Kate Adie Quotes
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With a 3D printer, you could build your own car, one part at a time. When you were finished, you'd have an automobile that is extremely lightweight because it is made of plastic, which is good because you'd need to carry it because it is made of plastic.
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I'm a little sheepish about it. Whenever I meet fans and they're like, 'Oh, you're so sexy,' I just don't get that. There's no way one man can be universally sexy.
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'Obvious' is the most dangerous word in mathematics.
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I feel sorry for the man who marries you... because everyone thinks you're sweet and you're not.
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There is always shame in the creation of an expressive work, whether it's a book or a clay pot. Every artist worries about how they will be seen by others through their work. When you create, you aspire to do justice to yourself, to remake yourself, and there is always the fear that you will expose the very thing that you hoped to transform.
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There is no such thing as a little freedom. Either you are all free, or you are not free.
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There is no self-knowledge but an historical one. No one knows what he himself is who does not know his fellow men, especially the most prominent one of the community, the master's master, the genius of the age.
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Going to bed can cause imaginary conversations you should have had with certain people or real conversations with your brother who is calling from a bar in a different time zone.
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And then my chance really happened in 1996 when we added the second flight of the tether satellite.
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I don't set out to win awards. I don't think any musician does, but when you receive an award, it's an affirmation: it means that people appreciate what you do. Every award I have received is a confirmation of something I have done, and that motivates me to push a little harder.
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Saints were saints because they acted with loving kindness whether they felt like it or not.
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I'm content with the fact that I made a decent effort. That's what I've always worried about: that I wouldn't try hard enough.
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If you have the ideas, and you're a creative person, then you don't really differentiate in how your ideas manifest themselves.
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The Ferrari is a beautiful car. It's great.
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Cornwall bears a certain resemblance to Italy: each is like a leg or boot, but Italy stands a-tiptoe to the south, whereas Cornwall is thrust out to the west. But, whereas Italy is kicking Sicily as a football, Cornwall has but the shattered group of the Scilly Isles at its toe.
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A cat is never vulgar.
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The love story for me was the nature of the love and not the age of the lovers.
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Science is not everything, but science is very beautiful.
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One thing I probably share with everyone else in the astronaut office is composure.
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We don't want to read a book. We want to live an experience.
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I have never had the ambition to be famous for nothing. You have to do something with your life.
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I don't have a lot of skills, but one thing I can do is, I can compartmentalize. I can make that a little world that I can go back to, so I can be a waitress, or I can be a teacher, and then go and work on my book.
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I don't want to be involved in endless media gossip.
