Alan S. Kesselheim Quotes
Small mistakes, the lack of care, little accidents, and somewhere a tipping point is passed and things go badly wrong. Expedition history brims with tragedies built out of incremental missteps.
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We must develop huge demonstrations, because the world is used to big dramatic affairs. They think in terms of hundreds of thousands and millions and billions... Billions of dollars are appropriated at the twinkling of an eye. Nothing little counts.
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Everyone who likes my books is like me in some way.
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I like to do everything myself - I'm very hands-on with my housekeeping, my children, travelling, how I do things.
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I'm a journalist and author. I make my living by finding things out and writing about them.
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Calling Rand Paul 'the most interesting man in politics' is an invitation to an argument - but one we suspect he'd love to have.
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The penalty of success is to be bored by people who used to snub you.
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I created something that became a phenomenon without becoming a prisoner to it.
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I never figured I'd go into the Hall of Fame. A kid from the Hill.
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Whatever people thought the first time they held a portable phone the size of a shoe in their hands, it was nothing like where we are now, accustomed to having all knowledge at our fingertips.
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I don't think good and evil are polarized.
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This is a learning in the business life that first of all you need to have commitment, dedication and passion for what you are doing.
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Halas didn't believe in starting rookies.
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In studio films, everything has to be boxed in, everybody needs to know beforehand - this is comedy, this is sci-fi, this is drama - and what's the point of independent film if you don't get to experiment?
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In the course of the reform, some new circumstances that we had not anticipated have appeared.
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None of them want to delay. Understand that. None of them.
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A life is not important except in the impact it has on other lives.
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The Democrats' drive to defeat Neil Gorsuch is the latest battle in a 50-year war for control of the Supreme Court - a war that began with a conspiracy against Richard Nixon by Chief Justice Earl Warren, Justice Abe Fortas and Lyndon Johnson.
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A woman always has her man, but the man unconsciously leans on his roots, his heritage. He feels like an orphan without his parents.
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Don't get up from the feast of life without paying for your share of it.
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There's an unexpectedly high share of workers still in agriculture, .. That's like a fault line.
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I don't care where I have to go for work. I just care that it's a good project. That's what I want.
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Oh, the Protestants hate the Catholics/ And the Catholics hate the Protestants/ And the Hindus hate the Muslims/ And everybody hates the Jews.
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Small mistakes, the lack of care, little accidents, and somewhere a tipping point is passed and things go badly wrong. Expedition history brims with tragedies built out of incremental missteps.
