Annie Jacobsen Quotes

In the late 1960s, Ontario Airport was a throwback to a bygone era. Located 35 miles east of downtown Los Angeles, the airport served only two carriers, Western and Bonanza. Passengers could catch regional flights to San Francisco, Sacramento, Las Vegas, Palm Springs, Phoenix and Los Angeles, and that was about it.

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I just read that Time magazine cover story with all this information about how you have to have your kids by the time you're 12 or it's all over. Please.

Jill Clayburgh

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I don't have many regrets. I regret mistakes, particularly those that damage other people, and we've all made some of those. But I'm not sad about change.

John Gutfreund

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Some of the greatest businesses operating from a deeper purpose have a real commitment to service, like Four Seasons, Joie de Vivre hotels, Southwest Airlines, and JetBlue.

John Mackey

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We got our land at the right time, but when we go for additional land for our schools or the museum, there will be extra cost.

Shiv Nadar

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I'm not like a poker player. I'm not into bluff. My way is to look someone in the eye and tell them the way I'm intending to go. My cards are always on the table.

Tori Amos

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By encouraging conservation, increasing investments in clean, renewable sources of energy, and promoting increased domestic production of oil and gas, we can build a more secure future for our country.

Ron Lewis

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Me and Don Henley are fast acquaintances now, or something. He actually got on stage and sang with me.

Mojo Nixon

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Challenges make you discover things about yourself that you never really knew.

Cicely Tyson

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We've been fighting our whole lives to say we're just human beings like everyone else. When we start separating ourselves in our work, that doesn't help the cause. I've heard it for years: 'How do you feel being a black filmmaker?' I'm not a black filmmaker, I'm a filmmaker. I'm a black man, I have black children. But I'm just a filmmaker.

Antoine Fuqua

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I woke up full of hate and fear the day before the most recent peace march in San Francisco. This was disappointing: I'd hoped to wake up feeling somewhere between Virginia Woolf and Wavy Gravy.

Anne Lamott

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Man is the measure of all things.

Protagoras

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I want to die in the saddle. I love writing, producing, acting, directing.

Peter Fonda

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