Gene Kranz Quotes
You can not operate in this room unless you believe that you are Superman, and whatever happens, you're capable of solving the problem.

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I realize we're not promised tomorrow. Believe me, I realize that. But if God blesses me and lets me stay, I love my life so much, it is such a good life. I am eager to throw myself at His feet, but I don't want to get on the first busload that is going.
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I'm no good with chords. I'm horrible with chords.
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You make knowledge relevant to life and you make it important for children to learn things that will really relate to things going on in their lives, and not abstract.
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I've got a PowerPoint deck that I use for internal presentations, and there's a slide on it that asks, 'What percentage of your game is combat versus exploration versus puzzle solving versus platforming,' and I refuse to answer that question.
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I chose films made by people I wanted to work with, about subject matter I thought was intriguing.
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The problem of distinguishing prime numbers from composite numbers and of resolving the latter into their prime factors is known to be one of the most important and useful in arithmetic.
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You get caught up in hitting home runs and seeing how far you can hit them, and your swing changes.
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With Donald Trump as president and Republicans in control of Congress, our healthcare is under attack.
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Just as the Supreme Court has said that women have the right to choose whether or not to be parents, men should also have that right.
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I think people would be most surprised to know that I love scary movies.
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I've done approximately 15 films, and most of the things I've done have either been stunt or costume work.
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Melody is king, and don't you ever forget it. Lyrics appear to be out front, but they're not; they're just an accompanying factor. If they're good, you're really in good shape. Lyrics are written to be rewritten.
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The cynicism that you have is not your real soul.
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I really wanted to do something positive on the Internet. I wanted to try to get young people talking about, thinking about, life's big questions-make it cool and OK to wonder about the heart, the soul and free will and God and death and big topics like that, big human topics.
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I was studying theater management, business stuff. About that time, I realized I really didn't like that, and it threw me into a panic attack a little bit. I was under the assumption that the first job you get out of college is the job you have for the rest of your life.
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The key to making a good forecast is not in limiting yourself to quantitative information.
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Where choice begins, Paradise ends, innocence ends, for what is Paradise but the absence of any need to choose this action?
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One cannot collect all the beautiful shells on the beach. One can collect only a few, and they are more beautiful if they are few.
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I love basketball.
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For the first five years of my life, things felt pretty good. A lot went wrong after that, family-wise.
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That's the problem today: Who is the creator?
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[Moralistic] novels are at the same disadvantage as teachers: children never believe them, because they make everything that happens relate to the lesson at hand.
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You can not operate in this room unless you believe that you are Superman, and whatever happens, you're capable of solving the problem.