"I was a fighter pilot, flying Hurricanes all round the Mediterranean. I flew in the Western Desert of Libya, in Greece, in Syria, in Iraq and in Egypt."

Flying, Greece, Iraq

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"I was a fighter pilot, flying Hurricanes all round the Mediterranean. I flew in the Western Desert of Libya, in Greece, in Syria, in Iraq and in Egypt."

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"I ate a bug once. It was flying around me. I was trying to get it away. It went right in my mouth. It was so gross!"

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Mark Hamill, American Actor

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"Writings scatter to the winds blank checks in an insane charge. And were they not such flying leaves, there would be no purloined letters."

Jacques Lacan, French Psychologist

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Ted Lindsay, Canadian Athlete

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"It's difficult to do that internally, because you're flying five, six hours."

Vince McMahon, American Entertainer

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"Many psychoanalysts refused to let me speak at their meetings. They were exceptionally vigorous because I had previously been an analyst and they were very angry at my flying the coop."

Albert Ellis, American Psychologist

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"I was singing in a mall, and I picked a girl to come up onstage with me. As I was grabbing her hand, I fell off the stage. It felt like I was in the air forever, flying like Superman."

Aaron Carter, American Musician

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"Everything has changed. The flying changed. The airports have changed."

Eydie Gorme, American Musician

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"When you launch in a rocket, you're not really flying that rocket. You're just sort of hanging on."

Michael P. Anderson, American Astronaut

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"And the two planes that were taking the band and crew that we had taken out to San Diego were flying out after the show. And so I was never supposed to be on that plane."

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"A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men."

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