Chuck Yeager Quotes
What good does it do to be afraid? It doesn't help anything. You better try and figure out what's happening and correct it.
Quotes to Explore
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To insult someone we call him 'bestial. For deliberate cruelty and nature, 'human' might be the greater insult.
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There is no shortage of embarrassing facts about healthcare, and people die every day in the U.S. due to preventable errors - would you fly planes if you knew several of them would drop out of the sky every day?
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The best thing commercially, which is the worst artistically, by and large, is the most successful.
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Splendid architecture, the love of your life, an old friend... they can all go drifting by unseen if you're not careful.
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If you want to make change, 'Show me how' can be a stronger, more effective approach than 'Just say no.' That's what I think.
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From a population point of view, it's actually very important that as few people as possible get the flu. People getting the flu is not a private matter. The risk for healthy people is really about your friends and neighbors and fellow travelers.
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I don't ever want to feel complacent.
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I developed a deep sadness for celebrities, a pity that they often are caught in a plastic world that runs too hard and too fast, and that many times that world means destroyed relationships with everyone they know and love.
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I was never a Boy Scout, but oh, I wanted to be one when I was a kid about ten or eleven years old. But there wasn't anyplace where I could ever join the Boy Scouts.
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I moved to Dallas in 1975 and stayed there until 1980. That's when I decided it was time to move to L.A.
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Most people draw from the mind, not the eye. They draw the idea of a table or a face, not what's in front of them. We don't actually see the line of the jaw as a line and we don't see an eye as a perfectly outlined almond shape.
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We are not actually equal - humanity - if we are not allowed to freely love one another.
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No humorist is under any obligation to provide answers and probably if you were to delve into the literary history of humour it's probably all about not providing answers because the humorist essentially says: this is the way things are.
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Now we sit through Shakespeare in order to recognize the quotations.
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I'm sentimental about many things: the lumpy feel of a baby's unused feet, the metallic smell of the air before the first snow, the last scene in 'It's a Wonderful Life.' But Valentine's Day leaves me cold.
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I don't want to smoke on screen, as I will be sending a wrong message to my fans, and I appeal to my costars too, to avoid smoking scenes if possible.
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Those who wish to appear wise among fools, among the wise seem foolish.
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I have lots of memories of my father. He was an incredible father. We all loved him to death.
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I have long thought that anyone who does not regularly - or ever - gaze up and see the wonder and glory of a dark night sky filled with countless stars loses a sense of their fundamental connectedness to the universe.
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When I gave a talk at TEDx, I thought that if I did a good job, the video might go viral.
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The market for short stories is hard to break into, but a magazine editor isn't always looking for big names with which to sell his magazine - they're more willing to try stories by newcomers, if those tales are good.
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Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work.
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What good does it do to be afraid? It doesn't help anything. You better try and figure out what's happening and correct it.
