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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Suppose that a person writes what she must. That is only the first step of becoming a writer. The work must survive the moment of creation. It must get out to an audience. She or he must dare to show the work. She must risk ridicule, misunderstanding, scandal, condemnation, & what's often worse, none of the above: silence. No attention at all.
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Whatever I hold in my mind tends to manifest itself in my life. What we believe and assume creates most of our reality and our experience.
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Bottom line is, I didn't return to Apple to make a fortune. I've been very lucky in my life and already have one. When I was 25, my net worth was $100 million or so. I decided then that I wasn't going to let it ruin my life. There's no way you could ever spend it all, and I don't view wealth as something that validates my intelligence.
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I never thought that my creation, would allow brothers to kill brothers. (after seeing his invention being used in war, The Airplane)
