Deke Slayton Quotes
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Nothing is unfilmable.
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Searchers after horror haunt strange, far places.
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I want to give kids that fall-off-the-bed-laughing feeling. Either that, or the sixth-grade feeling that life is hard - sometimes unbearably hard - and it is ultimately about death. But in the meantime, life can be really funny, too.
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The purpose of a business is to create customers.
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If I'm confirmed, I'll be myself.
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The whites come to applaud a Negro performer just like the colored do. When you've got the respect of white and colored, you can ease a lot of things.
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My full name is E.G. Marshall. I am known by no other.
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I am not afraid of aging, but more afraid of people's reactions to my aging.
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I'm a very lucky girl.
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Despite all the media coverage, glitz and glam of hedge funds, they have not done well for their investors. They have high - some say excessively high - fees; their short- and long-term performance has been poor.
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I came to New York in 1962 and it began to look like I might he able to make a living in 1972.
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Generally speaking, if a human being never shows anger, then I think something's wrong. He's not right in the brain.
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I have always marched to my own beat, and most frequently, it was inconsistent not only with my own immediate family, but with my culture as well.
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Men are visual creatures.
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I believe everything falls into place as it's supposed to.
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I don't think of myself as being disabled, or able-bodied.
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My whole family actually, but my parents. I had such a normal and amazing childhood. I've been so lucky. My parents are cool and normal. They don't talk about the business and I still have stuff to do at their house.
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Lots of people speak Afrikaans. It's not a statement; it's just a language that we use to communicate. It has its own flavour; it's got its own slang. People laugh. People like it. They like us being open.
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I learnt from Armstrong on the early recordings that you never sang a song the same way twice.
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The best decision I ever made was to invest in myself, both financially and time-wise.
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Yoga is just good for you.
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That night we made love "the real way" which we had not yet attempted although married six months. Big mystery. No one knew where to put their leg and to this day I'm not sure we got it right. He seemed happy. You're like Venice he said beautifully. Early next day I wrote a short talk "On Defloration" which he stole and had published in a small quarterly magazine. Overall this was a characteristic interaction between us. Or should I say ideal. Neither of us had ever seen Venice.
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You're on your way, Jose!
