Burt Rutan Quotes
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There is a huge reservoir of support for abortion rights from ordinary women. I hear all the time from women who had abortions and say it made possible the good life they went on to have. Social shaming silences too many.
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What honour have we got left, when nobody is listening to us?
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I don't care who you are or what you have gone through - everyone has something they are fighting for.
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An American orchestra doesn't want to play more than it has to. I respectfully disagree with that attitude.
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In graduate school, Aubrey Berg at the Cincinnati Conservatory gave me the chance to perform with the best in the country in Broadway caliber productions.
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The rappers have gone in and created a lot of hit music based upon my influence. And they'll tell you if you ask.
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Europe can't take in huge masses of foreign people in an unlimited, uncontrolled manner.
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Everybody wants to be a star right now, to be heard, to have a voice, so you have to give the confidence for people to have that ability - and give them the wardrobe to become a star.
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We need to get away from labels. That's the way people talk in Washington, D.C. - through labels, through ideological frames, through partisan frames.
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I have now disposed of all my property to my family. There is one thing more I wish I could give them, and that is the Christian religion.
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Fortunately, problems are an everyday part of our life. Consider this: If there were no problems, most of us would be unemployed.
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A right is not what someone gives you; it's what no one can take from you.
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Indian higher education is completely regulated. It's very difficult to start a private university. It's very difficult for a foreign university to come to India. As a result of that, our higher education is simply not keeping pace with India's demands. That is leading to a lot of problems which we need to address.
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Claret is the liquor for boys; port for men; but he who aspires to be a hero must drink brandy.
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My impression of the American people can be summarized by a quotation from Benjamin Franklin, 'Those things that hurt instruct!' I realised that people in this part of the world meet their problems head on. They attempt to get out of them rather than suffer them.
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She walked upon the grass, Still quavering. The winds were like her maids, On timid feet, Fetching her woven scarves, Yet wavering.
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I got an Irish passport the other day. I love it. It's the best thing in my pocket.
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All we can do is live every single day and do our best to be present with the ones that we love and with everybody that we come in contact with … The timing of everything seems too divine sometimes to ignore.
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The Internet should be an open platform where you are free to go where you want and say and do what you want without having to ask anyone's permission.
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What's great about my father is that, because we've been involved in the business from such a young age, he's given us - and we've earned - autonomy, and he's given us the rope to go out and grow the brand.
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So in process of four or five years the emperor called me, as divers times he had done before.
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If someone is making a very expensive purchase decision, they typically have a lot of questions about the fit and about what to wear the item with. In some cases, they'll ask for additional images or want to contact the designer.
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Surely the test of a novel's characters is that you feel a strong interest in them and their affairs-the good to be successful, the bad to suffer failure. Well, in John Ward, you feel no divided interest, no discriminating interest-you want them all to land in hell together, and right away.
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If you don't have a consensus that it's nonsense, you don't have a breakthrough.
