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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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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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'm not used to sensitivity any more. When I see people cry when I lose, save your tears. I don't know how to handle people crying any more. I lost my sensitivity like that. Please, you embarrass me when you cry because I don't know what to do when you cry. I don't know what to say.
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Keep alive the light of justice, And much that men say in blame will pass you by.
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Remember what is unbecoming to do is also unbecoming to speak of.
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She only knows headfirst. Shelley knows one way to play, and that's full speed.
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I've always said you might not ever see a mid-major go to the Final Four. When a mid-major wins a game, especially if it's not a good seed, if they play a powerhouse, getting to the Sweet 16 is like going to the Elite Eight. Going to the Elite Eight is like going to the Final Four, so George Mason has already won the national championship. If they win the next two games, they'll have won the world championship. They'll have to give them a gold medal.
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Just making the crowd laugh is not really doing things for me anymore. That's just knowing how to kill; I've learned how to kill – but also learned when a crowd's laughter is meaningful.
