Eileen Collins Quotes
It will be expensive, it will be risky and we will make mistakes as we go. But we will do it because we are explorers by nature.
Quotes to Explore
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I would convert to Judaism if the operation didn't hurt so much.
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I cannot determine what people or nations should do, but I do think that extremism gives birth to following and subsequent extremism.
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In Bollywood, if you work with a superstar, even if you are a newcomer, you become a superstar. That didn't happen with me.
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I think, I think we need a Republican president from the real world to remind ourselves sometimes of what we need to do.
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It is not true that we have only one life to live; if we can read, we can live as many more lives and as many kinds of lives as we wish.
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I don't accept gifts from perfect strangers - but then, nobody's perfect.
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Being in Harlem on the night of Barack Obama's election was extraordinary. It was the best street party I have ever gone to, and it felt like the period of American history which began with slavery had ended that evening.
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If you look at any normal organization, the CEO is the person with the highest E.Q. The person with the highest IQ is often in the back room running the financials or the operations. That's topsy turvy.
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I didn't go into the theater to be a producer, I went into the theater to be a director.
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You're always facing the top defenders in this league. To go out there and do your best, that's all you can ask for.
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Do you know what integration really means? It means intermarriage. That's the real point behind it. You can't have it without intermarriage. And that would result in disintegration of both races.
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Never follow somebody else's path; it doesn't work the same way twice for anyone... the path follows you and rolls up behind you as you walk, forcing the next person to find their own way.
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I'm an outsider.
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Romania is still very much underutilizing its natural and human potential.
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As an Oklahoma quarterback, you learn to perform under pressure.
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The most High approveth not the gifts of the wicked.
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Just learning to think in another language allows you to see your own culture in a better viewpoint.
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If you do your research on hot springs all over the world, they're usually places of peace. People, even in warring nations and so forth, they'll go and live in peace together around the hot springs, which were always considered medicinal. I firmly believe in water therapy.
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There is that lovely feeling of one reader telling another, 'You must read this.' I've always wanted to write a book like that, with the sense that you are contributing to the discourse in middle America, a discourse that begins at a book club in a living room, but then spreads. That is meaningful to me.
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Do not speak unless you can improve the silence.
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My sexual nature is irrelevant. I'm an actor, I play roles, fragments of myself.
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We love it when we make mistakes that are better than something you could think up.
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It's time to open the space frontier to citizen explorers.
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It will be expensive, it will be risky and we will make mistakes as we go. But we will do it because we are explorers by nature.
