Yves Rossy quotes
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“I don't have feathers, but I feel like a bird sometimes.”
-- Yves RossySource : "'Jetman' lives the dream of flying". www.cnn.com. December 4, 2011.
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“I was always pretty good at designing things.”
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“I'm not playing with death, I'm playing with life.”
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“When youre in a fighter jet and theres a dark layer of clouds with just one blue hole with the sun going through it, you shoot for that hole. You go vertical into the light, and suddenly, instead of gray and dark, its light and blue. You are totally connected with the elements. You are in another world.”
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“I was a pilot and flying hang gliders, paragliders, aerobatics airplanes, and then I discovered skydiving. Free fall. Free. With nothing around you, just a parachute on your back. And you go down. But you don't feel like you're going down. Total freedom.”
-- Yves RossySource : "I Can Fly" by Nate Hopper, www.esquire.com. September 13, 2013.
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“Flying is absolute freedom. I know the feeling of flying from various aircraft. But there was always something surrounding me that I had to control. As Fusion Man, it's like I am naked, I only have the wings that carry me. It's like a dream.”
-- Yves RossySource : Source: www.spiegel.de
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“I showed it is possible to fly a little bit like a bird.”
-- Yves RossySource : "Jetman tries again with Channel bid". www.theguardian.com. September 26, 2008.
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“I don't understand technology, and I'm very scared of it.”
Source : "The Accidental Success of Adam Driver". Interview with Alex Morris, www.rollingstone.com. January 20, 2014.
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“It is a matter of shame that in the morning the birds should be awake earlier than you.”
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Source : Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Interview, library.cshl.edu. June 17, 2005.
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“Sometimes what we want isn't what's best for us - Della”
Source : Abbi Glines (2013). “Simple Perfection: A Novel”, p.43, Simon and Schuster
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