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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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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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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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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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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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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We must stifle the voice of hatred and faction.
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We don't want to repeat the unintended consequences that surfaced following the NAFTA agreement.
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Like most people, I shrink from exposing my innermost secrets and my most private and intimate actions.
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To me, running is therapy. It's mood-altering and gets my endorphins going. It's also a great release and a great energy builder.
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Speaking English is like tongue-twist for me. I can speak each word perfect, but then you have to string them together like, 'Blah, blah, blah.' That's when I get crazy.
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I am very shy with people I don't know.
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Now let it work. Mischief, thou art afoot. Take thou what course thou wilt.
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I am a believer in the fundamental doctrines of Christianity.
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I've got asthma. When I was 17 I forgot to take my medication and was taken to a hospital for almost two weeks. After that I've taken better care of my illness.
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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.
