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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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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There is no such thing as an accident, only a failure to recognise the hand of fate.
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I don't root for either team, but in the end, I have to be happy for Dan and the way he's building that program. They continue to make improvements. I'm sure this is a big step for them.
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School was the unhappiest time of my life and the worst trick it ever played on me was to pretend that it was the world in miniature. For it hindered me from discovering how lovely and delightful and kind the world can be, and how much of it is intelligible.
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One thing I can't stand is late kidnappers.
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A lie is like a cat: you need to stop it before it gets out the door or it’s really hard to catch.
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I wanted to apply to the astronaut program after the Challenger accident.
