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• I mean, you may be very mad at some guy that walked away with a huge golden parachute, but that really isn't the important thing.

  Warren Buffett

  Mean, Mad, Guy

  "Warren Buffett: I Haven't Seen As Much Economic Fear In My Adult Lifetime". "Charlie Rose", www.cnbc.com. October 1, 2008.

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• I'm not a risk taker physically. I just have no interest in swinging myself off a mountaintop or parachute gliding or skiing down a totally vertical drop. These things don't interest me in the slightest, but I get so caught up in the color or the texture of the sounds of something. That's so funny to me.

  Annie Lennox

  Color, Risk, Sound

  "Annie Lennox: Music + Passion + Freedom". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• I was a section commander in the parachute regiment [in the British army].

  Scott Raab

  Army, British, Commanders

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• In the 1980s and 1990s, Jack Welch, the CEO of General Electric, laid off over 100,000 employees. His reward? When he retired from GE, he received a golden parachute of over $400 million dollars. This is the kind of corporate greed and irresponsibility that is destroying the middle class and must be ended.

  Bernie Sanders

  Class, Greed, Rewards

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• In Italy the Coach is a paratrooper who jumps out of the plane but doesn't know if the parachute will open or not.

  Claudio Ranieri

  Planes, Paratroopers, Coaches

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• The mismanagement of American newspapering is quite remarkable. But all of the fellows responsible are now on a golf course in Hilton Head or some such (place), having secured their bonuses and golden-parachute buyouts.

  David Simon

  Golf, Bonus, Golden

  Interview with David Doody, www.utne.com. September 2011.

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• I don't think people would climb mountains or jump off bridges with parachutes or kayak Class V rapids if those things didn't offer the brief and horrible illusion of imminent death. They would just be complicated, time-consuming endeavors that we'd steer well clear of because they got in the way of real life.

  Sebastian Junger

  Real, Thinking, Bridges

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• There is just no way that I can understand in God's green earth that an airline could undertake with its normal procedures the operation of the Space Shuttle. . . . You don't put parachutes on airliners because the margin of safety is built into the machine. The 727 airplanes we fly are proven vehicles with levels of safety and redundancy built in. The shuttle is a hand-made piece of experimental gear.

  Frank Borman

  Airplane, Moon, Space

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• During the air war of 1944, a four-man combat crew on a B-17 bomber took a vow to never abandon one another no matter how desperate the situation. The aircraft was hit by flak during a mission and went into a terminal dive, and the pilot ordered everyone to bail out. The top turret gunner obeyed the order, but the ball turret gunner discovered that a piece of flak had jammed his turret and he could not get out. The other three men in his pact could have bailed out with the parachutes, but they stayed with him until the plan hit the ground and exploded. They all died.

  Sebastian Junger

  Death, War, Men

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• Psychiatry in this place is like serving an in-flight meal in the middle of a plane crash. If I wanted to make you well, as a doctor, I should be giving you a parachute, not a cheese-and-pickle sandwich.

  Chris Cleave

  Doctors, Giving, Pickles

  Chris Cleave (2012). “Chris Cleave Ebook Boxed Set: Little Bee, Incendiary, Gold”, p.167, Simon and Schuster

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• I certainly remember building model rockets. It was fun to watch the rocket blast into the air, suspenseful to wonder if the parachute would open to bring the rocket safely back.

  Eric Allin Cornell

  Fun, Air, Watches

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• If a man has a tent made of linen of which the apertures have all been stopped up, and be it twelve bracchia across (over twenty-five feet) and twelve in depth, he will be able to throw himself down from any height without sustaining injury. [His concept of the parachute.]

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Men, Feet, Twenties

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• Bigots are actually funny to me in the way that people who still wear parachute pants give me a chuckle.

  John Ridley

  People, Giving, Way

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

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• Even at this stage, my preparations were like strapping on a parachute in an airplane that was about to crash; the whole time I was preparing to hurl myself out the door, I clung to the hope that something would happen at the last minute to forestall that terrible necessity I felt-not hostility, as psychiatric texts would say, or vengeful rage, or a desire for attention. This was done in secret, out of a need to alleviate pain which was as implacable as thirst.

  Tracy Thompson

  Pain, Airplane, Suicidal

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• Starting a business is like jumping out of an airplane without a parachute. In mid air, the entrepreneur begins building a parachute and hopes it opens before hitting the ground.

  Robert Kiyosaki

  Inspiration, Airplane, Jumping

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• In my teens, I joined the Parachute Regiment. I jumped out of lots of airplanes, as much as the Government budget would allow us to. I did two active tours of duty: Northern Ireland, and then the Falklands war.

  Mark Burnett

  War, Airplane, Two

  "Mark Burnett Started His Career Jumping Out Of Airplanes And Transporting Prisoners On Ships" by Stephen Chao, www.businessinsider.com. April 21, 2011.

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• Minds, like parachutes, function better when open, but, like fists, they strike harder when closed.

  L.E. Modesitt Jr.

  Optimistic, Mind, Fists

  L. E. Modesitt, Jr. (2010). “The Parafaith War”, p.168, Macmillan

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• But I've never really done anything that implies any kind of danger. I wouldn't skydive, I wouldn't deep sea dive, I wouldn't parachute. I think you're really just rolling the dice. Who packed your chute the night before?

  Eugene Levy

  Night, Thinking, Sea

  "Eugene Levy: 'American Pie got kinda graphic'" by atherine Shoard, www.theguardian.com. April 26, 2012.

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• What you look like on the outside is not what makes you cool at all. I mean, I had a mullet and wore parachute pants for a long, long time, and I'm doin' okay.

  Ellen DeGeneres

  Beauty, Mean, Long

  "Ellen Eviscerates Abercrombie & Fitch CEO’s Anti-Plus Size Stance Brilliantly". www.huffingtonpost.com. May 20, 2013.

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• I had a vague memory of being that ridiculous at one time. Let he who hath never worn parachute pants cast the first stone.

  Jim Butcher

  Memories, Stones, Pants

  Jim Butcher (2003). “Death Masks: Book five of The Dresden Files”, p.162, Penguin Group

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• Kristen Bell is rare as an actress, because she's the type of actor who jumps out of a plane without a parachute - from a totally fearless place, which is really refreshing and inspiring.

  Steve Antin

  Fearless, Actresses, Actors

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

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• My habit of attacking Huns dangling from their parachutes led to many arguments in the mess. Some officers, of the Eton and Sandhurst type, thought it was 'unsportsmanlike' to do it. Never having been to a public school, I was unhampered by such considerations of form. I just pointed out that there was a bloody war on, and that I intended to avenge my pals.

  James Ira Thomas Jones

  War, School, Pals

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• Sometimes it is not wise to make a second plan; it diminishes the power of the first plan! In risky paths, make only one plan; this will increase the possibility of success! On the edge of a precipice, if your second plan is a parachute on your back, your possibility of falling will increase! When you have nothing to trust, you will be safer, because you have no right to make any mistake!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Success, Wise, Mistake

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• My suit blew up into a parachute. All this water rushed in, there's air, water in there. I was freaking out.

  Ryan Lochte

  Air, Water, Suits

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• I've decided that if I had my life to live over again, I would not only climb more mountains, swim more rivers, and watch more sunsets; I wouldn't only jettison my hot water bottle, raincoat, umbrella, parachute, and raft; I would not only go barefoot earlier in the spring and stay out later in the fall; but I would devote not one more minute to monitoring my spiritual growth. No, not one.

  Brennan Manning

  Spiritual, Spring, Fall

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