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Douglas Bader Quotes

The successful pilots succeeded because they did not open fire until they were close to the target.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: soldier
Nationality: british
Birth: February 10, 1910 - September 5, 1982

Topics

Fire Target Open Successful Because

I am the poster boy for brick-by-brick foundation building. Play a club. Put on a good show for 35 people. Come back. Build your market. Have people talk about you.

Good I Am People Building Foundation

Living in the city is a discordant thing, an unnatural thing. The city, a place to which one goes to do business, is a place where men overreach each other in the fight for money. But it is not a place in which one can live.

Live Business Money Men Fight City

I'm a product of the 1970s, so I have a short attention span. You know, I grew up on cartoons and half-hour shows. So the stories that I'm interested in grab my attention very quickly, and they have to keep my attention.

Short Attention You Know Product Up

Russia has nothing: no successful politics or economy.

Politics Nothing Economy Successful

There are large numbers of people in India below the poverty line; there are large numbers of people who lead a meager existence. They want to find a little escape from the hardships of life and come and watch something colorful and exciting and musical. Indian cinema provides that.

Amitabh Bachchan

Life People Hardships Poverty Cinema

I play the baritone horn - which is like a mini tuba, and is the least sexy instrument you can choose, and I generally say I don't play one so I don't have to acknowledge it. I also play fife.

Sexy You Choose Play Say Mini

From the ages of 12 to 35 my body, not my mind, was my primary currency. My ideas, my humor, my curiosity - none of those were valued as much as my body, which preceded me into almost every room.

Amanda de Cadenet

Humor Mind Me Ideas Curiosity Body

To get syndicated as a comic strip artist is as likely as winning the lottery.

Winning Artist Lottery Get Comic

I loved to read, but I always thought that the dream was too far away. The person who had written the book was a god, it wasn't a person.

God Book Thought Loved Dream Person

My father had extravagant notions of my beauty, grace, wit, and charm.

Beauty Father Grace Wit Charm Had

I'm a farmer now, and it's fantastic. My goal is to be totally self-sufficient and grow everything that I eat. There's something about earning your dinner that's cool.

Cool Dinner Grow Farmer Goal Now

I grew up in Los Angeles. I still remember when I was a junior in high school studying for the SATs. I had my job - I was actually a production assistant on a film - but on weekends, I would finish my prep tests on the beach.

Beach Job School High School High

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