Wernher von Braun Quotes
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One of the prices that we pay for integration was the disintegration of the black community.
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I find my earliest memories covering the anachronistic features of a previous incarnation. Clear recollections came to me of a distant life, a yogi amidst the Himalayan snows. These glimpses of the past, by some dimensionless link, also afforded me a glimpse of the future.
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Luckily I don't have to buy shoes anymore, because I design them! I'm off tour, so I can dive in and create the shoes that I want for my line. But okay, I did buy a pair of vintage combat boots because they were so beaten up - I had to have them.
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I understood early on that the freedom of America is what made our way of life possible and that we should help other people live in freedom, too.
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I love singing Christmas carols. I know every harmony to every music-hall Christmas song.
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A man is as alive as he can communicate.
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When I hear people debate the ROI of social media? It makes me remember why so many business fail. Most businesses are not playing the marathon. They're playing the sprint. They're not worried about lifetime value and retention. They're worried about short-term goals.
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You were born as the one you are.
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I like spending time with my husband.
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The fact of being an underdog changes people in ways that we often fail to appreciate. It opens doors and creates opportunities and enlightens and permits things that might otherwise have seemed unthinkable.
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When I came up to New York to do a play, I passed by Julliard, and I was like, 'Oh I heard of this place.' I applied, and ended up getting in.
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Money is worth nothing if it can't buy you the opportunity to love more.
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Pretty much anybody who's ever worked can relate to our show.
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I started doing improv my sophomore year.
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Government subsidies can be critically analyzed according to a simple principle: You are smarter than the government, so when the government pays you to do something you wouldn't do on your own, it is almost always paying you to do something stupid.
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'Women's intuition' wasn't intuition at all, it was heightened observation, unconscious registration of subtle clues.
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We need not only open trading systems, but systems that work for people around the world - taking into account not only the bottom line, but the well-being of working men and women, the protection of children against sweatshop labor, and the protection of the environment.
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You always kind of feel like you're rolling the dice as an actor.
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My father, who was a cabinetmaker, told me, 'Wood has a grain and if you go into the grain, you have beauty. If you go against it, you have splinters - it breaks.' And I took that as my view of life. You have to follow the grain - to be sensitive to the direction of life.
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Work first and then rest. Work first, and then gaze, but do not use golden ploughshares, nor bind ledgers in enamel.
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Without Art, we should have no notion of the sacred; without Science, we should always worship false gods.
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There were statistically more women than men on the planet. Why should every major religion have been founded by men and propagated by men?
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If you wish at once to do nothing and to be respectable now-a-days, the best pretext is to be at work on some profound study.
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The rocket worked perfectly, except for landing on the wrong planet.
