reached.
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They criticize me for harping on the obvious; if all the folks in the United States would do the few simple things they know they ought to do, most of our big problems would take care of themselves.
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I know that my tendency is to be linear, and I'm trying to find ways to subvert that. And so in 'Bellocq's Ophelia' my device for subverting it was to tell the story and then to tell it again; it always circles back to this one moment, and it's not linear, but it's round in that way, and much of 'Native Guard' is like that.
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Never count on the crowd to take care of you.
