"The Japanese position was hopeless even before the first atomic bomb fell because the Japanese had lost control of their own air."

-- Henry H. Arnold

#Air Quotes #Bombs Quotes #Firsts Quotes

“You can take a Jew out of a shtetl, but you cannot take a shtetl out of a Jew.”

Source : "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.
“Marriage is a big adjustment for anyone - male or female. There is no guarantee that a person who has become set in his or her ways can successfully make that transition.”
“Never did I want to call the first time-out during a game. Never. I wanted UCLA to come out and run our opponents so hard that they would be forced to call the first time-out just to catch their breath. At that first time-out the opponents would know, and we would know that they knew, who was in better condition. This has a psychological impact.”
“I want my son to become Sachin Tendulkar.”
“Think 100 times before you take a decision, But once that decision is taken, stand by it as one man.”
“I'm a former skydiver, I jumped out of all kinds of things including a hot air balloon. Ironically, once I started skydiving, I felt nervous not having my rig on in case the plane went down because I wasn't used to landing.”

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“I'm not really involved with politics... I'm living in my cocoon with my classical music around.”
“I attended the bedside of a friend who was dying in a Dublin hospital. She lived her last hours in a public ward with a television blaring out a football match, all but drowning our final conversation.”

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