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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Social policy that reunites father and child must always confront itself with the question, 'Are we paying dads to stay, or to go away?' If a single mother receives more money when the father isn’t around than when he is around, there will be fewer fathers around. The government will become her substitute husband.
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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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Losing my parents, who I admired, loved and needed, it took a long time to be able to move on.
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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 play on a soccer team.
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I appreciate people who are happy.
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I suppose that's why new music and I go well together, because new music often requires maintaining great rhythm.
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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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In my family, I was loved, but only if I would fight this gay thing and not let it take over me. I would be loved unconditionally if I could be cured of my 'sickness,' but it certainly would not be OK if I couldn't.
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'Each day has its own destiny. Yesterday is history, today is opportunity while tomorrow is mystery.'
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Even I had no opportunity to conduct very many concerts after World War II.
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In 1998, I set up and directed a research group at the Nanotechnology Institute newly created in the Research Center of Karlsruhe. This allowed to offer to former post-doctoral coworkers the opportunity to develop and to progressively set up independent research activities in nanoscience and nanotechnology.
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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.
