John Archibald Wheeler Quotes
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Within NASA, the shuttle is perhaps the least-groundbreaking project. Recall that Apollo was about creating brand-new technologies that did something unprecedented - putting men on the moon. The shuttle is, by comparison, a relic designed to make going into orbit routine.
Nathan Myhrvold -
I am a control freak. I will admit that freely.
J. Michael Straczynski -
I got into science because I thought that, with inspiration and hard work, I could figure out how life works.
Randy Schekman -
To have success in your professional life is not so hard. To succeed as a man is more difficult.
Yann Arthus-Bertrand -
I do not like violence.
Abdurrahman Wahid -
Law enforcement officers are never 'off duty.' They are dedicated public servants who are sworn to protect public safety at any time and place that the peace is threatened. They need all the help that they can get.
Barbara Boxer
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When I plan to settle down, I will announce it to the world. Marriage is an occasion to celebrate. I'll celebrate it when it happens, letting everyone know about it.
Rani Mukerji -
I know that there's people that have expectations of me, and I'm a people pleaser, so I want them to be happy.
Yvette Nicole Brown -
Any econometrician who wants to see practical application of his science will be highly concerned with applications to economic planning at the national level.
Ragnar Frisch -
Government is the ultimate monopoly. And monopolies, as any economist will tell you, often breed complacency and a lack of innovation.
Gavin Newsom -
A man who leaves home to mend himself and others is a philosopher; but he who goes from country to country, guided by the blind impulse of curiosity, is a vagabond.
Oliver Goldsmith -
Gold and silver from the dead turn often into lead.
R. Buckminster Fuller
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What I have done in my nine year career was just a glimpse of what I can do.
Randy Moss -
I love to watch old movies when I get time off.
Yuan Yuan Tan -
Sacred cows make the tastiest hamburger.
Abbie Hoffman -
I love 'First Wives Club' and 'Death Becomes Her' and movies about women like that.
Tavi Gevinson -
Minds that are ill at ease are agitated by both hope and fear.
Ovid -
Remember the diner in 'Happy Days?' I do want to do a show like that. But an updated version.
Flavor Flav
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Don't forget to celebrate. When I was first coming up, everything was so serious - we were always rushing to get to the next thing - that we didn't take the time to say, 'Man, look what we did just now.'
Maren Morris -
I have always been an active part of my community.
Salma Hayek -
Compounding is the 8th wonder of the world.
Albert Einstein -
Mayors of New York have been elected not because of their party label, but because of their philosophy and their approach overall, and that has been since time immemorial in New York, that people are not party-oriented in New York.
Joe Lhota -
Time is nature's way of keeping everything from happening at once.
John Archibald Wheeler