Douglas Bader quote: "I then realized my appearance was a bit odd. My right leg was no longer with me. It had caught somewhere in the top of the cockpit as I tried to leave my Spitfire."

Don't listen to anyone who tells you that you can't do this or that. That's nonsense. Make up your m...
DOUGLAS BADER

Rules are for the obedience of fools and the guidance of wise men.
DOUGLAS BADER

The sea from Dunkirk to Dover during these days of the evacuation looked like any coastal road in En...
DOUGLAS BADER

I have to call it an accident.
DOUGLAS BADER

Like the Spitfire it was immensely strong: a pilot had no need to fear the danger of pulling the win...
DOUGLAS BADER

The successful pilots succeeded because they did not open fire until they were close to the target.
DOUGLAS BADER

We were trying to make a movie that was funny, but also trying to be smart about being funny. We jus...
ANDY BADER

On one hand it is truly independent cinema. We were just a couple of interested people who decided t...
ANDY BADER

We were working as much as we could to buy Gatorade here and there.
ANDY BADER

We had absolutely nothing to lose, so we went into it with a mindset of 'Why not?' and things just s...
ANDY BADER

It's ridiculous if you're looking at onramps as congestion relief.
BRETT BADER

We need new pavement that people can drive their cars on. Onramps and new HOV lanes don't reduce con...
BRETT BADER

I certainly think our opponent's lies and scare tactics have had an effect, but I think I-912 is goi...
BRETT BADER

Their priorities are out of whack.
BRETT BADER

We don't have the big bucks, so we have to focus on grassroots and targeted advertising.
BRETT BADER

The math is tough in the Senate, but they (Republicans) should pick up House seats. I don't see how ...
BRETT BADER

The thought hasn't cross my mind.
BRETT BADER

The problem is not money. The problem is priorities and leadership.
BRETT BADER

They could have built a new viaduct; instead, they chose to build a monorail, light rail and two sta...
BRETT BADER

I think it would have been far more damaging if it would have been someone like Karl Rove (who was i...
BRETT BADER

One of the defining things about my career on camera is I like to play different characters. That ge...
DIEDRICH BADER

The intensity of doing a piece of this size is daunting.
GRETTA BADER

I'm sure you can appreciate how frustrating it is being one step removed.
GREG BADER

It's something I've been around for some time. The coaches make it a great atmosphere for us. We're ...
GREG BADER

It's very important to him. Coach Russo has put a lot of work into it, and many of his teams have go...
GREG BADER

The fact that they are having both number plans is a good solution.
GREG BADER

The hope was that you would emphasize Fulbright's intense interest in education and the clear impact...
GRETTA BADER

[Fulbright was] always a wonderful, warm, intelligent human being. I enjoyed his intensity. ... You ...
GRETTA BADER

He was possibly the brightest human being I've ever engaged in conversation.
GRETTA BADER

I like working where people live or work, because they're relaxed. I don't have to entertain them.
GRETTA BADER

Your whole face changes when you're talking about something.
GRETTA BADER

The Chinese are trying to demonstrate that they are not only the world's largest country but a major...
JEFFREY BADER

Americans are just beginning to catch up to the significance of what's been happening in China, and ...
JEFFREY BADER

I think this is mostly a workmanlike visit, where there are not going to be great achievements.
JEFF BADER

We have three big shows on Sunday, so there will be pressure to spread the wealth.
JEFF BADER

There's no buzz, no breakout star. There's nobody to wrap our arms around.
JEFF BADER

We're not throwing in the towel; we're still programming aggressively. But the combination of the Ol...
JEFF BADER

We believe in 'Commander In Chief' and want to do what we think is best for its long-term prospects....
JEFF BADER

I am fearful, or suspicious, of generalizations... They cannot guide me reliably in making decisions...
RUTH BADER GINSBURG

The emphasis must be not on the right to abortion but on the right to privacy and reproductive contr...
RUTH BADER GINSBERG

I do a variety of weight-lifting, elliptical glider, stretching exercises, push-ups. And I do the Ca...
RUTH BADER GINSBURG

Remember that before 'Roe v. Wade' was decided, there were four states that allowed abortion...
RUTH BADER GINSBURG

I was part of Jazzercise class. It was an aerobics routine accompanied by loud music, sounding quite...
RUTH BADER GINSBURG

The entering class I joined in 1956 included just nine women, up from five in the then second-year c...
RUTH BADER GINSBURG

Undocumented aliens unfortunately are not protected by the law, and they are tremendously subjected ...
RUTH BADER GINSBURG

The concern was that if a woman was doing gender equality, her chances of making it to tenure in the...
RUTH BADER GINSBURG

You can't have it all, all at once. Who - man or woman - has it all, all at once? Over my lifesp...
RUTH BADER GINSBURG

We will never see a day when women of means are not able to get a safe abortion in this country.
RUTH BADER GINSBURG

How fortunate I was to be alive and a lawyer when, for the first time in United States history, it b...
RUTH BADER GINSBURG

People who have been hardworking, tax paying, those people ought to be given an opportunity to be on...
RUTH BADER GINSBURG

I really concentrate on what's on my plate at the moment and do the very best I can.
RUTH BADER GINSBURG

We have the oldest written constitution still in force in the world, and it starts out with three wo...
RUTH BADER GINSBURG

At Cornell University, my professor of European literature, Vladimir Nabokov, changed the way I read...
RUTH BADER GINSBURG

So that's the dissenter's hope: that they are writing not for today but for tomorrow.
RUTH BADER GINSBURG

Reproductive choice has to be straightened out. There will never be a woman of means without choice ...
RUTH BADER GINSBURG

Throwing out preclearance when it has worked and is continuing to work to stop discriminatory change...
RUTH BADER GINSBURG

Who will take responsibility for raising the next generation?
RUTH BADER GINSBURG

Dissents speak to a future age.
RUTH BADER GINSBURG

If I had any talent that God could give me, I would be a great diva.
RUTH BADER GINSBURG

I would not look to the U.S. Constitution if I were drafting a constitution in 2012.
RUTH BADER GINSBURG

I'm a very strong believer in listening and learning from others.
RUTH BADER GINSBURG

Women will only have true equality when men share with them the responsibility of bringing up the ne...
RUTH BADER GINSBURG

If you're going to change things, you have to be with the people who hold the levers.
RUTH BADER GINSBURG

My mother told me to be a lady. And for her, that meant be your own person, be independent.
RUTH BADER GINSBURG

Fight for the things that you care about, but do it in a way that will lead others to join you.
RUTH BADER GINSBURG

America is known as a country that welcomes people to its shores. All kinds of people. The image of ...
RUTH BADER GINSBURG

I was tremendously fortunate to be alive and a lawyer, working at a university so I had more flexibl...
RUTH BADER GINSBURG

The Sixth Amendment secures to persons charged with crime the right to be tried by an impartial jury...
RUTH BADER GINSBURG

I think a law clerk told me about this tumblr and also explained to me what Notorious RBG was a paro...
RUTH BADER GINSBURG

Feminism... I think the simplest explanation, and one that captures the idea, is a song that Marlo T...
RUTH BADER GINSBURG

I've had two cancer bouts in my years on the Court, and the first one, Justice O'Connor told...
RUTH BADER GINSBURG

When I was growing up, there were no women in orchestras. Auditioners thought they could tell the di...
RUTH BADER GINSBURG

All respect for the office of the presidency aside, I assumed that the obvious and unadulterated dec...
RUTH BADER GINSBURG

Whatever final judgment awaits 'Bush v. Gore' in the annals of history, I am certain that th...
RUTH BADER GINSBURG

The state controlling a woman would mean denying her full autonomy and full equality.
RUTH BADER GINSBURG

If you want to influence people, you want them to accept your suggestions, you don't say, 'Y...
RUTH BADER GINSBURG

I don't think that a Justice should have uppermost in her mind, 'A Democratic president appo...
RUTH BADER GINSBURG

I think unconscious bias is one of the hardest things to get at.
RUTH BADER GINSBURG

Not a law firm in the entire city of New York bid for my employment as a lawyer when I earned my deg...
RUTH BADER GINSBURG

Reacting in anger or annoyance will not advance one's ability to persuade.
RUTH BADER GINSBURG

A judge sworn to decide impartially can offer no forecasts, no hints, for that would show not only d...
RUTH BADER GINSBURG

Anybody who has been discriminated against, who comes from a group that's been discriminated aga...
RUTH BADER GINSBURG

You can disagree without being disagreeable.
RUTH BADER GINSBURG

In 2015, an opera opened about me and Justice Antonin Scalia. It's called 'Scalia/Ginsburg.&...
RUTH BADER GINSBURG

It's a facet of the gay rights movement that people don't think about enough. Why suddenly m...
RUTH BADER GINSBURG

I was the first tenured woman at Columbia. That was 1972; every law school was looking for its woman...
RUTH BADER GINSBURG

When I graduated from law school in 1959, there wasn't a single woman on any federal bench. It w...
RUTH BADER GINSBURG

You would have a huge statelessness problem if you don't consider a child born abroad a U.S. citizen...
RUTH BADER GINSBURG

The notion that it is improper to look beyond the borders of the United States in grappling with har...
RUTH BADER GINSBURG

We still have many neighborhoods that are racially identified. We still have many schools that even ...
RUTH BADER GINSBURG

The label 'liberal' or 'conservative,' any - every time I hear that, I think of the ...
RUTH BADER GINSBURG

When police or prosecutors conceal significant exculpatory or impeaching material, we hold, it is or...
RUTH BADER GINSBURG

My law school class in the late 1950s numbered over 500. That class included less than 10 women.
RUTH BADER GINSBURG

People who think you could wave a magic wand and the legacy of the past will be over are blind.
RUTH BADER GINSBURG

Marty was an extraordinary person. Of all the boys I had dated, he was the only one who really cared...
RUTH BADER GINSBURG

This court should not short-circuit the normal review process absent a showing of irreparable harm s...
RUTH BADER GINSBURG

The emphasis must be not on the right to abortion but on the right to privacy and reproductive contr...
RUTH BADER GINSBURG

She never envisioned a legal career for me, but she did think it was very important that I be able t...
RUTH BADER GINSBURG

What is subtle about what is described here?
RUTH BADER GINSBURG

Had the school district, in the first instance, offered Brian a public or private school placement e...
RUTH BADER GINSBURG

A plain speaker without airs or affectations, the chief fostered a spirit of collegiality among the ...
RUTH BADER GINSBURG

We do not read (the law) to elevate accommodation of religious observances over an institution's nee...
RUTH BADER GINSBURG

My mother graduated from high school at 15 and went to work to support the family because the eldest...
RUTH BADER GINSBURG

I think Mozart's operas 'The Marriage of Figaro' and 'Don Giovanni' are the two ...
RUTH BADER GINSBURG

I was a proponent of the ERA.
RUTH BADER GINSBURG

I was a proponent of the ERA. The women of my generation and my daughter's generation, they were...
RUTH BADER GINSBURG

I do a variety of weight-lifting, elliptical glider, stretching exercises, push-ups.
RUTH BADER GINSBURG

Judges should avoid commenting on a candidate for public office.
RUTH BADER GINSBURG

My resume showed membership on both the Harvard and Columbia Law Reviews, a credit impressive abroad...
RUTH BADER GINSBURG

Religious organizations exist to foster the interests of persons subscribing to the same religious f...
RUTH BADER GINSBURG

Frankly, I had thought that at the time Roe was decided, there was concern about population growth a...
RUTH BADER GINSBURG

My mother told me to be a lady. And for her, that meant be your own person, be independent
RUTH BADER GINSBURG

A gender line... helps to keep women not on a pedestal, but in a cage.
RUTH BADER GINSBURG

The First Amendment requires us to be vigilant in making these judgments, to guard against undue hin...
RUTH BADER GINSBURG

say what the Florida law is.
RUTH BADER GINSBURG

The Ten Commandments are a powerful statement of the covenant God made with his people,
RUTH BADER GINSBURG

More than tax revenue was at stake
RUTH BADER GINSBURG

everyone on this court assumed that assisted suicide was a matter for the states.
RUTH BADER GINSBURG

The women of my generation and my daughter's generation, they were very active in moving along t...
RUTH BADER GINSBURG

Most states in the union where the death penalty is theoretically on the books don't have execut...
RUTH BADER GINSBURG

When a thoughtless or unkind word is spoken, best tune out.
RUTH BADER GINSBURG

In the '50s, too many women, even though they were very smart, they tried to make the man feel t...
RUTH BADER GINSBURG

While the scars of the monstrous Civil War still remain, the wounds have closed since 1865, in large...
DOUGLAS BRINKLEY

I have known war as few men now living know it. It's very destructiveness on both friend and foe...
DOUGLAS MACARTHUR

Man can now fly in the air like a bird, swim under the ocean like a fish, he can burrow into the gro...
TOMMY DOUGLAS

I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by.
DOUGLAS ADAMS

I don't mind being a symbol but I don't want to become a monument. There are monuments all o...
TOMMY DOUGLAS

Every chef has his treats. By that, I mean bits and pieces from things you're working on - crust...
TOM DOUGLAS

We think that the world is a solid, vivid place, full of shape and colour and solid objects like thi...
DOUGLAS ADAMS

God only knows what else is on the web about me.
ILLEANA DOUGLAS

I always wanted to get into the horror genre. I like scary movies. I want to go to the fan shows and...
ILLEANA DOUGLAS

I had an obsession that I was male characters from movies.
ILLEANA DOUGLAS

I like doing movies that relate to people's experience.
ILLEANA DOUGLAS

I loved the idea of the Nerd as Hero, which Ghost World also had.
ILLEANA DOUGLAS

I want to be an animated character. I'm also doing more writing and directing.
ILLEANA DOUGLAS

I wore a lot of vintage clothing. I dressed like a reporter, with a little card in my hat. I had the...
ILLEANA DOUGLAS

I'm a big fan of Albert Brooks, Nichols and May. I'd like to follow in their footsteps and d...
ILLEANA DOUGLAS

I'm a huge poster collector.
ILLEANA DOUGLAS

I've done a few studio films in the last few years where I feel like I've done good work, an...
ILLEANA DOUGLAS

In high school, my goal was to be a writer for SNL, then I got into the acting.
ILLEANA DOUGLAS

It was an interesting way to come across in my first big role. To work with Robert DeNiro was very e...
ILLEANA DOUGLAS

It's nice to see a movie where people are actually succeeding.
ILLEANA DOUGLAS

We were big Saturday Night Live and Eddie Murphy fans.
ILLEANA DOUGLAS

When I do a character, I try to base it on someone I have met or an experience I've had.
ILLEANA DOUGLAS

When we were doing a scene, lots of times we would collapse giggling, because it seemed so silly bec...
ILLEANA DOUGLAS

I come from a pretty strange family.
ILLEANA DOUGLAS

There's too much insecurity on studio sets, with all the people standing around, whispering.
ILLEANA DOUGLAS

The best situation is where they cast you and then they trust you.
ILLEANA DOUGLAS

Duty, Honor, Country. Those three hallowed words reverently dictate what you ought to be, what you c...
DOUGLAS MACARTHUR

It's very tough for me to focus. I'm like: 'Look, something shiny! No, focus. Oh, there ...
GABBY DOUGLAS

Smile, it's free therapy.
DOUGLAS HORTON

I was working on boats as a teenager, sweating like a pig during a summer job.
DOUGLAS LEONE

Catfish has a nice firm texture and mild flavor.
TOM DOUGLAS

The faux now of Twitter updates and things pinging at you - all the pulses from digitality that we t...
DOUGLAS RUSHKOFF

My wife and I decided to try and kick start our kitchens to a $15 minimum wage for cooks. I've p...
TOM DOUGLAS

Sometimes we spend more efforts with people that are strangers in terms of making an impression than...
MICHAEL DOUGLAS

You may have a broken heart, but you may find someone else.
DOUGLAS BOOTH

There's nothing like a family crisis, especially a divorce, to force a person to re-evaluate his...
MICHAEL DOUGLAS

I don't have a cell phone because I know how horrible it is. Using your cell phone is like putti...
DOUGLAS TOMPKINS

Slavery is not the only question which comes up in this controversy. There is a far more important o...
STEPHEN DOUGLAS

There is a theory which states that if ever anyone discovers exactly what the Universe is for and wh...
DOUGLAS ADAMS

He thinks with regret of the great days when he could at harvest time at least go down into Hungary ...
DOUGLAS REED

The sublimity of wisdom is to do those things living, which are to be desired when dying.
NORMAN DOUGLAS

What is all wisdom save a collection of platitudes?
NORMAN DOUGLAS

To find a friend one must close one eye - to keep him, two.
NORMAN DOUGLAS

You can tell the ideals of a nation by its advertising.
NORMAN DOUGLAS

This must be Thursday. I never could get the hang of Thursdays.
DOUGLAS ADAMS

In 2012, the city of Austin erected an eight-foot-tall bronze statue of Willie Nelson in the heart o...
DOUGLAS BRINKLEY

With 'Black Rain,' I spent a lot of time with homicide detectives, and I spent a lot of time...
MICHAEL DOUGLAS

If you're part of the Network Generation, you don't have to belong just to one nation. Dual ...
DOUGLAS ALEXANDER

Because the Internet is so new, we still don't really understand what it is. We mistake it for a...
DOUGLAS ADAMS

There were three Selma-to-Montgomery marches in March 1965, and Rosa Parks had missed the first one....
DOUGLAS BRINKLEY

When you put an individual on the cover of a big picture magazine, like 'Life of Look', thei...
DOUGLAS KIRKLAND

When I was 8 years old, I made my own encyclopedia of American biography - Johnny Appleseed, Jim Bow...
DOUGLAS BRINKLEY

Whoever said the pen is mightier than the sword obviously never encountered automatic weapons.
DOUGLAS MACARTHUR

People who are sensible about love are incapable of it.
DOUGLAS YATES

The British actors I've met and worked with have all been very supportive of each other.
DOUGLAS BOOTH

This Network Generation have grown up in a connected world. With Skype, Facebook, Twitter and the In...
DOUGLAS ALEXANDER

Most of us still haven't grasped the fact that everything we commit to the digital space - not j...
DOUGLAS RUSHKOFF

Our country is now geared to an arms economy bred in an artificially induced psychosis of war hyster...
DOUGLAS MACARTHUR

I don't think tablets are where we should be focused. But I do think they could end up being an ...
DOUGLAS RUSHKOFF

When we settled our country, the dark forest was considered in some ways evil and something that you...
DOUGLAS BRINKLEY

I get verklempt if I see a vintage TI-30 or TI-54 calculator. But I don't think I'd want to ...
DOUGLAS COUPLAND

No matter how invasive the technologies at their disposal, marketers and pollsters never come to ter...
DOUGLAS RUSHKOFF

Most people that derail as leaders in the corporate world, it's not because they couldn't do...
DOUGLAS CONANT

It's very important that we keep these special, wild places. It defines the United States. Imagi...
DOUGLAS BRINKLEY

Who doesn't love digging into a plate of crab cakes or going after a chilled cracked crab with c...
TOM DOUGLAS

I got my feet wet in a couple of shows. I did a cameo on my favorite show, 'The Vampire Diaries....
GABBY DOUGLAS

When I arrived at Campbell on January 8, 2001, the company had lost half its market value in the pri...
DOUGLAS CONANT

A man in a bookstore buys a book on loneliness and every woman in the store hits on him. A woman buy...
DOUGLAS COUPLAND

When I was a kid and my mom made tomato soup, she would cut buttered toast into squares and float th...
TOM DOUGLAS

I'm all for guys being butch and guys being men. I identify with that and appreciate that. But i...
KYAN DOUGLAS

I wanted to tell my story and where I came from and my background, because it was not easy.
GABBY DOUGLAS

It's just incredible how people come up to me and say, 'Gabby, you inspire me to do anything...
GABBY DOUGLAS

I would love to be a role model.
GABBY DOUGLAS

I wear makeup pretty much every day. For training, I usually do a lighter base, a lighter blush and ...
GABBY DOUGLAS

My mom used to tell me when I was little, 'When it rains, it's God's manifestation - a b...
GABBY DOUGLAS

You've got to be confident when you're competing. You've got to be a beast.
GABBY DOUGLAS

I've learned how to stay humble. I don't want to get in over my head because when you do tha...
GABBY DOUGLAS

Gospel music always relaxes me and calms my nerves.
GABBY DOUGLAS

I then realized my appearance was a bit odd. My right leg was no longer with me. It had caught somewhere in the top of the cockpit as I tried to leave my Spitfire.

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