"It became the middle finger I couldnâ€™t raise in PR photographs. The mustache became my silent last word in the verbal battles I was losing with higher headquarters on rules, targets, and fighting the war."

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Source : Christina Olds, Ed Rasimus, Robin Olds (2010). “Fighter Pilot: The Memoirs of Legendary Ace Robin Olds”, p.284, Macmillan

Robin Olds

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“Do you think anger is a sincere emotion or the timid motion of a fragile heart trying to beat away its pain?”
“I don't know if you're married, but sometimes there are times where one is really together with their partner. And then there are times when you're both just in your own thing, but you're there together.”
“I thought it out this very day, Noon upon the clock, A man may put pretence away Who leans upon a stick, May sing, and sing until he drop, Whether to maid or hag....”
“Playing guitar is not a beauty contest.”
“The red carpet is not something I really know how to work. It intimidates me. I feel very tiny.”
“I think that nonexistent mythological creature just broke some of your toes," Jack said. Oh, shut up," said Charles”
“Everyone is necessarily the hero of his own life story.”

Source : "How to Seek Heroism in Demands" by Grande Lum, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 10, 2009.
“When you're a kid, if you watch 'The Jeffersons' with your family at seven o'clock, it seems like a natural phenomenon, like the sun setting. The universe is a strange, strange place when all of a sudden you can't use your glass with the Bionic Woman on it any more.”

Source : Heather O'Neill (2009). “Lullabies for Little Criminals: A Novel”, p.27, Harper Collins

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