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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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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I want a big house with a moat and dragons and a fort to keep people out.
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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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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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What happens is consciousness operates in mysterious ways. One of those ways is that the old paradigm suddenly starts to die.
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My varied listening palette is all-inclusive of all walks of life. No one individual is exempt from the human experience, so it is that intangible that is a universal truth. In that regard, I've had success in encapsulating something cosmic.
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Childhood doesn't have to be perfect, and children don't have to be beautiful. From a bit of grit may grow a pearl, and if pearl production doesn't materialise, the outcome will still be preferable to the shallowness of vanity.
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Nobody's perfect and I don't want to try and portray that but I'm genuinely doing the best I can out here; trying to support my family the best that I can, trying to make them proud and happy and everybody having the best life they can live. I'm trying to provide a better life for them than I had.
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I have this theory that, depending on your attitude, your life doesn't have to become this ridiculous charade that it seems so many people end up living.
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I felt very strongly about the Ashley Madison thing. Of the 39 million people who signed up for Ashley Madison, only a tiny percentage of them actually had an affair. And I'd go a step further and say even if they did, it's none of our business, frankly.
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The high-grossing films are not all that interesting to me, I have to say. It's not stuff I would want to be in. Yes, you would want the big paycheck, but that's never really been my concern.
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The best revenge you can have on intellectuals is to be madly happy.
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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.
