Frank Whittle Quotes
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We fear our passage will be attended with difficulties by reason of the great number of passingers which are one hundred and eighty and upwards in number.
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We live in a fast-paced culture where we're asked to make snap decisions all day long, so I suppose cash-point donations feed into the immediacy of our life experience. So it's a great idea. But I think it needs careful handling.
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There's book smart, there is street smart, there's relationship smart, there's too many different kinds of smarts to know all of them. Everybody doesn't know every kind of smart. There's money smart, there's movie smart, there's computer smart. There's just too many different kinds of smarts for people to know all the smarts.
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Hell, I ain't paid to make good lines sound good. I'm paid to make bad lines sound good.
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Raining on parades requires no skill or effort on the part of a politician.
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If you look at the history of large financial institutions, most of them have succeeded because of a deep presence in their home market.
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Don't ever forget two things I'm going to tell you. One, don't believe everything that's written about you. Two, don't pick up too many checks.
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My childhood and adolescence were filled with visiting scientists from both India and abroad, many of whom would stay with us. A life of science struck me as being both interesting and particularly international in its character.
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The juices never stop flowing. I still write songs.
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I realize my arms aren't as toned as Halle Berry's but I don't want them to be.
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For a long time, society put obstacles in the way of women who wanted to enter the sciences.
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Economic, social, and other kinds of regional cooperation are not possible so long as there is apartheid. Therefore, it seems the duty of all mankind to destroy it.
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The enormous lake stretched flat and smooth and white all the way to the edge of the gray sky. Wagon tracks went away across it, so far that you could not see where they went; they ended in nothing at all.
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There have been a lot of moments in my career when things haven't gone to plan.
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We agree that man was not created to survive in space.
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Skepticism is a virtue in history as well as in philosophy.
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Facts cannot be replaced by opinion.
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God knows, I haven't always been successful.
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I like thinking big. If you're going to be thinking anything, you might as well think big.
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The only thing that endures over time is the 'Law of the Farm.' You must prepare the ground, plant the seed, cultivate, and water if you expect to reap the harvest.
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Flowers seem intended for the solace of ordinary humanity.
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The only really good thing about acting in movies is that there's no heavy lifting.
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He wore his happiness like a mask and the girl had run off across the lawn with the mask and there was no way of going to knock on her door and ask for it back.
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Gentlemen, I give you the Whittle engine.
