Ellen Stofan Quotes

My key aim is to get man on the surface of Mars by the mid-2030s.

Ellen Stofan

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• Her angel's face, As the great eye of heaven shined bright, And made a sunshine in the shady place.

  

  Edmund Spenser
  • Great
  • Heaven
  • Eye

• The more we learn about life, the less plausible is any evolutionary theory that relies on blind, undirected, piece-by-piece change.

  

  Nancy Pearcey
  • Life
  • Change
  • Blind

• I'm glad that my parents missed one thing that was really unbelievable. They saw me hit this great success. It was a blast and we had a lot of laughs. And it was just an amazing time. They passed away. And then after I got, you know, famous, all these haters came out of nowhere.

  

  Dane Cook
  • Time
  • Great
  • Success

• Each person is living for himself; his own happiness is all he can ever personally feel.

  

  Harry Browne
  • Happiness
  • Feel
  • Living

• There's a policy now of opening the doors to the outside world.

  

  Hanoi Hannah
  • World
  • Doors
  • Opening

• I was completely surrounded by religion from a young time. I was taught by my father. I engaged in discussions with him and many of these scholars who visited and came around the dining table, the lunch table, and attended many lectures with my dad. And so I learned the apprentice way.

  

  Feisal Abdul Rauf
  • Time
  • Father
  • Dad

• No organization should be allowed near disaster unless they are willing to cooperate with some level of established leadership.

  

  Irwin Redlener
  • Leadership
  • Organization

• I was very much in love with my mother. She was a very warm and a very cold woman. When she was warm, I tried to come close to her. But she could be very cold and rejecting.

  

  Ingmar Bergman
  • Love
  • She
  • Mother

• We differ on several issues. And this may include settlement, the release of prisoners, the wall closing institutions in Jerusalem.

  

  Mahmoud Abbas
  • May
  • Wall
  • Jerusalem

• The more you stay with and/or complain about a toxic person, the more you're merely delaying doing the important inner work you need to do - to heal your wounds, expand your limiting beliefs, and show yourself far more love and respect.

  

  Karen Salmansohn
  • Work
  • Important
  • Love

• Going to a restaurant is one of my keenest pleasures. Meeting someplace with old and new friends, ordering wine, eating food, surrounded by strangers, I think is the core of what it means to live a civilised life.

  

  Adam Gopnik
  • Life
  • Live
  • Friends

• I love various sports, including basketball, tennis and billiards.

  

  Yani Tseng
  • Sports
  • Basketball
  • Tennis

• Humans make errors. We make errors of fact and errors of judgment. We have blind spots in our field of vision and gaps in our stream of attention. Sometimes we can't even answer the simplest questions.

  

  Gary Wolf
  • Attention
  • Vision
  • Questions

• Molecular biology has routinely taken problematic things under its wing without altering core ideas.

  

  Ian Hacking
  • Taken
  • Ideas
  • Things

• I can say I'm not doing 'X-Men.' I love the franchise, and I love the people who make them on and off screen.

  

  Taron Egerton
  • People
  • Men
  • Doing

• At a very young age, I could look at people and tell that everyone was, in a sense, worthless in their own mind. And you couldn't trust anyone. No one was good.

  

  Vince Staples
  • People
  • Good
  • Mind

• We have been born into this land, charged with the historic mission of regenerating the nation.

  

  Park Chung-hee

• When I shoot actors, I have that dilemma. I want the actor to be good, and sometimes I have to push them to a place that isn't pleasant. I always think: 'Is it worth doing for the sake of the movie?' But I have to remember the bigger picture.

  

  Michel Gondry
  • Remember
  • Sometimes
  • Actors

• If you're writing songs by yourself, who's going to tell you if it's good or not? But if you're writing songs with somebody else, you get that immediate feedback.

  

  Glenn Frey The Eagles
  • Good
  • Writing
  • Song

• I just want to make different movies. I want them to be things that I care about and not to repeat myself.

  

  Azazel Jacobs
  • Care
  • Movies
  • Repeat

• Politics is a choice of enemas. You're gonna get it up the ass, no matter what you do.

  

  George V. Higgins
  • Politics
  • Choice
  • Enemas

• As a comedian, I don't know if they're laughing because it's funny or if they're laughing at me because I'm not funny. And I'm thinking, 'Who cares? They're laughing.' If you go on stage, and they're laughing at you full-on for 60 minutes? You know, whatever puts them in the seats.

  

  Larry the Cable Guy
  • Thinking
  • Funny
  • Me

• My key aim is to get man on the surface of Mars by the mid-2030s.

  

  Ellen Stofan