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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Both Einstein and Freud were clever in leaving Germany, because both of them would doubtlessly have been caught by Himmler and murdered.
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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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I think that three-act fundamentalism in film culture is a problem sometimes, because it's almost too obvious, or it's too expected. And it's not the only way to fill two hours, or to phrase things, or to order thoughts, or order ideas.
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It is easier to denature plutonium than it is to denature the evil spirit of man.
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The liberty of the press is not confined to newspapers and periodicals. It necessarily embraces pamphlets and leaflets. … the press in its historic connotation comprehends every sort of publication which affords a vehicle of information and opinion.
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I'm not trying to change an image, I'm just trying to make sure that the facts match the image. The facts are basically that I'm a builder. I have not dissembled any company nor split up any companies, nor do I ever buy any companies with that intent.
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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.