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You do what you can for as long as you can, and when you finally can't, you do the next best thing. You back up but you don't give up.


Chuck Yeager

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CHUCK PALAHNIUK When nobody will look at you, you can stare a hole in them. Picking out all the little details you'd...
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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