Jet Quotes - Page 13

• The first time I ever saw a jet, I shot it down.

  Chuck Yeager

  Military, Saws, Firsts

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• Why not go to war just for oil? We need oil. What do Hollywood celebrities imagine fuels their private jets? How do they think their cocaine is delivered to them?

  Ann Coulter

  War, Thinking, Oil

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• It's like flying jet fighters in a gymnasium

  Dick Trickle

  Car, Flying, Fighter

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• I recently learned something quite interesting about video games. Many young people have developed incredible hand, eye, and brain coordination in playing these games. The air force believes these kids will be our outstanding pilots should they fly our jets.

  Ronald Reagan

  Believe, Kids, Eye

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• The U.S. government is selling $30 billion worth of fighter jets to Saudi Arabia. Yeah, it's part of a new initiative called, 'Operation Regret This In Five Years.'

  Jimmy Fallon

  Regret, Government, Years

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• Jet lag is for amateurs.

  Dick Clark

  Inspirational, Funny, Travel

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• I'm leaving on a jet plane
  Don't know when I'll be back again

  John Denver

  Song, Travel, Leaving

  "Leaving on a Jet Plane" (song) (1967)

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• I never intended to become a professional pilot. But, as I became more curious about aircraft, and, well, not being John Travolta, I realized that the only way I was ever going to fly a jet is if I got a job.

  Bruce Dickinson

  Jobs, Pilots, Way

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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  I'm Ric Flair! The Stylin', profilin', limousine riding, jet flying, kiss-stealing, wheelin' n' dealin' son of a gun!

  Ric Flair

  Son, Kissing, Gun

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• For as long as I can remember, I have been passionately intrigued by 'Africa,' by the word itself, by its flora and fauna, its topographical diversity and grandeur; but above all else, by the sheer variety of the colors of its people, from tan and sepia to jet and ebony.

  Henry Louis Gates

  Color, Long, People

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• Now my dad is with me, traveling with me and a big part of this whole thing is I like to mix it up a little bit, you know. Who gets to take their father on a private jet across the country and stay in first class hotels? So we're enjoying it, but I'd stop if it's not possible.

  Shia LaBeouf

  Country, Dad, Father

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• I have two sons in America, and all they care about in Chinese culture is Jackie Chan and Jet Li.

  Ang Lee

  Son, America, Two

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• A good martial artist does not become tend but ready, not thinking but jet not dreaming. Ready for whatever may come.

  Bruce Lee

  Dream, Art, Thinking

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• If we choose to keep those tax breaks for millionaires and billionaires, if we choose to keep a tax break for corporate jet owners, if we choose to keep tax breaks for oil and gas companies that are making hundreds of billions of dollars, then that means we've got to cut some kids off from getting a college scholarship.

  Barack Obama

  Mean, Kids, Cutting

  News conference in the East Wing, www.nytimes.com. June 29, 2011.

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• To be a writer is to sit down at one's desk in the chill portion of every day, and to write; not waiting for the little jet of the blue flame of genius to start from the breastbone - just plain going at it, in pain and delight. To be a writer is to throw away a great deal, not to be satisfied, to type again, and then again, and once more, and over and over...

  John Hersey

  Pain, Writing, Flames

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• Success isn't about winning everything; it’s about achieving your dream, be that teaching middle school or flying jets. And no matter what we as individual women want, no matter what our goals, we have to support one another.

  Zosia Mamet

  Dream, Teaching, School

  "Zosia Mamet Says You Don’t Have To Be Hillary, Bey Or Oprah To Be Successful" By Alanna Vagianos, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 21, 2014.

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• Have you ever watched the jet cars race on the boulevard?...I sometimes think drivers don’t know what grass is, or flowers, because they never see them slowly...If you showed a driver a green blur, Oh yes! He'd say, that’s grass! A pink blur! That’s a rose garden! White blurs are houses. Brown blurs are cows.

  Ray Bradbury

  Flower, Garden, Thinking

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• My Dad says that being a Londoner has nothing to do with where you're born. He says that there are people who get off a jumbo jet at Heathrow, go through immigration waving any kind of passport, hop on the tube and by the time the train's pulled into Piccadilly Circus they've become a Londoner.

  Ben Aaronovitch

  Dad, People, Immigration

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• The ability to row in any conditions, raging crosswind, two-foot tall jet ski wakes, torrential downpour, is absolutely essential in order to be a champion sculler. It all comes under the heading of boatmanship. Some races are won on nothing more than superior boatmanship.

  Brad Alan Lewis

  Motivational, Race, Order

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• Once I was a scuba diver in the sea of words. Now I zip along the surface like a guy on a Jet Ski.

  Nicholas G. Carr

  Sea, Guy, Scuba Divers

  "Is Google Making Us Stupid?". www.theatlantic.com. July/August 2008.

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• I didn't go around the world, I went around the world on a private jet. I didn't have a hotel room, we had an entire floor. We were spoiled.

  Ricky Martin

  World, Rooms, Spoiled

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• Israel uses sophisticated attack jets and naval vessels to bomb densely-crowded refugee camps, schools, apartment blocks, mosques, and slums to attack a population that has no air force, no air defense, no navy, no heavy weapons, no artillery units, no mechanized armor, no command in control, no army and calls it a war.

  Noam Chomsky

  War, Block, Islamic

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• I mean, I'd love to have a private jet - I know people who fly by private jet all the time... I've hitched a ride a few times and it is not overrated at all; it's a great way to travel!

  Marc Jacobs

  Travel, Mean, People

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• Martin Noakes is a British conspiracy theorist who also happens to be maybe the best songwriter in the world, in my opinion. His songs are beautiful. They're crazy. That 9/11 song... no song has ever gotten into my head more. And it's inappropriate. You can't just like walk around singing about "jet fuel doesn't melt steel."

  Joe Mande

  Beautiful, Song, Crazy

  Source: tv.avclub.com

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• All tours are filled with humiliation. My publisher once hired a private jet to fly me to a venue where 1,000 people were waiting. It almost bankrupted him.

  Alain de Botton

  People, Waiting, Humiliation

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