Eileen Collins Quotes
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It never occurred to me that we would have as grandiose a program as the Marshall Plan, but I felt that we had to do something to save Europe from economic disaster which would encourage the Communist takeover.
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I could program the VCR when I was really young.
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I don't think you ever really decide that you want to be an astronaut. I put in an application and hoped for the best.
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I learned to fire guns at the age of nine or so, but luckily was not out killing people. We zigzagged the streets to escape those trying to kill us. I guess it would have been a matter of time till I turned around with a gun myself, to go after those coming for us. But I was fortunate. The grenade incident was about an explosion which destroyed a section of my school, from a grenade that me and my cousin detonated by accident. We both lived to tell about it.
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As in the case of California, the wolf is at the door of America and the present administration acts as if it's a pussycat. America cannot maintain the present entitlement programs and support a government this size and keep on living on a credit card.
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We're excited to have Brandon here. We think he'll add something to our program. He's a gifted receiver.
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We are reasserting congressional responsibility and oversight with respect to this program.
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It is much easier to drive without having an accident.
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'Music Hop' in 1963 was my first hosting job of a variety program.
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I can not imagine my life if I didn't have a music program in my school.
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Astronomy leads us to a unique event, a universe which was created out of nothing, and delicately balanced to provide exactly the conditions required to support life. In the absence of an absurdly improbable accident, the observations of modern science seem to suggest an underlying, one might say, supernatural plan.
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The things he did on purpose were usually no different from the mistakes he made by accident.
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Much of America is now in need of an equivalent of Mrs. Thatcher's privatization program in 1980s Britain, or post-Soviet Eastern Europe's economic liberalization in the early Nineties. It's hard to close down government bodies, but it should be possible to sell them off. And a side benefit to outsourcing the Bureau of Government Agencies and the Agency of Government Bureaus is that you'd also be privatizing public-sector unions, which are the biggest and most direct assault on freedom, civic integrity, and fiscal solvency.
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The messiness cannot go into the program; it piles up around the programmer.
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I was somehow able to block it out and pull myself together for the rest of the program. But it just wasn't my night.
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A year ago I had a back injury and followed a good nutrition program to help speed up my recovery. I focused on exercise and staying healthy in order to get back out on the ice.
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I never did anything worth doing by accident, nor did any of my inventions come indirectly through accident, except the phonograph.
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I had a major in business, and I graduated with a business degree, but I was perhaps the worst student to graduate from that program.
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The words of genius have a wider meaning than the thought that prompted them.
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He is already past the high point in his life and coming down on the other side. By next week he'll be nostalgia. He's 12 years old, and it's over for him.
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It is difficult to make a man miserable while he feels worthy of himself and claims kindred to the great God who made him.
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For preserving peace of soul, it is also necessary to avoid judging others.
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I've been going to shopping malls since I was on General Hospital.
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I wanted to apply to the astronaut program after the Challenger accident.
