W. Richard Stevens Quotes
It was not a good time for Aerospace Engineers (Boeing was laying off thousands of them) and I found programming more fun anyways.

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We say God and the imagination are one... How high that highest candle lights the dark.
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I think 4 percent growth is a good goal. And I think the fact that we have become used to an economy that sort of putt putts along between 1 and 2 percent is sort of tragic.
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Well, first of all, let me say that I might have made a tactical error in not going to a physician for 20 years. It was one of those phobias that really didn't pay off.
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I have a classic taste with a twist, because classic never goes away.
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The simplest toy, one which even the youngest child can operate, is called a grandparent.
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Look at Jessica Simpson. She's famous for being dumb. I guess it started with Marylyn Monroe, and she actually wasn't that dumb, but that's how she was perceived - and that's what got popular.
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Growing up, I had a very happy childhood, with two parents who are still very much together.
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If I'm gonna write songs about my exes, they can write songs about me. That's how it works.
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Giving frees us from the familiar territory of our own needs by opening our mind to the unexplained worlds occupied by the needs of others.
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In my early 20s, I was a big fan of Theodore Dreiser and might be one of the few people on the planet who have voluntarily read all his novels.
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Most people who have encountered mercury have done so after breaking a mercury thermometer. And many of us who saw the liquid balls of mercury scatter across a floor or countertop considered the element the most beautiful on the periodic table.
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Dave thought he was bigger than Van Halen the band. So there was this catfight going on for 10 years.
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No citizen is a second class citizen in the city of Chicago. If my children are treated one way, every child is treated the same way.
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Lupe Fiasco is kinda cool. I like him a lot.
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I used to get a shiver if I thought about holding balloons, because I was scared of floating away.
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When I had my first child, I started to try and make fresh food for him daily, and I became frustrated with the amount of work - and time - involved in making baby food at home.
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To me, being in your prime means playing your best and feeling your best, too.
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I don't think we should tell them what we're going to do in advance. Let them think. Worry. Wonder. Uncertainty is the most chilling thing of all.
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Listen; there's a hell of a good universe next door: let's go.
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I like a good pair of jeans, but I also like putting on a nice tux. I'd rather go around in a good pair of jeans that you don't wash every day, because they get more and more comfortable.
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I do not believe that we can stop perfecting new ways of dying until we have found new ways of living. Every new life-way ought to prevent a new death-way.
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Basketball wasn't going particularly well, but in my senior year, I did a play and got a wonderful card from a professor that said, 'I don't know what your plans are after school or if acting is a part of it, but you have something special.' Hearing that from someone who I had so much respect for pointed me in that direction.
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Love your kid as much as you possibly can, and do what you need to do for your family because my situation and what I do for my kid may not work for you.
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It was not a good time for Aerospace Engineers (Boeing was laying off thousands of them) and I found programming more fun anyways.