Steve Jurvetson (Stephen T. Jurvetson) Quotes

Putting seven people in orbit should not cost more than flying a commercial jet around earth.

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• Where having been an actor was extremely helpful to me was in casting. That's where I think a director who has acted can really shine, and casting is the most important thing you do.

  

  Taylor Sheridan
  • Important
  • Me
  • Shine

• But, unfortunately, sometimes that affirmation creates a sense that you deserve special treatment and recognition in areas where you're not so talented.

  

  Taylor Hackford
  • You
  • Deserve
  • Affirmation

• I'm not a villain, I've never hurt anyone. I'm just a tawdry character who explodes now and again.

  

  Oliver Reed
  • Character
  • Hurt
  • Villain

• It is rather for us here dedicated to the great task remaining before us, that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Great
  • Measure
  • Task

• I have loved movies as the number one thing in my life so long that I can't ever remember a time when I didn't.

  

  Quentin Tarantino
  • Life
  • Time
  • Long

• Inconvenience yourself: ditch the remote, the garage door opener, the leaf-blower; buy a bike, broom, rake, and snow shovel.

  

  Dan Buettner
  • Door
  • Yourself
  • Snow

• My passion for strengthening the community and making peoples' lives better is stronger now than when I first got into politics.

  

  Ted Deutch
  • Community
  • Passion
  • Politics

• My father was a research doctor at the National Institutes of Health in the early 1980s, and you couldn't work in the field and not know about D. Carleton Gajdusek, who my father often mentioned.

  

  Hanya Yanagihara
  • Work
  • Father
  • Health

• In my opinion, the Hezbollah has going - they are going to discover sooner or later than in their top priority should preserve Lebanon.

  

  Najib Mikati
  • Opinion
  • Priority
  • Discover

• I do like beauty, but an older woman can be beautiful and a clever woman is beautiful because that beauty shines through.

  

  Patrick Demarchelier
  • Beautiful
  • Woman
  • Beauty

• If conquest constitutes a natural right on the part of the few, the many have only to gather sufficient strength in order to acquire the natural right of reconquering what has been taken from them.

  

  Karl Marx
  • Taken

• My mother was a phoenix who always expected to rise from the ashes of her latest disaster. She loved being Judy Garland.

  

  Lorna Luft
  • She
  • Mother
  • Phoenix

• When I look at a woman through my camera, I see her with complete admiration and appreciation of her beauty, strength, and power - and that's how I do my best to represent her.

  

  Amanda de Cadenet
  • Power
  • Appreciation

• Stewardship of our air and water is a responsibility that should be free of the bias of politics. What's more, environmental regulators should abide by the law.

  

  Luther Strange
  • Free
  • Law
  • Responsibility

• It shouldn't be the asylum seekers wondering which country they want go to. It should be Europe telling them where to be, be it Lithuania, Sweden, or wherever.

  

  Mark Rutte
  • Country

• There is nothing more, I guess, cannibalistic than the metal or the hard rock scene, it seems.

  

  Andy Biersack Black Veil Brides
  • Rock

• Don't even get me started. I'm not against all vegetarians. But if you're a vegetarian for ethical reasons, you may be causing more harm.

  

  David Chang
  • May

• We did not go to war in Afghanistan or in Iraq to, quote, 'impose democracy.' We went to war in both places because we saw those regimes as a threat to the United States.

  

  Paul Wolfowitz
  • War
  • Democracy

• A lucky guess is never merely luck. There is always some talent in it.

  

  Jane Austen
  • Talent
  • Luck
  • Guess

• Remove severe restraint and what will become of virtue?

  

  Seneca the Younger
  • Remove
  • Severe

• The best thing I've learned is, if you're going out, never go out alone - you leave yourself vulnerable. If you've got someone else there you trust, they can say, be wary of that person. I probably used to be too trusting of people.

  

  Daniel Radcliffe
  • People
  • Alone
  • Trust

• Beauty is momentary in the mind - The fitful tracing of a portal; But in the flesh it is immortal. The body dies; the body's beauty lives. So evenings die, in their green going, A wave, interminably flowing. So gardens die, their meek breath scenting The cowl of winter, done repenting. So maidens die, to the auroral Celebration of a maiden's choral.

  

  Wallace Stevens
  • Mind
  • Done
  • Die

• If America had a motto, it would be pull yourself up by the bootstraps, work harder than the next guy, have a goal and achieve it.

  

  John Lee Hancock
  • Up
  • Work
  • America

• Putting seven people in orbit should not cost more than flying a commercial jet around earth.

  

  Steve Jurvetson
  • People
  • Earth
  • Flying