Hyman G. Rickover Quotes
In greek mythology, Antaeus was a giant who was strong as long as he had contact with the earth. When he was lifted from the earth he lost strength. So it is with engineers. They must not become isolated from the real world...
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How small a part of time they share, That are so wondrous sweet and fair!
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I don't like the blame game, though.
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My mother has been the greatest influence on my life, morally. When I get right down to it, my mother and father are two people I can count on no matter what.
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You have to be willing to ask questions that almost no one else would ask.
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My core belief is that if you're complaining about something for more than three minutes, two minutes ago you should have done something about it.
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Michael Jackson wanted to be in Men in Black II. He told me he had seen the first Men in Black in Paris and had stayed behind and sat there and wept. I had to explain to him that it was a comedy.
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Humor can be an incredible, lacerating and effective weapon.
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Communities don't think, don't believe, don't want, don't have needs, don't have interests and don't make decisions. Only individuals have minds that generate desires and needs - and only individuals can make choices and decisions.
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I was very aware of Jeff Buckley. My brother actually bought me The Mamas And The Papas and Jeff Buckley for my birthday when I was in my early teens.
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Sharks are being driven to extinction because people want to eat their fins and their flesh.
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I don't want to just go out and do song to song to song. I like to create things before the song actually kicks in, little things you do to excite the crowd.
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I've sung background for a couple of bands.
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The best fiction stays with you and changes you.
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We excuse our sloth under the pretext of difficulty.
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It's true, you never forget your first love, and, for me, that will always be Paris.
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My father cared about the world he lived in, and so he admitted his confusion about his place in America because he didn't want me to make the same mistake in my life.
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A shady business never yields a sunny life.
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I admired anyone who could unsettle people.
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Good ideas are like Nike sports shoes. They may facilitate success for an athlete who possesses them, but on their own they are nothing but an overpriced pair of sneakers. Sports shoes don't win races. Athletes do.
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I'm not terribly happy about rock and roll. Certain rock music is uninspiring, numbing; it makes you feel like an idiot.
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The atmosphere, the earth, the water and the water cycle - those things are good gifts. The ecosystems, the ecosphere, those are good gifts. We have to regard them as gifts because we couldn't make them. We have to regard them as good gifts because we couldn't live without them.
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I like the consistency of having people in my life for a long time.
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Fans make you understand it was more than music to them. It was a movement, a voice they felt they didn't have that we expressed for them.
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In greek mythology, Antaeus was a giant who was strong as long as he had contact with the earth. When he was lifted from the earth he lost strength. So it is with engineers. They must not become isolated from the real world...
