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I'm urging NASA to foster the development of what I call 'runway landers.' No, that's not the name of a high stakes gambler from Vegas. It's a type of spacecraft that flies to orbit like the retiring Shuttles but then glides to a landing like an airplane on a runway. Just like the Shuttles do.

~Buzz Aldrin

Topics: Airplane Call Development Flies Foster Gambler High Just Landing Like Name Nasa Orbit Retiring Runway Stakes Then Type Urging Vegas

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I went from an unemployed actor's life to doing stand-up comedy, and that was fortuitous. It's not the usual way the crow flies, going from being in a TV sketch show to playing one of Shakespeare's finest characters, but, hey, that's the way it has happened.

~Catherine Tate

Topics: Actor Being Characters Comedy Crow Doing Finest Flies Fortuitous Going Happened Hey Life Playing Shakespeare Show Sketch Stand-Up Stand-Up Comedy Tv Unemployed Usual Way

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There is no one, says another, whom fortune does not visit once in his life; but when she does not find him ready to receive her, she walks in at the door, and flies out at the window.

~Charles De Montesquieu

Topics: Another Does Door Find Flies Fortune Her Him His Life Once Out Ready Receive Says She Visit Walks Whom Window

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Like our attitude to love, truth and goodness, we seem to be confident about knowing what beauty is - certain, even dogmatic - until we think hard about the idea, whereupon all confidence flies away.

~Charles Jencks

Topics: About Attitude Away Beauty Certain Confidence Confident Dogmatic Even Flies Goodness Hard Idea Knowing Like Love Our Seem Think To Love Truth Until

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What I find problematic is the suggestion that when, say, Madonna adopts an African child, she is saving Africa. It's not that simple. You have to do more than go there and adopt a child or show us pictures of children with flies in their eyes. That simplifies Africa.

~Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Topics: Adopt Africa African Child Children Eyes Find Flies Go Madonna More Pictures Problematic Saving Say She Show Simple Suggestion Than Us You

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Life flies by, and it's easy to get lost in the blur. In adolescence, it's 'How do I fit in?' In your 20s, it's 'What do I want to do?' In your 30s, 'Is this what I'm meant to do?' I think the trick is living the questions. Not worrying so much about what's ahead but rather sitting in the grey area - being OK with where you are.

~Chris Pine

Topics: About Adolescence Area Being Blur Easy Fit Flies Get Grey How Life Living Lost Meant Much Ok Questions Rather Sitting Think Trick Want Where Worrying You Your I Think Ahead

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I immediately loved working with flies. They fascinated me and followed me around in my dreams.

~Christiane Nusslein-Volhard

Topics: Around Dreams Fascinated Flies Followed Immediately Loved Me Working

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How do I let go of Maplewood? It's like Shangri-la. It's so culturally diverse, and all my children are adopted - a transracial family. And we're not the freaks. Everybody flies their freak flag high in Maplewood!

~Christine Ebersole

Topics: Adopted Children Diverse Everybody Family Flag Flies Freak Freaks Go High How Let Go Like

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I'm a fly fisherman. I make flies. They're imitations of insects at different stages in their development.

~Christopher Guest

Topics: Development Different Different Stages Fisherman Flies Fly Imitations Insects Make Stages

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Extreme heroism springs from something that no scientific theory can fully explain; it's an illogical impulse that flies in the face of biology, psychology, actuarial statistics, and basic common sense.

~Christopher Mcdougall

Topics: Basic Biology Common Common Sense Explain Extreme Face Flies Fully Heroism Illogical Impulse Psychology Scientific Sense Something Springs Statistics Theory

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