Cornelia Fort Quotes
Any girl who has flown at all grows used to the prejudice of most men pilots who will trot out any number of reasons why women can't possibly be good pilots. . . . The only way to show the disbelievers, the snickering hangar pilots, is to show them.
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Truth in drama is forever elusive. You never quite find it, but the search for it is compulsive. The search is clearly what drives the endeavour. The search is your task.
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I don't miss acting at all.
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I really do inhabit a system in which words are capable of shaking the entire structure of government, where words can prove mightier than ten military divisions.
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We believe that the world, too, can destroy apartheid, firstly by striking at the economy of South Africa.
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I know what I look like - a weird, sad clown puppet. I'm fine with that.
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We deem those happy who from the experience of life have learnt to bear its ills without being overcome by them.
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But my point is these Civil War songs were gruesome. The hatred that's so bad in this country today, and for the past 10 or 15 years, bad as it is, is nothing compared to the kind of things people would write down and sing back in the Civil War.
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I don't want my marriage or my guns registered in Washington. And if people have an opinion, it's a religious opinion that is heartly felt, obviously they should be allowed to practice that, and no government should interfere with them.
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All the skills of housewifery are the ones I'm using as a producer.
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Actually, the language in Shakespeare is wonderfully musical. You need to hear the music to connect with the words.
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The thing about post-traumatic stress disorder, we know about one in five, about 20 percent of individuals that are exposed to a direct traumatic stress will develop this disorder.
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There was no religion in my life growing up. Did God invent us or did we invent God?
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What I love about jazz is that it's full of legends, full of myths. It's an oral history because it started in New Orleans and Kansas City, under the radar.
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I think as a filmmaker one should make all kinds of films. It is not that one should make only one kind of film. I love to see romantic films; I loved watching 'Dilwale Dulhaniya Le Jayenge,' 'Kuch Kuch Hota Hai.' If I make such films, I will make it with my yardstick, according to my parameters.
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Dad always explained the car engine when he repaired it, and he had many technical books, so I was making electromagnets by age eight as well as reading my mother's medical and nursing books. I suspect I was born with a boundless curiosity, and this was encouraged through my childhood.
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In my view, you can't go to the future if you haven't come from the past.
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I don't think that much change comes from economists. I think it comes more from political realities. Probably the two giants of the 20th century, who actually did shift government policy in the U.S. and around the world, were John Maynard Keynes and Milton Friedman. I don't see anybody in our system who is at that level of influence.
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America is about choices, including those to live certain lifestyles.
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The only possible solution which will preserve Germany’s honor and Germany’s interest is, we repeat, a war with Russia.
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If you want to fight against a declining trend, you've got to have a much bigger bazooka.
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Dilip Kumar was the only Bollywood hero who could make a girl shiver just by looking at her. If you don't believe it, ask your mom!
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I try to not be too hard on myself regarding my diet. I've always been a workout-to-eat kind of a girl.
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My education at Baron Byng High School was excellent, with dedicated masters (boys and girls were separate).
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Any girl who has flown at all grows used to the prejudice of most men pilots who will trot out any number of reasons why women can't possibly be good pilots. . . . The only way to show the disbelievers, the snickering hangar pilots, is to show them.
