Eileen Collins Quotes
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It's important not to think about Bitcoin as a replacement for cash or gold or something that works alongside that; it's to think of it as programmable money. And we just cannot even imagine what that will be used for.
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Saint Joseph's still is among the smaller-enrollment institutions with a big-time basketball program. The Jesuits still offer the same high-quality education. St. Joe's students and alumni are as supportive as ever, and their spirit is unquenchable.
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Certitude is not the test of certainty. We have been cocksure of many things that were not so.
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It's a trifle hard to surprise yourself with a story you've written.
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My mother told me I should be a secretary, but I wanted to be an actress from when I was very young.
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I set myself one task, which was to get Labour on to the front foot, back in the game, making the weather on the economy, and that's going to take me a year.
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To gastroenterologists, the concept of a germ causing ulcers was like saying that the Earth is flat.
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When you know your intention, you are in a position to choose the consequences that you will create for yourself. When you choose an intention that creates consequences for which you are willing to be responsible, that is a responsible choice.
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I looked through our catalog year by year, and I saw that there were pockets of time when we wrote some terrific songs. Then all of a sudden, we'd go for another two or three months and there weren't great songs.
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Countries have lost their culture because what they wanted was money. Money became the running theme in every country and culture was sacrificed.
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I am very much a Republican.
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I knew that I tend to always gravitate to the indie side of things.
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The gamble of literature is that I make the best work I can; the most truthful, the most representative of how I see things. I try and do that, and then I put it out there and say to you, 'What do you think?' I hope that you think well of it, obviously.
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People work hard.
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Everybody is nicer to me when I'm in yellow.
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In an ever-changing technological landscape, where today's platforms are not tomorrow's platforms, the key seems to be that any one of these spaces can use a dose of humanity and art and culture.
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When you get on a good horse, you just know. They are powerful, they stop quickly, they can turn in both directions, and they are fast.
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A poet is a man who puts up a ladder to a star and climbs it while playing a violin.
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When you feel your best, everybody else can feel it, too.
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I never thought that I would have the guts to join the movement. I can’t even believe it. It’s so cheesy, but women are so much stronger together, and it just makes me proud to be a woman.
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I have now reached the happy age of 23. No, happy is not quite the right word. At this particular moment I am certainly not happy.
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We have seen that in certain respects operant reinforcement resembles the natural selection of evolutionary theory. Just as genetic characteristics which arise as mutations are selected or discarded by their consequences, so novel forms of behavior are selected or discarded through reinforcement.
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Our flight is the next flight of many in the human exploration of the universe.
