Chuck Yeager Quotes
You don't concentrate on risks. You concentrate on results. No risk is too great to prevent the necessary job from getting done.
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I feel like I'm going backwards, actually, as I get older. I'm regressing. I feel more and more like a kid, which is kind of a fun feeling.
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I have four kids. They are two years apart, and contraception has been very, very good to me.
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I do admit to being slightly in love with Christopher Walken.
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Adding 'just kidding' doesn't make it okay to insult the Principal.
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Leaders should always expect the very best of those around them. They know that people can change and grow.
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I understand acting and I understand actors. I don't really understand the world of celebrity. That's just bizarre. Those sorts of elements I'm at sea with.
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You really get the most out of sweet corn if you pick the corn off the stalk and rush it to a pot of boiling water. The longer you wait, the more sugar you lose. But if you get it in the first half hour, that is the sweetest corn ever.
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There are 309 million people out there that are trying to improve their lot in life. And we've got a system that allows them to do it.
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The vegetable life does not content itself with casting from the flower or the tree a single seed, but it fills the air and earth with a prodigality of seeds, that, if thousands perish, thousands may plant themselves, that hundreds may come up, that tens may live to maturity; that, at least one may replace the parent.
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Once I can verify my account, I will have a Twitter.
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In 1853, American warships bullied Japan out of centuries of virtual isolation and into the modern world. The threat of force compelled Japan, like India and China before it, to accept trade agreements that were economically ruinous and eroded national sovereignty.
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Well, the big products in electronics in the '50s were radio and television. The first big computers were just beginning to come in and represented the most logical market for us to work in.
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Everything is creative. It's all relative to me. No matter what, you've gotta use your imagination, use your senses.
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Of course it's fantastic to have bands formed in garages, but there is a market for other types of music.
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I could probably name thousands of albums that I want.
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I really had a problem with being 'the man.' I'm past it now, but that was my insecurity. I ran from that. I was cool with being No. 3 on the call sheet or No. 2.
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It's good to have a title that's not just one word. If you're gonna title it, you might as well try and say something.
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When I go from a role with heavy prosthetic makeup, which I've done quite a bit of as well, and then do a role where I'm not wearing any, I have to be conscious of toning everything down.
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Downloading songs is not good.
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I still have my high school copy of the collected Poe - missing its covers and pretty worse for the wear.
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The emphasis has been on rights, not responsibilities. When it comes to piecing together the fragments of broken lives, we have tended to place the entire burden on the state and its agencies.
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I just wanted to write the songs. I never wanted to sing them.
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When I was at Brown, I wanted to write the great American novel, but I was too scared to take a creative course. I signed up for one, got in, and just didn't have the courage to go. I was a tremendously shy person, almost pathologically shy. The thought of peers critiquing my work - oh, God.
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You don't concentrate on risks. You concentrate on results. No risk is too great to prevent the necessary job from getting done.
