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• Take me to the pilot of your soul.

  Elton John

  Expression, Soul, Take Me

  Song: Take Me To The Pilot Elton John Bernie Taupin

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• You know, being a test pilot isn't always the healthiest business in the world.

  Alan Shepard

  World, Tests, Knows

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• Then there was the challenge to keep doing better and better, to fly the best test flight that anybody had ever flown. That led to my being recognized as one of the more experienced test pilots, and that led to the astronaut business.

  Alan Shepard

  Challenges, Tests, Flight

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• Whether you are an astronomer or a life scientist, geophysicist, or a pilot, you've got to be there because you believe you are good in your field, and you can contribute, not because you are going to get a lot of fame or whatever when you get back.

  Alan Shepard

  Believe, Fields, Fame

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• I was in the pilot for Spinal Tap before it was a movie.

  Nina Blackwood

  Spinal Tap

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• To be a bodyguard is to be a kamikaze pilot. Dedicated.

  Mr. T

  Dedicated, Bodyguard

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• Most helmsmen would’ve been satisfied with a pilot’s wheel or a tiller. Leo had also installed a keyboard, monitor, aviation controls from a Learjet, a dubstep soundboard, and motion-control sensors from a Nintendo Wii. He could turn the ship by pulling on the throttle, fire weapons by sampling an album, or raise sails by shaking his Wii controllers really fast. Even by demigod standards, Leo was seriously ADHD.

  Rick Riordan

  Fire, Wii, Nintendo

  "The Mark of Athena". Book by Rick Riordan, October 2, 2012.

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• This is stolen? We're in a stolen jet?" "Not stolen," said Donegan Bane from the co-pilot's seat. "Almost stolen," Grascious corrected. "Semi-stolen," said Donegan. "Quasi stolen," said Grascious. Aurora's frown did not turn upside down. "So is it stolen or not?" Donegan and Grascious hesitated. "Yes,"they both said toghether.

  Derek Landy

  Aurora, Upside Down, Stolen

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• Twilight and evening bell, And after that the dark! And may there be no sadness of farewell, When I embark; For though from out our bourne of Time and Place The flood may bear me far, I hope to see my Pilot face to face When I have crossed the bar.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Time, Twilight, Farewell

  'Crossing the Bar' (1889)

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• He won't fly on the Balinese airline, Garuda, because he won't fly on any airline where the pilots believe in reincarnation.

  Spalding Gray

  Travel, Believe, Reincarnation

  Spalding Gray (1992). “Monster in a Box”, Vintage

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• I spent my entire career trying to protect the Constitution, the civil rights and the civil liberties of American citizens and people who are here lawfully. I, as chair of this commission, would not be a party to any system that I felt was an unpardonable intrusion into the private lives of people. If I felt that what we are recommending would be such an intrusion I can assure you that recommendation would never have seen the light of day, not even as a pilot program.

  Barbara Jordan

  Party, Rights, Light

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• The pilots I worked with in the aerospace industry were willing to put on almost anything to keep them safe in case of a crash, but regular people in cars don't want to be uncomfortable even for a minute.

  Nils Bohlin

  Science, Aerospace, People

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• May there not be methods of using explosive energy incomparably more intense than anything heretofore discovered? Might not a bomb no bigger than an orange be found to possess a secret power to destroy a whole block of buildings-nay, to concentrate the force of a thousand tons of cordite and blast a township at a stroke? Could not explosives even of the existing type be guided automatically in flying machines by wireless or other rays, without a human pilot, in ceaseless procession upon a hostile city, arsenal, camp or dockyard?

  Winston Churchill

  Block, War, Cities

  Winston Churchill (2012). “Churchill: The Power of Words”, p.220, Da Capo Press

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• Fighter pilots have ice in their veins. They don't have emotions. They think, anticipate. They know that fear and other concerns cloud your mind from what's going on and what you should be involved in.

  Buzz Aldrin

  Thinking, Clouds, Ice

  "Buzz Aldrin, Moonwalker, Says Us Must Aim For Mars". Interview with James M. Clash, www.livemint.com. May 24 2013.

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• The aeroplane is the nearest thing to animate life that man has created. In the air a machine ceases indeed to be a mere piece of mechanism; it becomes animate and is capable not only of primary guidance and control, but actually of expressing a pilot's temperament.

  Ross Macpherson Smith

  Men, Air, Machines

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• So just as I want pilots on the planes that I fly, when it comes to monetary policy, I want to think that there is someone with sound judgement at the controls.

  Martin Feldstein

  Thinking, Judgement, Sound

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• I've not been a prolific poet, and it always seemed to me to be a bad idea to feel that you had to produce in order to get... credits. Production of a collection of poems every three years or every five years, or whatever, looks good, on paper. But it might not be good; it might be writing on a kind of automatic pilot.

  James Fenton

  Writing, Order, Years

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• I have one brother, John, an airline pilot, who is seven years younger. He's adopted, though we're still blood related - he's my cousin. My parents couldn't have any more children after me, so when Dad's brother died, they adopted John, then just a baby.

  Gary Numan

  Baby, Cousin, Brother

  "Gary Numan: My family values" by Angela Wintle, www.theguardian.com. May 4, 2012.

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• My husband was a pilot. He flew Elvis when Elvis first started making appearances around the country.

  Minnie Pearl

  Country, Husband, Redneck

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• Honest pioneer work in the field of science has always been, and will continue to be, life's pilot. On all sides, life is surrounded by hostility. This puts us under an obligation.

  Wilhelm Reich

  Two Sides, Pioneers, Fields

  Wilhelm Reich (1973). “The Discovery of the Orgone”

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• Well, it's difficult to fall in love with a character when you just read the pilot. You don't really know who the character is.

  Christina Ricci

  Falling In Love, Character, Difficult

  "Christina Ricci Interview PAN AM; Says Robert Pattinson Is “Absolutely Lovely” in BEL AMI". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. August 26, 2011.

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• On a standard space shuttle crew, two of the astronauts have a test pilot background - the commander and the pilot.

  Sally Ride

  Two, Space, Tests

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• The successful golfers - they're like astronauts or pilots. They have that demeanor that they can focus and stay within that one moment and nothing distracts them. That's not me.

  Ray Romano

  Successful, Focus, Moments

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• I love The Golden Girls. I've watched recently, and it's sort of insane there's a chef that they're always referring to as "fancy" - the pilot's kind of a mess.

  June Diane Raphael

  Girl, Insane, Fancy

  "Grace And Frankie's June Diane Raphael on the joy of calling Donald Trump a 'little bitch'". Interview with Alex McLevy, tv.avclub.com. March 22, 2017.

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• Pilots are a rare kind of human. They leave the ordinary surface of the word, to purify their soul in the sky, and they come down to earth, only after receiving the communion of the infinite.

  Jose Maria Velasco Ibarra

  Sky, Flying, Soul

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