Burt Rutan Quotes
In 12 or 15 years, there will be routine, affordable space tourism not just in the U.S. but in a lot of countries.
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I believed I was invincible.
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As soon as one project is finished I like to go straight on to something else.
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I've always wanted to play quarterback, and I lucked out to be able to play for my favorite team - America's team. I'm just living the moment. I feel like all of this was supposed to happen. When you work hard, things work your way.
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I'm not running for state Senate because I wanted to become a politician. I'm running because I wanted to serve.
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I'm from New York, so I'm not a big driver.
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Hedge funds are not especially liquid. Many are 'gated' - meaning there are only small windows when you can withdraw your money. They typically have a high minimum investment and often require investors keep their money in the fund for at least one year.
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Children are apt to live up to what you believe of them.
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When people refer to 'Back in the Day,' it was a Wednesday. Just a little fun fact for you.
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There's always the ongoing actor frustration of finding the great role to do next. I don't go to work a lot. I wait as long as I can until the money runs out or a great part comes along.
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I'm at a point where I don't have to wait for the income from the record to survive, so I'm in a comfortable zone, but I'll make rap records as long as I feel I have something to rap about.
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My dad is Scottish, and he read in the newspaper about the plight of the Scottish Freshwater Mussel, which is a real thing - like, a very real, serious conservation issue. And he's a writer, and he was going to do a film about a Glaswegian gangster, and then I stole the idea and turned it into a romantic comedy.
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I went into acting as psychotherapy, and it's still a work in progress.
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I've committed to surfing the rest of my life.
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Competition is like a treadmill. If you stand still, you get swept off. But when you run, you can never really get ahead of the treadmill and cover new terrain - so you never run faster than the speed that is set.
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I think there's a couple of things going on. One is that Trump's relationship with his base is not the traditional relationship of a politician and the people who elected him, and the constituency, which is a relationship of some accountability, right? The idea is that the politicians are working for the people. They're public servants.
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People look up to Jacques Mesrine as if he were a Robin Hood, stealing from the rich, but he never gave anything back to anybody.
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Feminism is sort of like God. Many people profess to believe in it, but no one seems to be able to define it to everyone's satisfaction.
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I'm terrified of walking into a room full of people. Sitting down at a dinner table with 15 strangers brings me out in a sweat.
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When reporters say to me I'm only doing this because it's my job... that's the same abdication of moral responsibility at the thin end of the wedge that in its most extreme and horrific version ends up with others being prepared to stand as a concentration camp guard.
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The actual thought of not really having a home was, for me, very depressing, and it was something that I was dealing with for quite some time.
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The long term versus the short term argument is one used by losers.
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When given the choice, we’d all rather be happy now … even if that guarantees we’ll all be sad later.
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I feel very grateful that I have never had to be or ever chosen to be or accidentally found myself to be in the space of the other woman.
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In 12 or 15 years, there will be routine, affordable space tourism not just in the U.S. but in a lot of countries.
