Eileen Collins Quotes
It's just been a wild ride. We've finally been able to put the icing on the cake with this mission.
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The mission of the press is to spread culture while destroying the attention span.
Karl Kraus
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If you get labeled a winner, people come along for the ride. Might as well enjoy it and they should too.
Barbara Corcoran
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I think my mission, if I could call it that, as a storyteller is to try and find ways to show how similar we are and not how different we are.
Taylor Sheridan
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I'm in semi-retirement, but what am I going to retire to? I don't ride horses, I don't golf anymore. I shoot a game of pool every now and then.
Pat Morita
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Some people like just sitting down and being taken for a ride. That's a beautiful thing that fiction can do. But it's not the only thing. In television and film, people are ready to accept any kind of jump cut, but the slightest disturbance on the page ruffles their feathers.
Zadie Smith
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Dad went to Canada to learn how to fly with the Royal Canadian Air Force. He took me on my first airplane ride, where I could have a hand on the stick.
Wally Schirra
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Holding our own government to account for the use of its power is, in my view, the highest mission of a U.S. news organization.
Barton Gellman
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I was an avid tomboy, and as long as I could ride my bike just as fast, hit the ball just as hard, and catch just as many garter snakes, I was accepted as one of the boys and enjoyed all the perks of superiority.
Tawni O'Dell
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I like the fact that Jack is always wearing a tie except when he's on a mission. I do like it when I get out there and dress up, or dress down, a little bit.
Victor Garber
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When you make art, you get really invested in it. When art happens by accident and you were just along for the ride? It's way more fun.
Patrick Stump Fall Out Boy
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My mission in life is to preserve craftsmanship.
Waris Ahluwalia
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I've had a great ride. I've got no complaints.
Larry King
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I don't have time for the news clippings. I got my own mission.
Nas
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All philosophies, if you ride them home, are nonsense, but some are greater nonsense than others.
Samuel Butler
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Whenever I go on a ride, I'm always thinking of what's wrong with the thing and how it can be improved.
Walt Disney
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Playing for England was one long roller-coaster: some ups and downs, but also quite a few moments when you're not really sure if you're enjoying the ride.
Gary Neville
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I like books that don't give you an easy ride. I like the feeling of discomfort. The sense of being implicated.
Zadie Smith
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When you have a little one, you realize that your only mission in life is to protect this helpless, very sensitive creature. That is your charge. That's primal. I relate to that deeply.
Lake Bell
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I never even thought about being an actor. Somebody asked me if I'd like to learn the craft, and I said, 'Okay.' I was a gymnast in a show at that time, and somebody asked me afterwards one night. I performed as a gymnast for nine years, and then I did acting after that.
Mads Mikkelsen
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There are something like 300 anti-genocide chapters on college campuses around the country. It's bigger than the anti-apartheid movement. There are something like 500 high school chapters devoted to stopping the genocide in Darfur. Evangelicals have joined it. Jewish groups have joined it.
Samantha Power
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I do believe that you have to bring some degree of truth from yourself to the role Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street in and I'll admit it here, I have shaved a grown man before. I have done it. And it wasn't Tim Burton.
Johnny Depp
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The arts can bring the heart to the aid of the head, the personal to the political.
Scilla Elworthy
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It's just been a wild ride. We've finally been able to put the icing on the cake with this mission.
Eileen Collins