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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XTC is my favorite band; I'm a huge Neil Young fan, Jayhawks, all that type of stuff. I like Death Cab for Cutie, also Ryan Adams. I try to impress my children: 'Have you listened to such-and-such?' They're not impressed.
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You finish a job and it's very emotional because you're working crazy long hours, and your work family is like a real family.
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Those of us lucky enough to fall in love with Asia know that it's an affair that's as long as it is resonant.
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Discrimination due to age is one of the great tragedies of modern life. The desire to work and be useful is what makes life worth living, and to be told your efforts are not needed because you are the wrong age is a crime.
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The fear of criticism is at the bottom of the destruction of most ideas which never reach the planning and action stage.
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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.
