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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Rape is an outrage that cannot be tolerated in a civilized society. Yet feminism, which has waged a crusade for rape to be taken more seriously, has put young women in danger by hiding the truth about sex from them.
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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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Big swing its initial impulse, the fact is that its continuance is not the result of manipulation by pools or artifice by financiers, but depends upon basic conditions. And no matter who opposes it, the swing must inevitably run as far and as fast and as long as the impelling forces determine.
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Life is a great tapestry. The individual is only an insignificant thread in an immense and miraculous pattern.
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I was a loser in high school.
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There's a certain point in chemistry and in calculus where I reached the end of my abilities, and I realized, 'This is where I'm stupid.'
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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.
