"When I was picked to fly the X-1,……" — Chuck Yeager
"When I was picked to fly the X-1, it was my duty to fly it, and I did."
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Chuck Yeager
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26 Quotes by Chuck Yeager
Chuck Yeager has 26 quotes on this site.
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The first time I ever saw a jet, I shot it down.
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After about 30 minutes I puked all over my airplane. I said to my self, "Man, you made a big…
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I have flown in just about everything, with all kinds of pilots in all parts of the world - British,…
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All that I am ... I owe to the Air Force.
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There is no such thing as a natural born pilot. Whatever my aptitudes or talents, becoming a proficient pilot was…
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The best pilots fly more than the others; that's why they're the best.
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What good does it do to be afraid? It doesn't help anything. You better try and figure out what's happening…
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Unfortunately, many people do not consider fun an important item on their daily agenda. For me, that was always a…
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At the moment of truth, there are either reasons or results.
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Later, I realized that the mission had to end in a let-down because the real barrier wasn't in the sky…
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Never wait for trouble.
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That to me is a bunch of crap trying to shoot guys up into damned space. What they're going to…
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More Duty Quotes
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In doing what we ought we deserve no praise, because it is our duty.
— Saint Augustine
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No eulogy is due to him who simply does his duty and nothing more.
— Saint Augustine
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A powerful attraction exists, therefore, to the promotion of a study and of duties of all others engrossing the time…
— Charles Babbage
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Those from whose pocket the salary is drawn, and by whose appointment the officer was made, have always a right…
— Charles Babbage
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We never fail when we try to do our duty, we always fail when we neglect to do it.
— Robert Baden-Powell
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Doing what you do well is death. Your duty is to keep trying to do things that you don't do…
— John Banville
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We are all one - or at least we should be - and it is our job, our duty, and…
— Roy Barnes
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We'll try to cooperate fully with the IRS, because, as citizens, we feel a strong patriotic duty not to go…
— Dave Barry
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An artist has every right - one may even say a duty - to exhibit his productions as prominently as…
— Jacques Barzun
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The liberties of our country, the freedom of our civil constitution, are worth defending against all hazards: And it is…
— Samuel Adams
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Presidents have the right to nominate their own cabinet secretaries. But their nominees don't have a right to confirmation. Senators…
— Gary Bauer
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Defending the truth is not something one does out of a sense of duty or to allay guilt complexes, but…
— Simone de Beauvoir
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