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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In cases of this sort, let us say adultery, rightness and wrongness do not depend on committing it with the right woman at the right time and in the right manner, but the mere fact of committing such action at all is to do wrong.
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The battle of getting better is never ending.
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What must it be like for a little boy to read that daddy never loved mummy?
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For me, marriage is about love, not paperwork. I've never been the kid who dreamed of the big white dress, the long veil, the fancy diamond ring.
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Bodhisattva is enlightened in the Buddhist philosophy, religion, tradition. He's enlightened. It's fine - I don't really fight it - but many people use the term 'zen' and terms like 'nirvana,' 'enlightenment' in an almost superficial way. It's not that complicated.
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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.'
