Alberto Santos-Dumont Quotes
I never thought that my creation, would allow brothers to kill brothers. (after seeing his invention being used in war, The Airplane)
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The penalty may be removed, the crime is eternal.
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You can bring people together around the issue of economic fairness. I don't want to be a mayor that goes into one neighborhood and gets jeered, and goes into another neighborhood and gets cheered.
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I was only interested in my scene, and I had to go through thousands and thousands of other scenes. I got my scene and I read it many, many, many, many, many times. That was my research.
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My greatest trouble is getting the curtain up and down.
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Pilates is great.
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Now it is human nature to want to eat to ones fill when hungry, to want to warm up when cold, to want to rest when tired. These all are a part of people's emotional nature.
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The very first tournament I watched is the U.S. Open when I was 13. And that was the year Juli Inkster won.
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It doesn't seem expected for us to do something like that, but I love electronic music. I spend a lot of my time listening to that and just trying to understand what makes it work - what makes it move people the way it does and why they have some of the best-selling festivals in the world.
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I get a feeling about where a teammate is going to be. A lot of times, I can turn and pass without even looking.
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Women are over 50 percent of the population.
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It has always been the task of formal education to set up behavior which would prove useful or enjoyable later in a student's life.
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I see my work, as being determined by the fact that I was born in 1936.
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I'm drawn to kids that are already born. I think some people are meant to do certain things, and I believe I'm meant to find my children in the world somewhere and not necessarily have them genetically.
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Falling in love is not an extension of one's limits or boundaries; it is a partial and temporary collapse of them.
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If you look at where presidents come from, they're former governors or senators.
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Biotech and geo engineering have the same mindset, of engineering, of power, of control, of mastery of nature.
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I do not think there is any thrill that can go through the human heart like that felt by the inventor as he sees some creation of the brain unfolding to success ... Such emotions make a man forget food, sleep, friends, love, everything.
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I do think in general, women have a value system. And it's that value system that I think is feminism. Not "men are bad, women are good, let's get women empowered" - it's let's get this value system, which is about the capacity to feel and empathize with life, and therefore to protect it.
