Eileen Collins Quotes
I'm honored to be the first woman to have the opportunity to command the shuttle. I don't really think about that on a day-to-day basis because I really don't need to.
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Darling, when you're as old as I am, you cherish the very few musicals that have come your way that you know are great classics. You become their guardian.
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In the Great Depression, you bought something if you had the cash to buy it.
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You can collect all the plastic bottle caps you want as long as you give me the money so we can get off this death trap, find somewhere else and have tremendous fun screwing that up as well.
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When writing screenplays, it's a matter of remembering to leave off the page anything and everything that doesn't appear on the screen.
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The perils of duck hunting are great - especially for the duck.
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I'm the kinda girl who works for Paramount by day, and Fox all night
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When our two souls stand up erect and strong,Face to face, silent, drawing nigh and nigher,Until the lengthening wings break into fireAt either curvèd point, - what bitter wrongCan the earth do to us, that we should not longBe here contented?
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It is always the teacher who must learn the most … or else nothing real has happened in the exchange.
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I do everything on my phone as a lot of people do.
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Germany has an established and well-furnished Catholicism, often with employed Catholics who handle the church like a labor union. For them, the church is simply the employer.
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When I first went to prison, I was even questioning where, God, where are you?
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Before Disney, I did other shows so I was aware of the business. They're all the same in that they're a professional environment. The only difference between a Disney show and other network shows are in the age of the actors you're working with and the age of the intended audience.
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Respect and a gentlemanly character - those are marks of a Nebraskan.
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I appreciate people who are happy.
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I hope my books empower kids, and that they learn how to work out their problems themselves.
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We live in a society that has a long history of not valuing people of color or women.
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As a fiscal conservative, I think that our government should pay for itself.
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Nixon's grand mistake was his failure to understand that Americans are forgiving, and if he had admitted error early and apologized to the country, he would have escaped.
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Bottom line is I always want what's best for the team, and as long as the football team is winning games, I'm happy.
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When it comes to social issues, Republicans don't just need to be more empathetic. They also need to be more emphatic in explaining to voters what they believe, and why.
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The whole idea that the rescue was staged or the soldiers were shooting blanks, that's just obvious stuff. Why would you do that in the middle of a war? It's just crazy.
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The word 'career' and 'actor' really don't fit in the same paragraph, let alone sentence. There is no career structure for actors.
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Information is not knowledge, and knowledge is not wisdom. Reading - even browsing - an old book can yield sustenance denied by a database search. Patience is a virtue, gluttony a sin.
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I'm honored to be the first woman to have the opportunity to command the shuttle. I don't really think about that on a day-to-day basis because I really don't need to.
