Gene Kranz Quotes
We had risen to probably one of the greatest challenges in history, put a man on the moon in the decade. We'd created incredible technologies. But what was most important, we'd created the teams, what I call the human factor. People who were energized by a mission.
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You see, O Greeks! The enemy already acknowledge the country to be ours; for when they made peace with us, they stipulated that we should not burn the country belonging to the king, and now they set fire to it themselves, as if they looked upon it no longer as their own.
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I can give you a six-word formula for success: Think things through - then follow through.
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You have succeeded in life when all you really want is only what you really need.
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People with water-borne diseases occupy more than 50% of hospital beds across the world. Does the answer lie in building more hospitals? Really, what is needed is to give them clean water.
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I'm honestly not the kind of person who wants to step up to a podium, test the microphone and be like, 'Hey, I'm homosexual and this is who I am, hear me roar.' That's not who I am.
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In 1921, Harry Houdini started his own film company called - wait for it - the Houdini Picture Corporation.
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You say something, things you would rather forget, and then they are out there. It makes me anxious and I don't know why people are interested in me anyway. If I had my way, I would rather exist in a little hole and not speak to anyone.
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It is never too late to get into tennis! While I started playing at the age of 8 when my parents gave me a tennis racquet for Christmas, tennis is a lifelong sport that can be enjoyed by people of almost any age. It's also something you never forget once you learn.
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I want a big house with a moat and dragons and a fort to keep people out.
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Believing a person deserves a defence is not the same as doing anything in your power to get him off scot-free.
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Nothing was more up-to-date when it was built, or is more obsolete today, than the railroad station.
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I spend most of my days pacing around, muttering that I have no ideas, feeling like I'm walking a plank.
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I was the muse of Tom Ford and Gucci for years, but that was a long time ago.
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All of a sudden, those few pages of script that he had shown me with the weird images I could visualize all of that in my brain, and I knew that there was this mad little genius at work here and I really wanted to do the film.
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April is the cruellest month.
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I am quite handy; not to sound bragadocious, but I've been working with wood and building things my entire life. I used to be a skateboarder and built ramps with my father. Then, the first two years I lived in Los Angeles, I worked as a carpenter building sets.
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A private ball this was called...but Lord! my dear Sir, I believe I saw half the world!
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The resurrection is In spirit done in thee, As soon as thou from all Thy sins hast set thee free.
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Some people say, 'Write what you know.' My thing is, 'Write what scares you.'
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We have all heard of these things before. The love letter arriving as the teacup falls. The guitar striking up as the last breath sounds out. I don't attribute it to God or to sentiment. Perhaps it's chance. Or perhaps chance is just another way to try to convince ourselves that we are valuable.
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The first instrument is not the final instrument.
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I find the 1940s very compelling. It is a very excitable period in the U.S. when, whether out of necessity or not, everybody was reinventing themselves.
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We had risen to probably one of the greatest challenges in history, put a man on the moon in the decade. We'd created incredible technologies. But what was most important, we'd created the teams, what I call the human factor. People who were energized by a mission.
