Eileen Collins Quotes
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We don't want to create a literary ghetto in which black writers are only allowed to write black characters and women writers are put on 'girl books.'
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But I think my mistakes became the chemistry for my miracles. I think that my tests became my testimonies.
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I thought marriage was something very quiet and very regular and very bourgeois.
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It is very wrong to sleep in your make-up, but when you wake up the next morning, I think it looks very good.
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Hockey, honestly, was my first love. The excitement, the fast pace, the intensity of the game... I still love it to this day.
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The man who builds a factory builds a temple, that the man who works there worships there, and to each is due, not scorn and blame, but reverence and praise.
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I don't believe in strong-arming people.
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Every sport has its own cast of characters.
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What we cannot deny is that there's an association between exclusion, segregation, non-violent extremist thinking, and jihadism.
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Elite athletes learn entitlement. They believe they are entitled to have women serve their needs. It's part of being a man. It's the cultural construction of masculinity.
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If you do not feel yourself growing in your work and your life broadening and deepening, if your task is not a perpetual tonic to you, you have not found your place.
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Capitalism is using its money; we socialists throw it away.
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I want to be the first person to laugh at myself. It makes other people feel at ease - we're all on an even playing field.
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When you come to San Francisco, we want you to know where Salesforce is.
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If you're gonna tell your life story, you gotta be honest, or don't do it.
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I'm neither Democrat nor Republican.
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We must realise that man's nature will remain the same so long as he remains man; that civilisation is but a slight coverlet beneath which the dominant beast sleeps lightly and ever ready to awake. To preserve civilisation, we must deal scientifically with the brute element, using only genuine biological principles.
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I remember a hundred lovely lakes, and recall the fragrant breath of pine and fir and cedar and poplar trees. The trail has strung upon it, as upon a thread of silk, opalescent dawns and saffron sunsets.
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You have nothing to prove. Be the spiritual you and create like a physical fiend.
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There's so much pressure, but I think if you really love it, if you truly love it, and it's your passion to sing, then that's what will get through. I think if you don't have that, you'll realise quickly.
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but there was an immediately perceptible vitality about her as if the nerves of her body were continually smouldering.
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I have no nerves, no emotion, no pressure.
