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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You can't wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.
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It is the job of the dog trainer to summon the dog's genetics, not to impose man's will over dog's.
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I definitely want to act, but hosting is something that I am really enjoying. The first show I ever hosted was 'Jhalak Dikhla Ja.' I was super nervous then, but now I am very comfortable.
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It is easy to make a picture of someone and call it a portrait. The difficulty lies in making a picture that makes the viewer care about a stranger.
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I keep on fighting as long as my opponent can make a mistake.
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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.
