Eileen Collins Quotes
Because of Amelia Earhart, we had more women available to fly in the 1940's to help us get through World War II. And because of these women, women of my generation are able to look back and say, 'Hey, they did it. They even flew military airplanes, we can do it, too.'
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A sack is way better than any nightclub. A touchdown is way better than any bar experience I've ever had.
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I was into punk rock back when I was in high school. I used to go around to dive venues and take photographs. But now it's been just much more about the country stuff and soulful folk.
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My writing could be the most beautiful or important piece of prose, but it means nothing if it's boring, if people aren't listening or reading. I think transporting someone, putting them in a story for a few hours, taking them out of their worlds, is what I always strive to do.
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How can something that's 95% water be so divisive? Alone among vegetables, the poor, innocent stick of celery elicits the most vicious attacks.
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The Islamist ideology took decades to incubate within our communities, and it will take decades to debunk.
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In managers, I look for people who can get things done through other people. The most important thing for a good manager is that the people on his team feel like he or she has integrity.
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Comic books aren't nerdy. You'd have to be an idiot to think computers are nerdy.
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If you learn one thing from having lived through decades of changing views, it is that all predictions are necessarily false.
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The laws of morals and the laws of music are the same.
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The children break all my jewelry, so everything I wear is cheap - from Topshop or Dorothy Perkins.
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The U.N.'s impartiality allows it to negotiate and operate in some of the toughest places in the world. And time and again, studies have shown that U.N. peacekeeping is far more effective and done with far less money than what any government can do on its own.
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Auditions are not a natural environment, and you feel judged, even though everyone is just excited to find the right person.
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What is American music? The most satisfying answer I've come across is that it was a kind of natural comfort with the vernacular which is diverse and regional; it's not one particular set of sounds.
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My government has promised to comprehensively respect the independence of the judiciary.
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A loaf of bread, a jug of wine, and thou.
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I've been in therapy. I know enough about myself now to know that I really don't need to know anymore.
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I want people to realize that they can dream big.
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The history of man is a compendium of such evil. We are an evolutionary product, descendants of predators. A few synthetic foods aside, every morsel eaten by man is taken from another living thing. We are intended for murder; we kill to exist!
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Most men have nothing in their heads but their physical needs; put them on a desert island with nothing to occupy their minds and they would go insane. They lack real motive. The curse of civilization is boredom.
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Furloughing a bunch of air traffic controllers has a pretty easy-to-predict effect on air travel: It causes delays.
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The United States needed a civil war to unite properly.
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I've fancied other women, but I haven't done anything about it.
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Because of Amelia Earhart, we had more women available to fly in the 1940's to help us get through World War II. And because of these women, women of my generation are able to look back and say, 'Hey, they did it. They even flew military airplanes, we can do it, too.'
