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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We all love people who give credit to others for their success. Companies would probably do better with CEOs who didn't blow their own horn and ask for ridiculous salaries and new yachts every year.
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What do I care about Jupiter? Justice is a human issue, and I do not need a god to teach it to me.
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If you're trained in metaphysics, you don't see the world as distinct from yourself. You are one with the world.
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'There aren't many laughs in that and I remember doing a look and everybody laughed and I just thought, wow, that's incredible how you can do that. So I did another look and they laughed again and then I remember thinking, hold on, this isn't right for this piece, you've got to stop it.'
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Usually when you interview somebody for a number of hours, they'll say something that is self-aggrandizing or is a manipulation of the facts.
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Gentlemen, I give you the Whittle engine.
