Leroy Chiao Quotes
Rockets have remained fundamentally unchanged, except for a few exceptions for the last almost 50 years. So, for there to be a fundamental shift in rocketry and getting into space, there almost has to be a breakthrough in propulsion. Either in how to bring the price down, or how to more efficiently get people up into space and the key barrier is the expense of a rocket.
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One must always try to see the truth of a situation - it makes things universal.
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The average man's judgment is so poor, he runs a risk every time he uses it.
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I like to act. Every other aspect of show business I find uninteresting.
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What you want to do is you want to own as little sort of hard infrastructure as possible, and your real value is your name and how you build that up.
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In China, we don't know about the swimming pool game, but we know about Marco Polo.
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I didn't want to be a slave to any passion anymore. I gave up card playing altogether, even bridge and gambling - more or less. It took me a few years to get out of it.
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Science without respect for human life is degrading to us all and reflects a hollow and deceptive philosophy, a philosophy that we as a people should never condone.
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Historically, the Balkans have been an incubator of war.
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My hope that Thatcher would inadvertently bring about a new political revolution was well and truly bogus. All that sprang out of Thatcherism were extreme financialisation, the triumph of the shopping mall over the corner store, the fetishisation of housing and Tony Blair.
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I don't believe in writer's block.
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What gives the artist real prestige is his imitators.
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I don't think any media has to feel obliged to show the cover of 'Charlie Hebdo.'
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What is wrong with George Bush? What is his problem?
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I have been in Sorrow's kitchen and licked out all the pots. Then I have stood on the peaky mountain wrapped in rainbows, with a harp and sword in my hands.
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When you're bad in the NBA, you're in the lottery. When you're great in college, you get multiple lottery picks.
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Competition is like a treadmill. If you stand still, you get swept off. But when you run, you can never really get ahead of the treadmill and cover new terrain - so you never run faster than the speed that is set.
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Women just love to shop.
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I think there's a couple of things going on. One is that Trump's relationship with his base is not the traditional relationship of a politician and the people who elected him, and the constituency, which is a relationship of some accountability, right? The idea is that the politicians are working for the people. They're public servants.
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The Photograph is concerned with the power that the past has to interfere with the present: the time bomb in the cupboard.
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One can not impede scientific progress.
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But I love the idea - whether it's in my work or where I live - exploring new frontier, and I like putting myself in strange places and trying to survive and figure things out and gather up an infrastructure. I like knowing that I could figure out a way to live anywhere.
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That period of history has always fascinated me - Greek history, Greek mythology.
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No, I've never thought that I was gay. And that's not something you think. It's something you know.
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Rockets have remained fundamentally unchanged, except for a few exceptions for the last almost 50 years. So, for there to be a fundamental shift in rocketry and getting into space, there almost has to be a breakthrough in propulsion. Either in how to bring the price down, or how to more efficiently get people up into space and the key barrier is the expense of a rocket.
