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I have often said that the lure of flying is the lure of beauty.

~Amelia Earhart

Topics: Beauty Flying Lure Often Said

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Among all the marvels of modern invention, that with which I am most concerned is, of course, air transportation. Flying is perhaps the most dramatic of recent scientific attainment. In the brief span of thirty-odd years, the world has seen an inventor's dream first materialized by the Wright brothers at Kitty Hawk become an everyday actuality.

~Amelia Earhart

Topics: Air Am Among Attainment Become Brief Brothers Concerned Course Dramatic Dream Everyday First Flying Hawk Invention Inventor Kitty Modern Most Perhaps Recent Scientific Seen Span Transportation Which World Wright Wright Brothers Years I Am

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I have a couple freeloader friends, but it's okay. I know they're gonna come in with their arms flying in the air empty-handed.

~Amy Sedaris

Topics: Air Arms Come Couple Flying Friends Gonna Know Okay

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More and more, the superrich don't live in one place but many, flitting between multiple homes on different continents, flying to them on private jets, perhaps, concealing many of their real estate purchases through webs of shell companies and trusts.

~Anand Giridharadas

Topics: Between Companies Concealing Continents Different Estate Flying Homes Jets Live Many More More And More Multiple Perhaps Place Private Purchases Real Real Estate Shell Them Through Trusts Web

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In the heyday of the Oscars, there were electric sparks flying. When Cher went in her fabulous Bob Mackie dress and her Mohawk, and Bjoerk with her swan dress. Then we thought it was bad taste; now I think it should have been the best dress because she stood out.

~Andre Leon Talley

Topics: Bad Bad Taste Because Been Best Bob Dress Electric Fabulous Flying Her Now Oscars Out She Should Sparks Stood Swan Taste Then Think Thought Were I Think

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I work best when there is adversity: I seem to get calmer the more the fur is flying.

~Andrea Arnold

Topics: Adversity Best Flying Fur Get More Seem Work

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I've always been fascinated and stared at maps for hours as a kid. I've especially been most intrigued by the uninhabited or lonelier places on the planet. Like Greenland, for instance, or just recently flying over Alaska and a chain of icy, mountainous islands, uninhabited.

~Andrew Bird

Topics: Alaska Always Been Chain Fascinated Flying Greenland Hours Icy Instance Intrigued Islands Just Kid Like Lonelier Maps Most Over Places Planet Recently Stared

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If you clean it up, get analytical, all the subtle joy and emotion you felt in the first place goes flying out the window.

~Andrew Wyeth

Topics: Analytical Clean Emotion Felt First First Place Flying Get Goes Joy Out Place Subtle Up Window You

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Like most manic depressives, some of my symptoms included racing thoughts that I simply had to act upon - flying from New York to Paris and taking the train to Berlin; flying to Argentina in the middle of the night; spending tens of thousands of dollars on unnecessary garments, dinners and gifts.

~Andy Behrman

Topics: Act Argentina Berlin Dinners Dollars Flying Garments Gifts Had Included Like Manic Middle Most New New York Night Paris Racing Simply Some Spending Symptoms Taking Tens Tens Of Thousands Thoughts Thousands Train Unnecessary York

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This was 1978, when flying was still an occasion, a special grand event that took planning and care. I worked as a TWA flight attendant then. I stood in my Ralph Lauren uniform at the boarding door and smiled at the passengers through lips coated with lipstick that perfectly matched the stripe on my jacket. Mostly, the passengers smiled back.

~Ann Hood

Topics: Attendant Back Boarding Care Door Event Flight Flying Grand Jacket Lauren Lips Lipstick Matched Mostly Occasion Passengers Perfectly Planning Ralph Ralph Lauren Smiled Special Still Stood Stripe Then Through Took Uniform Worked

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