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Flew Quotes
Lines about motion, travel, and taking off.
This set of flew quotes captures movement in different forms, from a rushed flight taken straight out of character on a film set to a fascination with the fragile passenger airships of decades past. It pairs well with our Experience collection.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
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- Nov 07, 2020
My show 'The Big House' was picked up; they flew me to New York. I'm about to step on stage to announce Kevin Hart's 'The Big House.' And a hand grabs my shoulder, 'Kevin no, they just decided to cancel it.' It's a serious smack-in-the-face business, and either you can take it, or you can't.
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To research my book 'Me the People' - in which I have rewritten the entire Constitution of the United States - I flew to Greece, the birthplace of democracy. I bused to Philly, the home of independence. I even, if you can believe it, read the Constitution of the United States.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
One of the reasons I wrote 'Airborn' was that I'd fallen in love with the great passenger airships which flew in the '20s and '30s. Their time was short-lived. They were frail, they tended to crash; and they could never be as fast, safe and efficient as the airplanes that replaced them.
- Family
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- Nov 07, 2020
My father is Nigerian; my mother is from Texas and African-American. My father was the first in his family to go to university. He flew from Nigeria to Los Angeles in the '70s to go to UCLA, where he met my mother. They broke up before I was born, and he returned to Nigeria.
- Mouth
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- Nov 07, 2020
The 'Tickle Monster' story literally flew out of my mouth.
- Fly
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- Nov 07, 2020
There was only one catch and that was Catch-22. Orr would be crazy to fly more missions and sane if he didn't, but if he was sane he had to fly them. If he flew them he was crazy and didn't have to; but if he didn't want to he was sane and had to.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I flew into New York for the Raising Arizona audition, and we just started joking around.
- Father
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was in a play directed by my father, and I was doing a fight scene, and the choreography went haywire, and I flew backward over a chair and ripped my thumb all the way to my wrist and had to have surgery to sew up all the tendons in there.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I got home from hospital, and I was in a wheelchair in a plaster body cast, an aeroplane flew over. And I thought to myself, 'Well, if I can't walk, then I might as well fly.' And I was lifted into the aeroplane for the first time. And when I took the controls of the aeroplane, I knew this was something I could do. I thought, 'I can fly.'
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
In Tanzania, the chimps are isolated in a very tiny patch of forest. I flew over it 13 years ago and realized that, basically, all the trees had gone, that people all around the park are struggling to survive. It became very clear that there was no way to protect the chimps while the people were in this dire circumstance.
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- Nov 07, 2020
The starting point of all great jazz has got to be format, a language that you can work within that, in some ways, is much tighter than the blues or even gospel. It's all working towards the same destination - the difference being that Miles Davis flew there, and I'm still taking the subway.
- Important
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- Nov 07, 2020
Words played an important part in my growing up. Not only the written word... but words that flew through the air: jokes, riddles, puns.
- High
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- Nov 07, 2020
I finished my junior year of high school and flew out to Los Angeles. I didn't know the difference between a manager and an agent. But I got here and just started hustling and meeting anyone I could.
- Cup
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- Nov 07, 2020
When we won the 2009 World Cup in Australia, we flew economy, shared hotel rooms and had a 10:45 P.M. curfew.
- Magic
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- Nov 07, 2020
I can write, He floated up to the ceiling, and a baby rabbit came out of his pocket, grew wings, and flew away. And you will believe that it really happened. That's magic, isn't it?
- Friend
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- Nov 07, 2020
Kanye has been a good friend for ten years. He flew back from London to Los Angeles for 24 hours just to go to my wedding.
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- Nov 07, 2020