Steve Jurvetson (Stephen T. Jurvetson) Quotes

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

Steve Jurvetson

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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 think people should know more of Africa in terms of its joie de vivre, its feeling for life. In spite of the images that one knows about Africa - the economic poverty, the corruption - there's a joy to living and a happiness in community, living together, in community life, which may be missing here in America.

  

  Youssou N'Dour
  • People
  • Life
  • May

• Life is God's art.

  

  Larry Norman
  • Life
  • God
  • Art

• 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

• I wanted this to have as wide an audience as possible. I didn't want to get an X rating, because in my opinion once that happens you X-out everyone else.

  

  Dana Plato
  • Want
  • Opinion
  • Audience

• 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

• A lot of people are very sacred with their ideas, and there is something to protecting yourself in that way, but there's also something to idea sharing, or being the person who makes the mistake in public so people can study that.

  

  Kanye West
  • People
  • Ideas
  • Study

• There's like a special group of people that come from different parts of the planet to study with me. It's nice. I just gave a workshop in Boston at the New England Conservatory, which was really nice.

  

  Charlie Haden
  • People
  • Different
  • Nice

• I haven't lost my blues roots.

  

  Christine McVie Fleetwood Mac
  • Lost

• It's expected of novels that they should explain the world and create the illusion that things are ultimately logical and coherent. But that's not what I see around me. Often, events remain mysterious and unresolved, and our emotions reach no catharsis.

  

  Damon Galgut
  • World
  • Emotions
  • Mysterious

• I always looked up to great actors and great films. A lot of my family would be like, 'Come on, you should get into these plays that are going on.' I'm like, 'Nah, nah, music's my thing.' I just fell into it. I moved to Atlanta, got with an agency out there, started doing little voiceover commercials, and it started getting kind of fun.

  

  Jacob Latimore
  • Up
  • Great
  • Music

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

  

  Steve Jurvetson
  • People
  • Earth
  • Flying