Chesley Sullenberger My wife Lorrie actually looked in the dictionary to see what the definition was of heroism because it had been used so much. She found at least one definition is someone who chooses to put themselves at risk to save another. – Chesley Sullenberger Chooses Quotes Definition Quotes Dictionary Quotes Heroism Quotes Looked Quotes Lorrie Quotes Risk Quotes Save Quotes Wife Quotes I’m less shy now than I was as a kid. After Flight 1549, my family and I had to become public figures and more complete versions of ourselves. I had to teach myself to become an effective public speaker. My father volunteered in early 1941, before Pearl Harbor, and became an officer in the U.S. Navy. As I was growing up, he taught me the responsibility of command: A leader is ultimately responsible for every aspect of the welfare of people under his or her care. That was a deeply felt obligation in his generation.
Jose Saramago The novel is not so much a literary genre, but a literary space, like a sea that is filled by many rivers. – Jose Saramago
John Tiffany I worked on new plays at the Traverse and did my best work in Scotland for years, so I never had ambitions for things like Disney. – John Tiffany
Elizabeth Blackburn For me, arguably the story of telomeres and telomerase began thousands of years ago, in the cornfields of the Maya highlands of Central America. – Elizabeth Blackburn
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