Eileen Collins Quotes
She was praying for us -- everybody was praying for us. That's another reason I knew we were safe.
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The only reason that it takes me seven years to do stuff is because I just don't really have a plan.
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I hate jeans for no reason.
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There's a reason you can still read Thucydides, and it still makes sense to you thousands of years later.
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My dad was a doctor, but he was just always, like, going from hospital to hospital for some reason.
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The reason I call my book 'Irreverent' is because there were a lot of pictures that were very irreverent. Maybe I could call my book 'Forgiving' because maybe I made a lot of errors, too.
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No, I've been singing forever. I started out doing musicals. I think that was part of the reason why they gave me the part, because I sang.
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There is no reason for me to show my collection in New York, because it's not about craft and technique there.
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Brick walls are there for a reason. The brick walls aren't there to keep us out. The brick walls are there to show us how badly we want things.
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For it is extremely absurd to expect to be enlightened by reason, and yet to prescribe to her beforehand on which side she must incline.
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I am not at all computer literate in real life. I haven't yet found a reason to be. Once I find a reason why I need to be on the Internet, then I will be.
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I thought, can you think of any really good reason not to do it? Except that, oh, I'm so shy, or oh, my private life, or oh, are they going to find out how boring I am? You know? And that was the only reason now, in a sense, not to do television. Because it certainly is a method of expression, which has to be accepted as these things come along.
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Success comes to those who are willing to launch toward their goals with no guarantees of success - and persist when there is every reason to give up.
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Wars are never fought for one reason," he said. "They are fought for dozens of reasons, in a muddle.
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The reason we all like to think so well of others is that we are all afraid for ourselves. The basis of optimism is sheer terror.
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Mexico is a safe, as well as a beautiful and warmly gracious, place to visit.
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The reason man may become the master of his own destiny is because he has the power to influence his own subconscious mind.
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The enjoyment of power inevitably corrupts the judgment of reason, and perverts its liberty.
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Fear is never a reason for quitting; it is only an excuse.
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When I began writing in the mid-1960s, I thought it was not important for readers to know whether I was male or female. Also, I was a great admirer of E.B. White, so I may have thought that it would bring me luck to submit my first manuscript as 'E.L.' But if I were starting out today, I would use my first name.
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I thought I might say something to newsmen that could be turned into a scandal.
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In principle the great religions of the world do not differ as much as they appear to.
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She was praying for us -- everybody was praying for us. That's another reason I knew we were safe.
