Chuck Yeager Quotes
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Religious persecution may shield itself under the guise of a mistaken and over-zealous piety.
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Life is challenging but I'm always up for a challenge.
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I love my iPhone - I've actually gotten into games, and I find them really relaxing. Don't laugh at me, but I have 'Sally's Spa' - fantastic; 'Penguin Catapult' - it's great; and 'Word Solitaire' is my new favorite.
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Not only am I constantly seeking better performance but also to be a better person, to be respected.
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Just like gold, which has to weather very high temperatures to achieve the sheen and shine it finally gets, so also every person has to go through struggles in his life to achieve success.
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There was no welfare state, and people had to rely mainly on the Poor Law - that was all the state provided. It was very degrading, very humiliating. And there was a means test for receiving poor relief.
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Be with someone who is kind. I think that's it. Just to love one another was the thing I would want to do. It's a thing that you can't stop doing.
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I am like a friend to my kids. My wife, Sangeeta, handles their studies, etc.
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When I was a kid, we all knew who Niki Lauda was. He was a hero, a living legend in Germany. Everybody knows him. And he's still very present on TV because he's commenting for Formula One.
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What I have said to people is that I've lived the American dream, because I have.
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If Rosa Parks had not refused to move to the back of the bus, you and I might never have heard of Dr. Martin Luther King.
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The idea that I have to be on the same side of the fence as Dan Quayle is cruelly depressing to me, but the truth is, I believe in family values.
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Know the business, learn the business, own something.
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For everyone of us that succeeds, it's because there's somebody there to show you the way out.
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To do something funny, you have to have experienced it in real life and digested it in a way that amuses you.
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My chicken ain't no joke. I ain't scared to go up against the Colonel, tastewise.
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I'm Mr Boring, not a party-goer at all.
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President Sadat of Egypt made a historic breakthrough in 1977 when he put an end to war and convinced both Egyptians and Israelis that he was ready to make peace. He broke down the walls of suspicion and prejudice.
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Ignorance is not so damnable as humbug, but when it prescribes pills it may happen to do more harm.
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If you want to understand entrepreneurs, you have to study the psychology of the juvenile delinquent. They don't have the same anxiety triggers that we have.
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I think a lot of people in their average day actually imagine two sides of a conversation at one point or another. I think that the mental trick of holding two sides of a conversation in your head is actually something that we all do.
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I've given just as much of my life to that, and I practiced it with the same zeal, as I have acting. And I think that many of my skill sets from being a housewife I used for producing. Because you don't stop until it's done.
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My Lord St. Albans said that Nature did never put her precious jewels into a garret four stories high, and therefore that exceeding tall men had ever very empty heads.
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There's no such thing as a natural-born pilot.
