Eileen Collins Quotes
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Islam means peace.
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It's a shame in a way that people come and go with one album.
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Retiring for good wasn't difficult. I knew at the time it was right. I was no longer capable of achieving the standards I'd set myself and there was no light at the end of the tunnel.
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When you cease to dream you cease to live.
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I talk about life, and I make universal music with an American style - and that's what I do.
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I throw a spear into the darkness. That is intuition. Then I must send an army into the darkness to find the spear. That is intellect.
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I told myself, 'I am teaching entrepreneurship, so I should be an entrepreneur myself.'
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I still love physical product. I still hold out for actual CDs, because in radio, everyone just wants to send you a file to play.
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I want to live my life naked, with all my little naked kids naked in the garden.
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If you're an independent voter, I'm willing to bet that you were not too happy at the prospect of hitting the polls on November 8, 2016. But let me guess – you did it anyway because after all, it's your civic duty, right?
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The president of the United States is not a king. You know? Barack Obama was elected by the American people.
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Well concerning the world records that I did, I think it helps a lot to me, yeah. I think it's a very individual thing because I heard some people say, like, oh I don't like it at all. But I definitely, for me it really made a big difference.
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My passion for ideas is not matched with a passion for partisan or electoral politics.
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I've lived a charmed life. I married the only girl I ever loved and did the only job I ever loved.
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I've started doing yoga and meditation, but I'm not very good at that kind of thing and turning my brain off.
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Look, there's no metaphysics on earth like chocolates.
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It is better to live rich than to die rich.
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A million years went by quick.
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In Paris, I quickly mastered the Foxtrot, the Shimmy and the One Step, he liked the Shimmy best: At first, the heel-toe was sort of tricky. Nowadays, they find ways around it.
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I have come to an odd belief, which is that we don't make decisions so much as the decisions make us. The goal of a decision isn't just to find the path forward, but to become someone entirely different than who we might have been as a function of the path we take.
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To those of us who often procrastinate on the decision we feel intimidated by lack of education or any area of weakness. I relieve you with this statement: It is not how much you know that arms you with the tools of great decision making, but rather how much you ask. Ask questions.
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'Mais est-ce qu'il ne vient jamais à l'idée de ces gens-là que je peux être 'artificiel' par nature?'
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We made the best decision based on what we knew at the time.
