Chuck Yeager Quotes
I was always afraid of dying. Always. It was my fear that made me learn everything I could about my airplane and my emergency equipment, and kept me flying respectful of my machine and always alert in the cockpit.
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I am the daughter of the Chairman of the Board and thus, was raised with great music.
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I don't see pitches down the middle anymore - not even in batting practice.
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I don't have traceable literary models because I haven't had great literary influences in my life.
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My government has the challenge of addressing the issue of gas. The issue of gas cannot be addressed today without the participation of all Bolivians alike.
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The 'army camp' that coordinates the agencies of our brain is vulnerable, both in itself and from within. In effect, he who can know and master its functioning and psychology from outside can become twice its master.
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I like to believe that we all pray to the same god.
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I am autobiographical in the way a dream transforms experience and emotions all the time.
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Interestingly, one thing I've found that neither women nor men give up on is the idea of men as protectors. Even in cases where the woman is earning more, they'll often tell me that if there were a fire or something, they would expect the man to be the one to protect them.
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Nature also forges man, now a gold man, now a silver man, now a fig man, now a bean man.
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My parents told me either I choose badminton, or school has to make the best of me.
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A good amount of the guys wanted to date me. Even older guys looking at me. It took some getting used to.
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A lot of my work concerns a crisis of agency - what can we do?
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I just butcher a book. Everything I underline I assume is important to me.
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I don't believe in these headline-hunting interviews. That's just not my style.
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There's a melody in everything. And once you find the melody, then you connect immediately with the heart. Because sometimes English or Spanish, Swahili or any language gets in the way. But nothing penetrates the heart faster than the melody.
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Nobody has ever measured, not even poets, how much the heart can hold.
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I think that what people imagine they're going through is much worse than what they are going through.
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I've never seen anyone - and I've had the opportunity to work with some really terrific actors in my time - but Philip Seymour Hoffman is definitely the best I ever had the opportunity to work with.
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I'm developing a physiological theory of growth and oxygen requirement. If it's well-understood how fish require oxygen to grow, then we can understand how to deal with the impact of global warming.
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We don't know how many planets we're going to have to examine before we find life, and not finding it on 10 or 100 doesn't mean it's not there. This may be very tricky.
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The only advantage to being a middle-aged man is that when you put on a jacket and tie, you're the Scary Dad. Never mind that no one has had an actually scary dad since 1966. The visceral fear remains.
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I've never gotten thick skin. If you close yourself off and you get this protective armor, there is a price you pay with that - of not feeling. And feeling is important when you are a songwriter.
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You might not agree with me, but I always offer a lot of support.
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I was always afraid of dying. Always. It was my fear that made me learn everything I could about my airplane and my emergency equipment, and kept me flying respectful of my machine and always alert in the cockpit.
