David McCampbell Quotes
Aggressiveness was a fundamental to success in airtoair combat and if you ever caught a fighter pilot in a defensive mood you had him licked before you started shooting.
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My earliest memory is dreamlike: in a small orchard or garden I am carried on the arm, I believe, of my father; there was a group of grown-ups, my mother among them, and the group was slowly walking in the orchard, it seems toward the house.
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We are like a traveling circus, our family! We sing, we dance, we do football, we do fashion.
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I've found out how overwhelming the media is and the way it drills things into your head, it's almost like a mind control. If I could control prople's minds, I'd like to put something useful in.
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The president of the United States is not a king. You know? Barack Obama was elected by the American people.
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There is a lot of strength and intelligence in Hollywood.
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I think extreme secrecy is a bad sign in all startups. Very few startups die because they tell you exactly how their technology works. On the long list of startup killers, that's pretty far down. Though on the list of entrepreneur fears, it's pretty high.
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People like to see me fight. A name can only take you so far. There are only a few fighters out of the thousands of boxers out there that have name recognition. I'm definitely not upset by that.
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I was going to France to do my masters and my Ph.D., but I didn't know how to say, 'bonjour.' You really feel like a baby, starting everything from scratch.
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The populace is like the sea, motionless in itself, but stirred by every wind, even the lightest breeze.
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The tolls for the maintenance of a high road, cannot with any safety be made the property of private persons.
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Todo se había quedado sin engaño, esa vez. Y esa vez tuve miedo de todo.
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Honesty is love.
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It's easy to be cynical about American politics. It's more important not to be.
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You can't trust actors.
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I've always been a little crazy.
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When we attach ourselves to national identities, then we enter into a cycle of conflict. I didn't choose where I was born or who to be or what people would call me.
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The fun of being in the pop world is you can really play with people's perceptions of what the word pop means.
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Some critics will write 'Maya Angelou is a natural writer' - which is right after being a natural heart surgeon.
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I think people often confuse success with fame and stardom.
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Doing comedy is one of the best gifts in life.
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I'm surprised at people who have a passion for Mitt Romney, because he's taken every position there is. I would cast this guy as the president in a heartbeat... but I just cannot believe a word he says.
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Write it down, boy. If you come across a passage in your reading that you’d like to remember, write it down in your little book; then you can read it again, memorize it, and have it whenever you wish.
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Aggressiveness was a fundamental to success in airtoair combat and if you ever caught a fighter pilot in a defensive mood you had him licked before you started shooting.
