Andy Weir Quotes
Back in the days of Apollo, sending humans to the moon was the only viable way to get the scientific data we wanted. But now, with our computer and robotics technology, there's very little an astronaut can do on Mars that a well-designed rover can't.Andy Weir
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The Romantics were whipping boys of the New Criticism, but they appealed to me anyway. I was recalcitrant. It was clear to me that they had thought innovatively.
M. H. Abrams -
How lucky are we to have Naomi Watts and Sean Penn playing us? We've seen the final cut now a couple times, and the scenes with the marriage fraying at the edges are still very difficult to watch. However, our hope was that no matter your political persuasion, you're taken with the idea that it's important to hold power in check.
Valerie Plame -
Studies show that children of divorced parents can have outcomes as positive as those coming from intact homes, provided the father remains financially supportive and active in his children's lives.
Larry Elder -
I knew it would break his heart if I didn't go into the business.
Ida Lupino -
I want people to recognize me for the work I do now as a model, and not something I did three years ago.
Fatima Siad -
The best way to cope with trouble is to stay out of it as much as possible.
Jack Nicklaus
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I don't want everything to be flowery perfection. I like it there to be a charge behind it, you know?
Irvine Welsh -
Since the end of the Cold War, metropolitan elites everywhere have identified progress and modernity with the cornucopia of global capitalism, the consolidation of liberal democratic regimes and the secular ethic of consumerism.
Pankaj Mishra -
It is not length of life, but depth of life.
Ralph Waldo Emerson -
There are no major cities I haven't been in - at least once. I'd be just as happy not to go out of town for a couple of months and play with toys.
F. Lee Bailey -
They hate whom they fear.
Quintus Ennius -
Sound is a huge influence on peoples' attention.
Walter Murch
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I just want to be the best Carly Rae I can be.
Carly Rae Jepsen -
My life is exactly the way it needs to be.
Octavia Spencer -
When you as a designer design something that burdens a community with maintenance and old world technology, basically failed developed world technology, then you will crush that community way beyond bad design; you'll destroy the economics of that community, and often the community socially is broken.
Cameron Sinclair -
If you had a really good - battery, it wouldn't matter that the sun goes down at night and the wind stops blowing sometimes. But at the moment, battery technology is nowhere near good enough to use at utility scale.
Nathan Myhrvold -
People in Russia adapt to misery by a deep, deep humor.
Ian Frazier -
I've known Bret Michaels forever.
Eddie Trunk
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I’m just very careful with my words when I write. Obsessively careful. I’m the sort of person who worries about the difference between 'slim' and 'slender.'
Patrick Rothfuss -
Illusions of grandeur are not the same as visions of greatness.
Edwin Louis Cole -
I'm not embarrassed by any of my music. I'll even own up to the old Backstreet Boys albums.
Jessie Usher -
Character and emotionality don't always have to be relegated to quieter, more simple constructs.
Kathryn Bigelow -
The bay-trees in our country are all withered, And meteors fright the fixèd stars of heaven. The pale-faced moon looks bloody on the earth, And lean-looked prophets whisper fearful change. Rich men look sad, and ruffians dance and leap; The one in fear to lose what they enjoy, The other to enjoy by rage and war. These signs forerun the death or fall of kings.
William Shakespeare -
Back in the days of Apollo, sending humans to the moon was the only viable way to get the scientific data we wanted. But now, with our computer and robotics technology, there's very little an astronaut can do on Mars that a well-designed rover can't.
Andy Weir