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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I have a terrible attention span, so if something can keep my attention, I know that that's at least a great start.
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While you’re alive there’s no time for minor amazements.
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I'm under pressure with all my films. And the reason we are always under pressure is because it's only in our profession that months and even years of hard work is judged by the first show on Friday.
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Regret is a tough emotion to live down: it haunts you in ways that will sap your strength and inspiration to go on to better things.
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I have no nerves, no emotion, no pressure.
