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When I was picked to fly the X-1, it was my duty to fly it, and I did.


Chuck Yeager

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CHUCK PALAHNIUK There are three secrets to managing. The first secret is have patience. The second is be patient. An...
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...
CHUCK BERRY I don't work with inspiration. Inspiration is for amateurs. I just get to work.
CHUCK CLOSE Disney was not a good animator, he didn't draw well at all, but he was always a great idea man, ...
CHUCK JONES I wanted to write about the moment when your addictions no longer hide the truth from you. When your...
CHUCK PALAHNIUK Jack Palance was my distant uncle - that's the family gossip. Growing up, my family knew everyth...
CHUCK PALAHNIUK