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Chuck Yeager Quotes

You do what you can for as long as you can, and when you finally can't, you do the next best thing. You back up but you don't give up.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: aviator
Nationality: american
Birth: February 13, 1923

Topics

Best Long You Back Back Up Up

It's quite normal to hear of a change and see it as a problem, but it's probably an opportunity, depending on how quickly you can adjust.

Change Opportunity Problem You See

Thanks to budget shortfalls and format wars, our traditional media, literature, and arts are perishing faster than ever before. Nothing conceived by the human mind, except Heaven and nuclear winter, is eternal.

Jeffrey Zeldman

Winter Mind Literature Media Heaven

The public conviction that a railroad linking the West and the East was an absolute necessity became so pronounced after the gold discoveries of '49 that Congress passed an act in 1853 providing for a survey of several lines from the Mississippi to the Pacific.

Gold Congress Railroad Survey Act

I had an Irish Catholic education. Horrible nuns, vindictive and cruel.

Education Irish Cruel Horrible Nuns

Things come to you without you necessarily knowing what they mean.

You Knowing Mean Without Things

Generally, people's fear and hesitancy regarding greater computerization comes from a George Orwell/'1984'-based metaphor of a single computer or data base where all your information is stored, knows everything about you, and can use this information at will and for evil purposes.

Toomas Hendrik Ilves

Fear People Evil Data Information

Some of the greatest actors have turned superheroes into a serious business: Michael Keaton and Jack Nicholson in 'Batman'; Ian McKellen and Patrick Stewart, the first venerable knights of the X-Men, who have now passed the baton to Michael Fassbender and James McAvoy.

Business Serious Now First Greatest

I like the Bulls, the Bears - Chicago.

Chicago Like Bears Bulls

Los Angeles is an uncanny place to live. It has many science fiction qualities. For example, when I'm standing in line at the supermarket and I recognise the person in front of me, but I can't figure out how I know them. Suddenly, I realise I saw them in some random commercial six years ago.

Live Science Me Random Place Person

We're moving from a centralized understanding of the world to a decentralized understanding of the world.

Moving World Understanding

No, I've never played baseball in my life.

Life Baseball My Life Never Played

Biggie was the King Of New York as a rapper. There's a lot more dangerous guys than Biggie Smalls out there, you know what I'm saying? John Gotti was way closer to King Of New York than him.

New York King Saying You Dangerous

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