Eileen Collins Quotes
We reflect on the last shuttle mission , the great ship Columbia and her inspiring crew.
Quotes to Explore
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Listen: our culture is saturated with irony whether we know it or not.
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Histories are to educate so that we understand better for ourselves and for motivation.
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Jews had an outsider's eye on a lot of Western tradition.
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Operas elucidate, in a way sometimes absent in other theatrical productions, the very human fact that in every hero, there is a thread of duplicity. In every villain, there is another side to consider: We don't have to like him or her, but we are compelled to think about motivation.
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When you're looking through a magazine, you'd think every single person's a different person, but every third girl is actually the same girl in a different outfit and makeup.
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My characters are fictional. I get ideas from real people, sometimes, but my characters always exist only in my head.
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Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year.
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Defeating racism, tribalism, intolerance and all forms of discrimination will liberate us all, victim and perpetrator alike.
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Each color lives by its mysterious life.
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The Republican Party is terrific at determining how a program will impact the federal budget, but we're not nearly as good as the Democrats in explaining to people how our agenda will directly benefit them and their families.
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Industrial agriculture characteristically proceeds by single solutions to single problems: If you want the most money from your land this year, grow the crops for which the market price is highest.
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I took up writing to escape the drudgery of that every day cubicle kind of war.
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I'm pretty terrible at writing, so the way I kind of therapeutically get through things is by drawing.
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Ideas come from all over, but as I write more and more, I find I'm always hunting for mood: I want to write a novel with a pervasive mood that sticks with you after you close the cover.
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The first and pivotal negotiations over global access to AIDS drugs began in Geneva in 1991. They lasted two years, but confidential minutes suggest they were doomed the first day.
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I'm not one of these people that needs to feel loved. I don't need to see my picture everywhere.
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It is better for the Arab countries themselves to interfere out of their national, humanitarian, political and military duties and to do what is necessary to stop the bloodshed in Syria.
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My feeling was, you plant some seeds. If they grow, great; if they don't, you don't take it personally. Not my problem; I just kept planting. Just like a farmer.
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What I'm trying to say is: it gets boring when nothing meaningful is discussed about it. It's the same thing when a woman poet writes about suffering - it's a "woman's tendency to depression and grief." It's not a human, universal tackling of something that exists in all of us. It's suddenly a "woman issue."
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Politics is a herd mentality. Politicians don't really lead. Politicians reflect what they think is consensus opinion.
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I'd love to go into space again if there were a mission to Mars. I'd also love to go to a completely different planetary system, out of our solar system.
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The jarring change going from an urban environment to an extremely remote natural environment is extremely inspiring. It's constantly stimulating, it's like a slap in the face.
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Deep down, nobody wants a job to occupy his or her time. We want a mission that inspires us.
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We reflect on the last shuttle mission , the great ship Columbia and her inspiring crew.
