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.
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When people who love the ocean come together, they can achieve extraordinary things.
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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.
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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.
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I do not accept the right of big powers to change governments as and when it affects their interests.
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Instead of passing on choppy waters to the next generation, we should endeavor to leave them a calmer sea.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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If you want to be happy, make others happy!
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One and one is two, and two and two is four, and five will get you ten if you know how to work it.
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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.
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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.
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I never wanted to be the next Bruce Lee. I just wanted to be the first Jackie Chan.
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A Microsoft-Yahoo merger is a deal only an investment banker could love.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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I really do not see much use in exalting the humble and meek; they do not remain humble and meek long when they are exalted.
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The relationship between East and West needs to be and can be fixed via pop culture.
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Sometimes, political campaigns make decent people act and talk like perfect buffoons.
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Everyone knew it was impossible, until a fool who didn't know came along and did it.
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The fans make the person a star.
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You have to be willing to see that sometimes the governments of these poor countries don't come through. You have to think about that as a constraint. How do you help them be better? How do you come up with things that actually work, even in those tough situations.
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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.
