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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The threat to Russia isn't liberal Europe or America. It is nonliberal Islam and nonliberal China. Russia has to change. It can't be otherwise. It will take time. You have to be patient.
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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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There are millions of people living Thoreau's life of quiet desperation, and they do not have the language to escape from that desperation.
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I delivered Chinese food on Long island, which is pretty depressing. I lived with my parents and did that for six months. I got a job a few towns over from mine so I wouldn't have to see people from my high school.
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I guess I just process death differently than some folks. Realizing you're not going to see that person again is always the most difficult part about it. But that feeling settles, and then you are glad you had that person in your life, and then the happiness and the sadness get all swirled up inside you.
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The people who run record companies now wouldn't know a song if it flew up their nose and died. They haven't a clue, and they don't care. You tell them that, and they go, Yeah? So, your point is?
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If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one.
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If you don't have a consensus that it's nonsense, you don't have a breakthrough.
