Eileen Collins Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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I remember the moon landings, and Apollo was the paradigm by which all progress was measured at that time. And I knew that creating a true space-faring civilization was both possible and practical. What I failed to realize was that the effort would fail due to bureaucratic inertia and political apathy.
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Any manager can do well in an expanding market.
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As a team, we have a lot of work ahead of us in FY16 and beyond, but I am confident that, working together, we will make Microsoft a leader in the mobile-first, cloud-first world.
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Women are not all single-issue voters.
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Men weren't always happy for me. It was very challenging to watch a woman be so successful.
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It's the good girls who keep diaries; the bad girls never have the time.
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I had the benefit of watching good people show me what it really is to be an actor – the day in and day out of it.
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I'm easy to hate. I get it.
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I pick and choose my battles, but I overthink everything because I have to think about everything.
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Bragging about yourself violates norms of modesty and politeness - and if you were really competent, your work would speak for itself.
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All of a sudden to get all of this attention, and to be away from home and working all the time was hard. I was on planes all the time. I didn't see my friends. I cried a lot. It was quite terrifying.
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I like to read, even though it was really tough, because I could go anywhere in the world in a book, and I could have so many adventures in a book.
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So if I keep making mistakes on Broadway or tape or film, producing, directing or acting, I can go along and do it - so long as I'm not investing too much capital in these things.
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My parents are music fans, even though neither of them play an instrument. I was exposed to their record collection, so I love everything from Joni Mitchell to Bruce Springsteen.
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The scab is a traitor to his God, his mother, and his class.
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I always believe that one can't interfere in another's work. Once I start work on any film, I surrender myself completely and blindly follow the director.
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Mostly for social media, Twitter or Instagram becomes so much more fun when you can be boastful and say whatever you want. You can be so full of yourself and ridiculous when you're a heel.
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Sales are contingent upon the attitude of the salesman - not the attitude of the prospect.
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I just want the fans to be happy, and if they're happy, I'm happy. And yes, most definitely, I am definitely a fan.
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There is a beautiful expression of this in the Chandogya Upanishad: 'There is this City of Brahman, (that is the body), and in this city there is a shrine, and in that shrine there is a small lotus, and in that lotus there is a small space, (akasa). Now what exists within that small space, that is to be sought, that is to be understood.' This is the great discovery of the Upanishads, this inner shrine, this guha, or cave of the heart, where the inner meaning of life, of all human existence, is to be found.
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Anything that can unambiguously represent two values - while resisting, just a wee bit, randomly flipping from the state you want retained into the opposite state - can encode binary data.
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Sheik Hilaly is making a good contribution. He is making a good contribution.
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The loss of a job may be the wake up-call needed to redeem the fire of your genius.
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Houston, Discovery, wheels are down. We're all happy to be back again.
