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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• Censorship is advertising paid by the government.

  

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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.

  

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

  

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

  

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

  

  Ted Deutch
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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.

  

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• 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.

  

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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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• Everything I do is blown out of proportion. It really hurts my feelings.

  

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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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• Despair has its own calms.

  

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• Hitherto no rival hypothesis has been proposed as a substitute for the doctrine of transmutation; for 'independent creation,' as it is often termed, or the direct intervention of the Supreme Cause, must simply be considered as an avowal that we deem the question to lie beyond the domain of science.

  

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• I think I matured quite early, but what that does mean is I have moments of complete immaturity. When I come home, I don't want to be an actor. I just want to be a kid. I barely even know what money is.

  

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• I was hurtling towards 40, and I'd always wanted to write. It does focus your mind, heading towards that big birthday. If there is anything you think you want to do, you think, 'I probably should have a go now!'

  

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• 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