"We have to see that all of us are in the same boat."

-- Dorothy Height

“Aviation is going to control the world economically and militarily whether we like it or not. Airpower is not merely military aviation, it is also civilian aviation and airpower is peace power.”
“It is not the clear-sighted who rule the world. Great achievements are accomplished in a blessed, warm fog.”

Source : 1915 Victory, author's note.
“There were some memories, though, that never faded.”
“I won! I won! I don't have to go to school anymore.”
“I hate to say this, but one of the biggest distractions can be friends and family. You want them to be there and support you, but when you need to get your rest or focus, you need to communicate that to them.”
“The cruellest thing you can do to Kerouac is reread him at thirty-eight.”
“Be congruent, be authentic, be your true self.”
“[My early performance work] started by being the activity of a person, any person, like any other - but once that person became photographed it became a specialized person, the object of a personality cult.”

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