Wernher von Braun Quotes
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No one wants to hear the truth if it isn't what they want to hear.
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At a young age, I had to give up a lot of things, like being able to hang out with my friends.
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The tech industry - and, more specifically, Silicon Valley - continues to stumble forward in earnest about how few women are represented in its top ranks of management and on its boards.
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What we want is to make something that fills utterly the sight and can't be used to make life only bearable.
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I'm a real common sense guy who caught a lot of good breaks and who has been very, very fortunate.
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After seeing 'Big,' I wanted an elevator that opened directly into my apartment, just like Tom Hanks did.
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An American of the present day reading his Sunday newspaper in a state of lazy collapse is one of the most perfect symbols of the triumph of quantity over quality that the world has yet seen.
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There wasn't really a song or artist that made me want to be a singer, I think I was always a fan of country music.
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I think I'm as good if not better than everyone else.
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I am not opposed to intelligence reform on its face, but any changes should reflect the current context.
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I will go running when I'm stressed out. The running helps, but more than anything, I'll put music on and then I'll run. I'll cry and get it all out.
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The process of reclaiming the self is one of reconciliation with meaning.
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We do not think clearly about our moral obligations to animals.
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In 1966, thoughts about playing games using an ordinary TV set began to percolate in my mind.
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The sky is a free asset in design, and nothing unnecessary should be planted that takes away the sky.
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Telly never has any smart, amusing intellectuals living on a council estate.
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I never really thought I was going to be a singer, honestly. I never listened to singers; I always listened to rap music.
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I want to apologize to all of the people I have let down because of my behavior which has reflected badly on my family, friends, co-workers, business associates and others.
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Career is important, but nothing really supersedes my roles as a mother.
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My mother said to me, 'If you are a soldier, you will become a general. If you are a monk, you will become the Pope.' Instead, I was a painter, and became Picasso.
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I'd love to do well on a big weekend with people watching and cheering, of course. But it's not fair to create an expectation level before I know what is realistic. I want to finish as well as possible. Is that top 20? Top 15? Top 25? You just have to play it by ear.
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I never like to get political, but when you have the ability, through your media, to influence a large mass of people, I would want to be a part of the evolving cycle of progress vs. keeping things the way that they are.
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The stupid believe that to be truthful is easy; only the artist, the great artist, knows how difficult it is.
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Basic research is what I am doing when I don't know what I am doing.
