John Young Quotes
If you are going to make progress in aviation and aerospace, you've got to take some risks, and be willing to accept it. There were a lot of things going up and coming down that we didn't know, but we learned when we flew.John Young
Quotes to Explore
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When people who love the ocean come together, they can achieve extraordinary things.
Frances Beinecke -
General Giap was one of the most brilliant military strategists of our era, who in Dien Bien Phu was able to place missile launchers in remote, mountainous jungles, something the yankee and European military officers considered impossible.
Fidel Castro -
I found out that there was this project called the 'Great Green Wall' where they wanted to plant trees across the Sahara desert, and the idea was born that I wanted to create a support structure for that initiative.
Magnus Larsson -
I do not accept the right of big powers to change governments as and when it affects their interests.
Tariq Ali -
Instead of passing on choppy waters to the next generation, we should endeavor to leave them a calmer sea.
Najib Razak -
Unfortunately, the public might not know that we get a script usually two days before shooting. So sometimes I'm shooting an episode and don't even know how it's going to end because I haven't read that yet.
Fisher Stevens
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Even though it seems like there are a lot of parts, there is really tons of downtime in the acting world.
Taryn Manning Boomkat -
The person who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare. The sure-thing boat never gets far from shore.
Dale Carnegie -
If you want to be happy, make others happy!
Dada Vaswani -
One and one is two, and two and two is four, and five will get you ten if you know how to work it.
Mae West -
For though we often need to be restored to the small, concrete, limited, and certain, we as often need to be reminded of the large, vague, unlimited, unknown.
A. R. Ammons -
For more than four decades, the Libyan people have been ruled by a tyrant - Moammar Gaddafi. He has denied his people freedom, exploited their wealth, murdered opponents at home and abroad, and terrorized innocent people around the world - including Americans who were killed by Libyan agents.
Barack Obama
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I never wanted to be the next Bruce Lee. I just wanted to be the first Jackie Chan.
Jackie Chan -
A Microsoft-Yahoo merger is a deal only an investment banker could love.
Kara Swisher -
There's so much else to do in the world. To just be interested in doing films would limit my life.
Natalie Portman -
You do not chop off a section of your imaginative substance and make a book specifically for children, for - if you are honest - you have no idea where childhood ends and maturity begins. It is all endless and all one.
P. L. Travers -
China's history is marked by thousands of years of world-changing innovations: from the compass and gunpowder to acupuncture and the printing press. No one should be surprised that China has re-emerged as an economic superpower.
Gary Locke -
I don't see myself in terms of artifice. I see myself as a real person who chooses to live my life in an open way - artistically.
Lady Gaga
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Speaking much also is a sign of vanity; for he that is lavish in words is a niggard in deeds.
Walter Raleigh -
I've been fortunate to work with some amazing Asian filmmakers in independent film.
Ken Jeong -
You won't win if you don't begin.
Robert H. Schuller -
England has always been disinclined to accept human nature.
E. M. Forster -
Every time we give a musician the advice to give away the music and sell the T-shirt, we're saying, 'Don't make your living in this more elevated way. Instead, reverse this social progress, and choose a more physical way to make a living.' We're sending them to peasanthood, very much like the Maoists have.
Jaron Lanier -
If you are going to make progress in aviation and aerospace, you've got to take some risks, and be willing to accept it. There were a lot of things going up and coming down that we didn't know, but we learned when we flew.
John Young