Wernher von Braun Quotes
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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 love singing Christmas carols. I know every harmony to every music-hall Christmas song.
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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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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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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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I'm always crunching numbers, so my calculator watch is a must.
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Failure has been the great theme of my life, I think.
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I just feel like with independent movies... they're really free to do whatever they want. They're not afraid to make a statement about anything, and there's not a huge studio behind them making sure that everything is wholesome and politically correct and all that.
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We have an extensive system of highways, ports, locks and dams, and airports.
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Medical science in particular will get exponentially better, especially once computers will be powerful enough to digitally simulate entire human brains, meaning medical experiments that would normally take years can be digitally run taking only hours.
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Of course, we are all egoists. Egoism is so much a part of our humanity.
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The music field was the first to break down racial barriers, because in order to play together, you have to love the people you are playing with, and if you have any racial inhibitions, you wouldn't be able to do that.
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In a revolution one wins or dies, if it is a real one.
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The rocket worked perfectly, except for landing on the wrong planet.
