Most pilots learn, when they pin on their wings and go out and get in a fighter, especially, that one thing you don't do, you don't believe anything anybody tells you about an airplane.
Chuck Yeager
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ZACHARY LEVI You don't have to tell anybody a damn thing you don't want to. MINK STOLE Kids do their own thing. We let them be real kids. You get an immediate response - if they don't... GLOZELL My number one thing? Don't overleverage yourself. Don't say you can do something when you re... MATTHEW MCCONAUGHEY When you realize that life isn't fair, you don't act out, you don't get overly wasted, y... DAVID HASSELHOFF I think what's important in a good manager and a good agent is that they know your vision and th... MAIARA WALSH I love reviews. Anybody who tells you they don't read reviews is a liar. ELAINE STRITCH You don't learn from successes; you don't learn from awards; you don't learn from celebr... JANE FONDA Life is like a trumpet - if you don't put anything into it, you don't get anything out of it... WILLIAM CHRISTOPHER HANDY I believe that if you don't want to do anything, then sit there and don't do it, but don'... SHEL SILVERSTEIN But you know, there's something about the kids finishing their homework in a given day, working ... DAVE EGGERS You don't get a standing ovation and get boos, by the way. They don't go hand in hand. DONALD TRUMP One thing that's great about firefighters: If they don't have the equipment they desperately... DENIS LEARY Don't use all-or-nothing thinking. Take each day as its own day, and don't worry about it if... HENRY CLOUD If you don't suffer, you don't get anything. Nothing easy in life. BIKRAM CHOUDHURY I don't believe you ever get closure on anything. Things leave a permanent mark on you. ALLISON ANDERS Don't write anything you can phone. Don't phone anything you can talk. Don't talk anythi... EARL LONG You learn from things that don't go well, and you try to capitalize when they do. You build on t... GARY SINISE Life is something like a trumpet. If you don't put anything in, you won't get anything out. WILLIAM CHRISTOPHER HANDY One of the absolute rules I learned in the war was, don't know anything you don't need to kn... ABRAHAM PAIS Don't sell yourself short because without that you can't go far in life because after sports... BO JACKSON That's one thing you learn in sports. You don't give up; you fight to the finish. LOUIS ZAMPERINI That's the thing about zombies. They don't adapt and they don't think. Literally, you co... MAX BROOKS When you don't know that you don't know, it's a lot different than when you do know that... BILL PARCELLS Sometimes you're not always on or at your best, especially during auditions. So if you go in and... JACK HUSTON Don't believe the hype. I don't care how many number ones you have at the box office, I don&... TYLER PERRY Normally, most writers don't say, 'I'm going into a mild hypnotic trance.' Typically... MADISON SMARTT BELL In literature classes, you don't learn about genes; in physics classes you don't learn about... DAVID CHRISTIAN Driving a cab is not really a nurturing type of relationship. You take people and they tip you, they... PAM GRIER You gotta learn that if you don't get it by midnight, chances are you ain't gonna get it, an... CASEY STENGEL I don't think anybody ever really just retires where they don't do anything. OZZIE SMITH To me, acting is like a party. It's like a fun thing to do. You don't have to worry. You don... ROB REINER Most awards, you know, they don't give you unless you go and get them - did you know that? Terri... BARBRA STREISAND You can put wings on a pig, but you don't make it an eagle. WILLIAM J. CLINTON When you're young, you don't know what you don't know, so it's easier to get into th... GREG RUSEDSKI I don't care what you say about me anymore! I don't care what you write about me anymore. I ... GERRY COONEY I love being married: you don't have to go out, you don't have to be on the prowl, and you d... AVIVA After a while, you just don't do things you don't wanna do - that's the great freedom yo... NICK CAVE If you always have a crutch, you don't learn anything. BEN SAVAGE Liberals seem to assume that, if you don't believe in their particular political solutions, then... THOMAS SOWELL Let me tell you about being executive producer. It is not a job, it's a title. Don't go arou... MORGAN FREEMAN Winning is an amazing feeling. You don't get that in business; you don't get that in many th... TONY FERNANDES You must accept that you might fail; then, if you do your best and still don't win, at least you... ROSALYNN CARTER I don't get controversial, I don't get political and I don't tell you what to do with yo... GABRIEL IGLESIAS Don't you find that the more you know, the more you don't know and can't ever learn beca... LARRY HAGMAN There have been times where I've said, 'Jesus, I don't believe in you anymore, get out o... MIKE YACONELLI The thing is, the studio then forget that you're an actor and that you can do other things, and ... CHARLES S. DUTTON Don't ever forget two things I'm going to tell you. One, don't believe everything that... BABE RUTH The thing I find really scary about ghosts and demons is that you don't really know what they ar... OREN PELI Don't turn away from possible futures before you're certain you don't have anything to l... RICHARD BACH If you don't find time to meditate and get all that negative out, and if you don't have the ... NATE DIAZ There are only two guidelines in good sex, don't do anything you don't really enjoy and find... ALEX COMFORT If you don't learn to laugh at troubles, you won't have anything to laugh at when you grow o... E. W. HOWE You gotta know that you're better than anybody, 'cause to me, if you don't go in like th... STUART SCOTT Americans... still believe in an America where anything's possible - they just don't think t... BARACK OBAMA People always ask, 'Man, why don't you come out and enjoy it? Why don't you celebrate? W... J. J. WATT You get those hunger pains. 'I am so hungry. We don't have any food. What are we going to ea... BEN MCLEMORE I firmly believe that you live and learn, and if you don't learn from past mistakes, then you ne... R. LEE ERMEY Being cool is when you win, you don't get too happy; and when you lose, you don't get too ma... ICE T When you're doing a job, you go out there and do it to the best of your ability and you don'... MICHELLE FAIRLEY You can't do anything to help your team win when you don't play. FREDDY ADU It's amazing how much trouble you can get in when you don't have anything else to do. QUINCY JONES If you don't believe you don't belong. ALAN KULWICKI A lot of the problems teenagers go through, it's better for them to go through them on their own... BEN SAVAGE I didn't go to high school. I think that after you learn to read and write and do your numbers a... WILFORD BRIMLEY You always think that 70 is the end of the road: 'Somebody died when they were 73; good life'... IAN MCKELLEN I don't develop anything. I don't practice, I don't rehearse. I just go out there, and i... TORY LANEZ I don't think anything is unrealistic if you believe you can do it. RICHARD L. EVANS Touring is tough. You're almost in a haze because you don't really know where you are half t... VANESSA HUDGENS If you don't have a valentine, hang out with your girlfriends, don't go looking for someone.... CARMEN ELECTRA I don't know anything about music. In my line you don't have to. ELVIS PRESLEY Whatever you do, be happy with you. Don't conform. You are who you are, and you shouldn't ch... AIMEE TEEGARDEN Americans don't learn about the world; they don't study world history, other than American h... ZBIGNIEW BRZEZINSKI If you're quiet, and you don't speak out, you're never going to get anything accomplishe... CARLI LLOYD You don't know what unconditional love is. You may say you do, but if you don't have a child... REGINA KING You cheat yourself when you don't do what it is you're supposed to do. You have an obligatio... MARLA GIBBS Folks have to pin me down because, for one thing, I don't have a laptop. I don't have an iPh... DAN AYKROYD You don't just win an Oscar because you're a great actor. You campaign for that Oscar: you e... DAVID HAREWOOD Nearly every coach I've talked with tells me that the attention you get from media and other peo... BEAR BRYANT You know, last season I didn't do anything on the show, so I was frustrated. I mean, don't g... LORRAINE BRACCO First, people don't read novels off screens, and they don't have a tendency to shell out rea... JACK L. CHALKER Auditioning and actually acting on a set are two different things. When you audition, you're in ... ADELAIDE KANE The great thing about doing a play is you get this rehearsal period, which you don't get with mo... CHARLIE COX It's funny when people ask an actor what they want to play next, because you don't get to de... DYLAN WALSH Go up in an airplane. Go high enough, and it's like we don't even exist. MUHAMMAD ALI If you care about yourself and what you do, you get nervous about it. You just don't take the mo... RACHEL TICOTIN Anything that exists on the human palette is, from my point of view, fair game for artists to portra... TOBIN BELL Don't make an opinion on me if you don't know nothin' about me. LIL WAYNE You have to remind casting directors out here that you don't just do one thing. There's a lo... STEPHEN ROOT When I was younger, I was a bit of a feisty fighter type of guy. That's something my father told... NATE ROBINSON A fellow who has a funny bone can learn to hone his skills, but I don't think you can develop a ... CARL REINER Do you remember when you found out you wouldn't live forever? People don't talk about this, ... DAVID CRONENBERG
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CHUCK HAGEL The final line in the Second Amendment says, 'The right of the people to keep and bear arms shal... CHUCK NORRIS Fog and smog should not be confused and are easily separated by color. CHUCK JONES Right is right, and wrong is wrong, and when people start getting it confused, that means they need ... CHUCK D Why is it you feel like a dope if you laugh alone, but that's usually how you end up crying? CHUCK PALAHNIUK Our foreign policy needs to support our energy, economic, defense and domestic policies. It all fall... CHUCK HAGEL The unreal is more powerful than the real, because nothing is as perfect as you can imagine it, beca... CHUCK PALAHNIUK The Midwest is a musical melting pot and the source and birthplace of several musical genres. CHUCK INGLISH I have to think as Bugs Bunny, not of Bugs Bunny. CHUCK JONES What was Bruce Lee like? How did you meet? What was it like to choreograph the fight scene in Rome w... CHUCK NORRIS I worked on a farm. 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CHUCK PALAHNIUK There are only patterns, patterns on top of patterns, patterns that affect other patterns. Patterns ... CHUCK PALAHNIUK We'll be remembered more for what we destroy than what we create. CHUCK PALAHNIUK The unreal is more powerful than the real. Because nothing is as perfect as you can imagine it. Beca... CHUCK PALAHNIUK Why do I do anything?' she says. 'I'm educated enough to talk myself out of any plan. To deconstruct... CHUCK PALAHNIUK A good story should make you laugh, and a moment later break your heart. CHUCK PALAHNIUK You realize that our mistrust of the future makes it hard to give up the past. CHUCK PALAHNIUK You know how both life and porno movies end. The only difference is life starts with the orgasm. CHUCK PALAHNIUK What people forget is a journey to nowhere starts with a single step, too. CHUCK PALAHNIUK When did the future switch from being a promise to being a threat? CHUCK PALAHNIUK I love the way music inside a car makes you feel invisible; if you play the stereo at max volume, it... CHUCK KLOSTERMAN A menos que todo empeore, nada puede mejorar. CHUCK PALAHNIUK You know how they say you only hurt the ones you love? Well, it works both ways. CHUCK PALAHNIUK What I want is to be needed. What I need is to be indispensable to somebody. Who I need is somebody ... CHUCK PALAHNIUK No matter how much you love someone, you still want to have you own way. CHUCK PALAHNIUK A girl calls and asks, "Does it hurt very much to die?" "Well, sweetheart," I tell her, "yes, b... CHUCK PALAHNIUK It's discouraging to make a mistake, but it's humiliating when you find out you're so unimportant th... CHUCK DALY Always have a plan, and believe in it. Nothing happens by accident. CHUCK KNOX Playing safe is only playing. CHUCK OLSON Practice without improvement is meaningless. CHUCK KNOX It's not the bulls and bears you need to avoid -- it's the bum steers. 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CHUCK TANNER The laws that keep us safe, these same laws condemn us to boredom. CHUCK PALAHNIUK The first step to eternal life, is you have to die. CHUCK PALAHNIUK If you wake up at a different time, in a different place, could you wake up as a different person? CHUCK PALAHNIUK If death meant just leaving the stage long enough to change costume and come back as a new character... CHUCK PALAHNIUK When we don't know who to hate, we hate ourselves. CHUCK PALAHNIUK When nobody will look at you, you can stare a hole in them. Picking out all the little details you'd... CHUCK PALAHNIUK [T]here's no bad day that can't be overcome by listening to a barbershop quartet; this is just truth... CHUCK SIGARS Calendars are for careful people, not passionate ones. CHUCK SIGARS You can't base your life on the past or the present. You have to tell me about your future. CHUCK PALAHNIUK On a long enough timeline. The survival rate for everyone drops to zero. CHUCK PALAHNIUK Your parents, they give you your life, but then they try to give you their life. CHUCK PALAHNIUK As a former Airman First Class in the United States Air Force, like many veterans in America, my mil... CHUCK NORRIS I dread the promotion part of my job. It's agony, especially compared to the private, at-home jo... CHUCK PALAHNIUK If you want to release your aggression, get up and dance. That's what rock and roll is all about... CHUCK BERRY Our alliances should be understood as a means to expand our influence, not as a constraint on our po... CHUCK HAGEL A face is a road map of someone's life. Without any need to amplify that or draw attention to it... CHUCK CLOSE Commonly, athletes will bolster their dietary intake with everyday vitamins such as magnesium and ir... CHUCK NORRIS Maybe humans are just the pet alligators that God flushed down the toilet. CHUCK PALAHNIUK It amazes me when I hear people say, 'I want to go out and find out who I am.' I always knew... 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