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When I get on a plane, I don't want a laid-back pilot. I want a pilot who is a control freak, who is paying attention to every single detail of his job.

If I went back to college again, I'd concentrate on learning to write and to speak before an audience . Nothing is more important than the abillity to communicate effectively.

What does remembering ourselves mean? It essentially means coming back to life- re-membering.

Now Im back home, living in London, running my theater. I just want to enjoy all that.

One thing I know about Willie Hutch: my homie, [Big] Jerm, listens to nothing but Soul music, so he put me on to all this Soul music back in the day.

Jesse Jackson has to get back to "I am somebody" instead of "I am some color."

Friends are always friends no matter how far you have to travel back in time. If you have memories together, there is always a piece of your friendship inside your heart.

We made a big mistake 300 years ago when we separated technology and humanism. It's time to put the two back together.

Let us return back to the peace process for our children and for their children. The peace of the brave which I have signed is my debt, part in our love for [Isaac] Rabin.

I ran right back to work. My back was just destroyed after pregnancy. I almost had to have surgery, until I did Pilates and rebuilt my body.

I had an opportunity many, many times to go to the Playboy Mansion with Hugh Hefner. Jerry Buss asked me many times and you know what, looking back that was stupid of me not going there.

I liked to think I had written 'scripts' when I was in high school, but looking back at them, they were about thirty pages of wannabe-Mamet dialogue with a staple through them.

Those who enter through the back door can expect to be shown out through the window

Every year it's one more step closer, and then at the end you get to the top and you fall back down. It's crazy.

We loved being in Russia and would love to go back again, especially to visit my namesake

I pissed away over ten million dollars On dope and crack I passed away deader than a door knob But now I'm back

The idea of holding back certainly didn't come from Scripture.

It was great. We knew we were going back when we finished the movie. It was such a big movie [Star Wars].

I thought about going back to working at the gas station. I probably didn't like it at the time, but now it seems very romantic.

You run back and forth listening for unusual events, peering into the faces of travelers. "Why are you looking at me like a madman?" I have lost a friend. Please forgive me.

I just want to work with talented people who are enjoyable to be with, and take big huge risks from high comedy to deep, dark, brooding drama, to thriller. I just want to go back and forth.

The art of longing's over, and it's never coming back.

I turn all thorn then, but you come back again and make my thorniness fragrant and pink and petaled.

Look as long as you can at the friend you love, no matter whether that friend is moving away from you or coming back toward you.

I'm not worried about facing the Sacramento Queens. Write it down. Take a picture. I'm not going to talk about this all year. When I get back, there's going to be trouble.

It thrilled through him when he first felt the keel answer to his hand on the spokes and slide over the long hollows as the foresail scythed back and forth against the blue sky.

Surrender is a perfectly acceptable alternative in extreme circumstances.

It's not a question of money anymore. I spend money like it's nothing. You know, I could be penniless tomorrow, but I'd get back, somehow.

When the Korean economy was just trying to get back on its feet after the war, having parks was a luxury

Baseball and malaria keep coming back.

I'm tipping the hat and looking back.

Honestly, that is the most important thing to me: Can I continue to live up to my own expectations of myself - and not fall back into slacking?

Just try to keep your head above water until the boys get back. It's as simple as that.

We're so bad right now that for us back-to-back home runs means one today and another one tomorrow.

People respond faster to you on a text than an e-mail. Why is that? Why will they ignore an e-mail, but get back to a text?

When my own son is going through what he goes through, coming back, I can certainly relate with other families, who kind of fill these ramifications of some PTSD.

Spring was coming back with the old promise, demanding the old sacrifice.

Once discover comfort, and there is no turning back.

Until presence becomes your predominant state, you may find yourself moving back and forth for a while between the old consciousness and the new, between mind identification and presence.

Old anchormen, you see, don't fade away. They just keep coming back for more. And that's the way it is, Friday, March 6, 1981.

going back and forth, back and forth, getting nowhere

For when down on the knees The man (or god) stretches the arms In giving, It is no accident the hands Are curled like bowls or cups, For he offers self, yet Begs it back again.

The hippie movement politicized my generation. When it ended, we all started looking back at our own history, looking, in my case, for motives of rebellion.

Whether you can go back in time is held in the grip of the law of quantum gravity. We are several decades away from a definitive understanding, 20 or 30 years, but it could be sooner than that.

Pilot season tends to be grueling, because you can be thrown all of these auditions at once - last-minute, always - and you're going on three a day, especially back in the day.

I can't wait to get back to New York City where at least when I walk down the streat, no one ever hesitates to tell me exactly what they think of me.

This is a tragedy for the players. Their careers are short and this is money and opportunity they'll never get back.

I do promotion when it is necessary, but I always want to get back to the music.

Most poetry in the modern age has retreated to the private sphere, turning its back on the political realm.

As a matter of fact, most cases of food poisoning are never linked back to their source.