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If (my grandfather) hadn't left, I'd be working over here at the Albatross Company. -- John F. Kennedy
Ah! well a-day! what evil looks / Had I from old and young! / Instead of the cross, the Albatross / About my neck was hung. -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Of all the ships that have been devoted to biological explorations of the sea, none has surpassed the endeavors conducted on board the U. S. Bureau of Fisheries steamer Albatross, during her 39 years of service from 1882 to 1921. -- Paul Bartsch
I filmed 'Albatross' before I got 'Downton.' It's a coming-of-age movie about this girl who leaps into this family's life, like a whirlwind. She's ballsy and brash and wonderful, it was such an amazing character to play. -- Jessica Brown Findlay
Tradition is the albatross around the neck of progress. -- Bill Veeck
The only albatross is the hurt you divine from what people say about your art -- Stephen Stills
View the past as your enemy, and it will be an albatross. View it as your friend, and it will give you wings. -- Alan Cohen
Once you decide that it is the art that is important and not how popular and well received you are, you no longer have an albatross -- Stephen Stills
Be sure you avoid the Ku Klux Klan. Don't get that albatross around your neck. Once you've made that mistake, you inhibit your operations in the political arena. -- Robert Byrd
I might enjoy being an albatross, being able to glide for days and daydream for hundreds of miles along the thermals. And then being able to hang like an affliction round some people's necks. -- Seamus Heaney
It is said that any virtue when taken to an extreme can become a vice. Overscheduling our days would certainly qualify for this. There comes a point where milestones can become millstones and ambitions, albatrosses around our necks. -- Dieter F. Uchtdorf
I certainly never doubted the ability for the guys to get together and make good music, but there was so much legal business with the record company that it ended up being like five albatrosses around our neck. -- John Bush
That girl will rain destruction down on you and your ship. She is an albatross, Captain. Way I remember it, albatross was a ship's good luck, 'til some idiot killed it. (to Inara) Yes, I've read a poem. Try not to faint. -- Joss Whedon
It does the things we're also most concerned about. It tries very hard to stay alive. It's motivated to reproduce. It gets hungry and goes to look for food. It gets frightened. Compared to other things in the universe, we and the albatrosses are almost identical. -- Carl Safina
A great number of soundings, mainly along the continental slope of the New England States were also taken by the vessels of the United States Fish Commission. Important soundings were made by the United States Fish Commission steamer ALBATROSS in the Caribbean, during the winter of 1883-1884. -- Alexander Agassiz
pg. 231-232: They'd given me a minivan. They could have picked any car and they picked a minivan. A minivan. O God of the Vehicular Justice, why dost thou mock me? Minivan, you albatross around my neck! You mark of Cain! You wretched beast high ceilings and few horsepower! -- John Green
I think that America certainly has racism, I think that any industrialized country does. But when you see how many million fans Barack Obama has who are not black, it would lead one to the conclusion that millions of Americans are in fact not burdened by the albatross of racism. -- Henry Rollins
The only albatross is the hurt you divine from what people say about your art. -- Stephen Stills
The verb "Garland" should be created. It would mean to unfairly put a stinking albatross around someone's neck, to make him unemployable. -- Gene Weingarten
Once you decide that it is the art that is important and not how popular and well received you are, you no longer have an albatross. -- Stephen Stills
It's the spring of 2012, that the [Barak] Obama administration would be embracing the argument that the Affordable Care Act was a tax, and that was going to, itself, be a political albatross. -- Donald Verrilli Jr.

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