Eileen Collins Quotes
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Like everything which is not the involuntary result of fleeting emotion but the creation of time and will, any marriage, happy or unhappy, is infinitely more interesting than any romance, however passionate.
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Nobody goes there anymore. It's too crowded.
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Fallout shelters are like bell-bottoms. They've gone in and out of favor.
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I would think about the outcome. Visualize sometimes. Because it never comes out the way you want it to. Fight the way I know how to fight. Whatever comes up, comes up.
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My problem was my inability to spend much time at home. I thought my family was secure, so I went running around everyplace else. I guess I had more of an effect on other people's kids than I did my own.
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I like it when I am in the middle; I am closer to the ball. The manager wants me to pass, to make assists, create chances, and I do more because I think the position is more central, and I don't ask all the time for the ball at my feet.
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Any powerful technology can be abused.
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I can't figure out how you can draft players for a coach that you know coaches a certain a style, and was successful doing that style, and get him to play a style that you feel comfortable with.
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I am a very active audience member. I want to be moved. I want to be confronted. I want to feel.
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Arguments are extremely vulgar, for everyone in good society holds exactly the same opinion.
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A funny thing happens in real estate. When it comes back, it comes back up like gangbusters.
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I have my hopes, & very distinct ones, too, of one day getting cerebral phenomena such that I can put them into mathematical equations: in short, a law or laws for the mutual actions of the molecules of the brain (equivalent to the law of gravitation for the planetary & sideral world).
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I came, I studied architecture in America, so my technical background's completely western. But my seventeen years, the formative years of one's life, and I can't say that the Chineseness in me is not there.
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Do send out a newsletter when you have a new book out or are going on tour. Also list relevant event dates and notifications of contests you are running.
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The ability to simplify means to eliminate the unnecessary so that the necessary may speak.
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I'm not really into movies on dates because you can't chat it up.
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I think we all have had better days in competition.
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Economic disasters or foolish wars are hardly guaranteed to bring about large-scale individual self-examination or renew the appeal of truly participatory democracy.
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New markets could be created by rural potentials, which could lead to rise in the employment.
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Strenuously competitive parents may indeed produce high-achieving grownups, but it’s in the nature of things that high-achieving adults are likely to become frustrated and embittered old people, once the rug is pulled out from under their occupation.
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I don't mind being 65, but nobody is gonna tell me to come in at 5:30 to have the early bird special.
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Mass man is a phenomenon of electric speed, not of physical quantity.
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You've got to forget about this civilian. Whenever you drop bombs, you're going to hit civilians.
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This is a wonderful moment for all of us to experience.
