Kip Thorne Quotes

Sending people into space is very important culturally. That's really the justification. You cannot rationally justify it on the basis of the science and technology we get out of it.

Kip Thorne

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• The great sin was adopting the 21st Century's Socialism, something that not even its founder, Ditrich knows exactly what it is, though he says it is under construction.

  

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• Censorship is advertising paid by the government.

  

  Federico Fellini
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• I'm not the type of person that is forced.

  

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• Often, little situations trigger enormous reactions. Be there, present for it. Your partner will find it easier to see it in you, and you will find it easier to see it in them.

  

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• You can't create a monster, then whine when it stomps on a few buildings.

  

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• I don't have a great instrument. I don't have the kind of ungodly control over my voice and body that great actors have. And I've worked with enough great actors to know that I'm not one.

  

  Aaron Sorkin
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• My mom was Jewish, so some would call me Jewish.

  

  Nathan Lane
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• A ton of little girls I talk to, they want to be actresses or singers or models.

  

  Cameron Russell
  • Want
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• We need to move past blame and make sure we are delivering care to our veterans.

  

  Ted Deutch
  • Past
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• I'll tell you something: my dad was a nuclear engineer and he was really bright, and I've always said that because of negotiating at such a young age with my dad, it was really such a gift because I could then negotiate with very difficult personalities - and not end up being the scapegoat. I learned to really pick and choose my battles.

  

  Faith Prince
  • Up
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• My favorite prayer is Footprints in the Sand. You know that prayer? I know the times that he carried me, you know? I kind of wore him out.

  

  Aaron Neville
  • Me
  • Prayer
  • Sand

• Every DC or Marvel property is constantly getting reinvented because we love these characters. They're so iconic, and we want to watch them over and over again.

  

  D. J. Cotrona
  • Want
  • Characters
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• The very elements of what constitutes good nursing are as little understood for the well as for the sick. The same laws of health or of nursing, for they are in reality the same, obtain among the well as among the sick.

  

  Florence Nightingale
  • Good
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• I don't ever want to feel complacent.

  

  Taraji P. Henson
  • Want
  • Feel
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• Actors should never be important. Only directors should have power and place.

  

  D. W. Griffith
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  • Power
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• Everything I do is blown out of proportion. It really hurts my feelings.

  

  Paris Hilton
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• When men are full of envy they disparage everything, whether it be good or bad.

  

  Tacitus
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• The reality is that most celebrity defendants are extremely unknowledgeable, naive, and vulnerable, and if they get into trouble, they usually call their lawyer friends who handle criminal cases, and if they don't know any, they call their business lawyers, who then refer them to lawyer friends of theirs.

  

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• What you say and do in a crisis matters.

  

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• I go to the airport and I've had everything taken away from me because of the terrorists. People haven't realized yet, though, that we are at war.

  

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• Nuclear power is a young technology - there's so much more to be discovered. That's what makes it so exciting to me. Yes, there are problems, but innovative people are going to be able to come up with solutions and bring the technology to its full potential.

  

  Leslie Dewan
  • People
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• There's almost 70 billion in square feet under construction in high rises in commercial, residential and light manufacturing. And we estimate about 30 billion square feet, and that's with a 'B,' is commercial, that we would just consider office space. To put that in perspective, that's a 5x5-foot cubicle for every man, woman and child in China.

  

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  • High
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  • Space

• A poor, weak, palsy-stricken, churchyard thing.

  

  John Keats

• Sending people into space is very important culturally. That's really the justification. You cannot rationally justify it on the basis of the science and technology we get out of it.

  

  Kip Thorne
  • People
  • Important
  • Science