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.

David McCampbell

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• Fighter
• Shooting
• Defensive
• Aggressiveness

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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.

  

  Immanuel Velikovsky
  • Believe
  • Mother
  • Father

• We are like a traveling circus, our family! We sing, we dance, we do football, we do fashion.

  

  Victoria Beckham Spice Girls
  • Family
  • Fashion
  • Football

• The Reagans were dear friends for many years, even when he was governor of California. Nancy appreciated a lot of Philippine-made things.

  

  Imelda Marcos
  • Friends
  • Years
  • California

• 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.

  

  Natalie Merchant
  • Mind
  • Control
  • Media

• The president of the United States is not a king. You know? Barack Obama was elected by the American people.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • People
  • American
  • Know

• There is a lot of strength and intelligence in Hollywood.

  

  Fay Wray
  • Strength
  • Intelligence
  • Lot

• Mental toughness is spartanism with qualities of sacrifice, self-denial, dedication. It is fearlessness, and it is love.

  

  Vince Lombardi
  • Sacrifice
  • Dedication
  • Qualities

• 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.

  

  Sam Altman
  • Long
  • Bad
  • High

• 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.

  

  Laila Ali
  • People
  • Fight
  • Name

• 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.

  

  Zeresenay Alemseged
  • Know
  • Baby
  • Starting

• The populace is like the sea, motionless in itself, but stirred by every wind, even the lightest breeze.

  

  Livy
  • Sea
  • Wind

• The tolls for the maintenance of a high road, cannot with any safety be made the property of private persons.

  

  Adam Smith
  • High
  • Road
  • Safety

• Todo se había quedado sin engaño, esa vez. Y esa vez tuve miedo de todo.

  

  Antonio Porchia

• Honesty is love.

  

  Andy Dunn
  • Honesty

• It's easy to be cynical about American politics. It's more important not to be.

  

  Andy Dunn
  • Important
  • American

• You can't trust actors.

  

  Emma Roberts
  • Trust

• I've always been a little crazy.

  

  Charlie Trotter
  • Crazy

• 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.

  

  Ashraf Barhom
  • People

• I remember when I first met Katherine Bigelow for 'Zero Dark Thirty' – actually, we met for another movie, and that never got made, and then she called me and invited me to 'Zero Dark Thirty'.

  

  Edgar Ramirez
  • Remember
  • Movie
  • Actually

• I was performing from the age of three.

  

  Jennifer Ellison
  • Age

• 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.

  

  David McCampbell
  • Success
  • Fighter
  • Shooting