Eileen Collins Quotes
For many of us it's been four years since we trained for this mission and its been a wonderful experience.
Quotes to Explore
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I was unbelievably lucky.
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Our party never tolerated those who use violence for political ends. Our leaders lost their lives standing against terrorism.
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It's funny: when I set out to create the world of 'California,' I didn't give the type of apocalypse much thought... I simply set my two characters, Cal and Frida, in a depleted world and moved through it intuitively.
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No matter what as an artist that's always what you want to do, you want to connect to the audience, you want to be able to send whatever message it is that you're singing about, you want to be able to convey that - and not make them feel - you want them to feel it, you want them to feel what you feel.
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When I was 5, I wore a tie, and I wanted to change my name to Larry, which probably tipped my parents off that I was gay.
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I always said that you can use the same vehicle although the driver will change, or the same vehicle to go for the race. It's a different driver, this is exactly what's happening to the cabinet.
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May the Lord our God prepare us for every event, then comes Life or Death - it is no great matter.
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Global actions require local and national participation. International cooperation and action requires community perspectives and legitimacy if it is to be effective.
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Friendship needs no words - it is solitude delivered from the anguish of loneliness.
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I love to perform live.
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I would like to do something modern and possibly funny.
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No man was ever great by imitation.
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Will Smith would not be Worldwide Will Smith if he had not insisted on going worldwide and touring with his films. You have to build that audience for people and allow for it to happen.
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I do my work and do the best I can. I'm quite happy with my anonymity. All I can ever hope for is that I continue to do great work that will be remembered, and I leave my imprint so that my son can say proudly, 'That's my dad!'
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My father and brothers were in the military.
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I've cracked my head open before; I've had some great injuries. So I have to do it on the side now. I cracked my head open kiting before a competition in New Caledonia. The water was shallow, and I missed a trick and hit my head on a rock.
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There is no way from us to God - not even via negativa not even a via dialectica nor paradoxa. The god who stood at the end of some human way - even of this way - would not be God.
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I can't cut out a piece of cloth and make a lovely dress, but I can mend tears in shirts and sew on buttons.
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The affairs of this world are so shifting and depend on so many accidents, that it is hard to form any judgment concerning the future; nay, we see from experience that the forecasts even of the wise almost always turn out false.
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Experience is the only prophecy of wise men.
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Openly speaking, the only formula that will save Greece's future is more trade with Turkey and more investment with Turkey.
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One thing I've learned from my parents and from observing all the artists I've been lucky enough to grow up around is that you've got to be brave.
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For many of us it's been four years since we trained for this mission and its been a wonderful experience.
