Wubbo Ockels Quotes
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I think a lot of guys who are on the Internet a lot, they're kind of anesthetized to some of the violent language and all that because they see it all the time.
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I come from a theater background, and if you're doing a play, your audience is right there, and you're able to have that one-on-one experience. Doing more TV now, when fans come up to me on the street and talk to me on social media, that's a way to bridge that gap.
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Doing and making positive programming for young people is so important to me, and I will keep doing it.
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My greatest concern is that the emergence of this technology without the appropriate public attention and international controls could lead to an unstable arms race.
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Playing the quarterback position, there are so many things you need to master that improvement ends up taking place on graduated levels.
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I grew up in a very devoutly Christian home.
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The Bay of Pigs became a metaphor for feckless folly and failure.
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A merger is hard to pull off under any circumstances. It's harder when everybody is against you.
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What fascinated me, it was not the glory, but the contact with the public.
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I do like to make things difficult for myself and my team, just from taking on a challenge, if you like.
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Whoso taketh in hand to govern a multitude, either by way of liberty or principality, and cannot assure himself of those persons that are enemies to that enterprise, doth frame a state of short perseverance.
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We came down here for wind and sand, and we have got them.
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Perseus wore a magic cap that the monsters he hunted down might not see him. We draw the magic cap down over eyes and ears as a make-believe that there are no monsters.
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The doctrine of the Second Coming teaches us that we do not and cannot know when the world drama will end. The curtain may be rung down at any moment: say, before you have finished reading this paragraph.
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There were to be no short cuts to the truth. Instead he would have to adopt a longer, but a reasonably sure method. There would have to be conversation. Much conversation. For in the long run, either through a lie, or through truth, people were bound to give themselves away...
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YouTube is such a funny little world. You can create a fanbase.
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I want to be competitive; I want to run all over - I want to win.
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The reality is, for small businesses, there really aren't HR systems. Small businesses are rolling their own.
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I understand I have no place here. I understand I am lost in the god's eye. I understand I must find my purpose or I will go mad in this green, godless place.
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My basic influence had probably been Peter Max.
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I said to one of them, 'Look after the baby, I've got washing,' because we've got washable nappies. I said, 'Look after the baby. Entertain her, do some words,' because she's saying words, 'Do any words.' So I came back after I scraped all the stuff off, and he was going, 'Say, ‘Wigan Athletic!’'
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In critical ways, Obama has reversed not just Bush policy but every president's approach to the world since the Second World War, save for that of his soulmate Jimmy Carter.
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Borders are liminal spaces. Anyone worthy of the title of 'writer' is a border writer. We all are border people.
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There's only one earth. And there's no spare.
