Chuck Yeager Quotes
If you want to grow old as a pilot, you've got to know when to push it, and when to back off.
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I was raised to treat my body as a temple, but even as a little girl, I had a major issue with self-esteem. I thought there was something wrong with the temple.
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I had my first concert in front of 80,000 people at the International Soca Monarch Finals.
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The American public got to see for themselves every day, all day, how this trial progressed. There's a lot of value in the public being able to see how the system works.
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All I have to do to continue to make things work is make great records, and that's more important than having a crazy master plan.
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I was always very independent and looked out for myself. I think that ability really helped me in later years both in sports and in theatre.
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In films people basically work for the camera, you know, and that's why actors can hate each other and not be speaking to each other and still look as if they're in love because really they're loving the camera loving them.
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I respond to a part just intuitively when I read a script.
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We were making new ones the second year. We were in syndication the second year. So we were on Saturday nights, prime time, every morning, and then they put it on Sunday evenings too. So it was all over the place.
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I see poetry as spiritual medicine.
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Hawaiians want change, and if the Democrats don't offer change, Hawaiians are going to vote for the Republican who offers change.
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There is a cultural movement in the white working class to blame problems on society or the government, and that movement gains adherents by the day.
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You Liberals think that goats are just sheep from broken homes.
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Just like Barack Obama, my views on gay marriage have evolved, and now I am a reluctant groom.
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Remember, the body does gradually renew itself constantly. Do not look upon the conditions which have existed as not being to be eradicated from the system. Hold to that KNOWLEDGE- and don't think of it as just therapy-that the body CAN, the body DOES, renew itself!
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Fascism was an explosion against intolerable conditions, against remediable wrongs which the old world failed to remedy. It was a movement to secure national renaissance by people who felt themselves threatened with decline into decadence and death and were determined to live, and live greatly.
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I hope I'm not getting so famous that I can't think out load [sic] anymore.
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Even though you were once a goddess, Kalidasa’s heaven was only an illusion.
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Where there is a stink of shitthere is a smell of being.
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Some of my ancestors were religious dissenters who came to America over three hundred years ago. Others were abolitionists in New England in the eighteen forties and fifties.
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I think I could survive a week without eating.
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When I talk to booksellers, they tell me how hard it is to hand-sell some of my books because I do keep popping around.
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This hobble of being alive is rather serious, don’t you think so?
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If the game is run properly as a professional game, you do not need 57 old farts running rugby.
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If you want to grow old as a pilot, you've got to know when to push it, and when to back off.
