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apollo asking either fact moment national nobody reason resources serious warlike
The fact that it comes at a particularly inopportune moment is unfortunate, but either we are serious about long-term commitments like this or not. Nobody is asking for more money. Apollo was done as a warlike mobilization of national resources and there's no reason to do that now. John Logsdon
apollo ask generation interested people science talk technology work
So many people I talk to who work in technology, you ask them, 'What got you interested in science?' and those from my generation say, 'The Apollo landings.'
apollo both civilization creating due effort failed inertia knew measured moon paradigm possible realize remember time true
I remember the moon landings, and Apollo was the paradigm by which all progress was measured at that time. And I knew that creating a true space-faring civilization was both possible and practical. What I failed to realize was that the effort would fail due to bureaucratic inertia and political apathy. Karl Schroeder
apollo car circuits computer days fix radio understand unless
There are more computer circuits on the radio of a new car than there were computer circuits on Apollo missions. These days everything is interconnected with computers. So unless you understand physics, you're not going to be able to fix a car.
apollo early flight growing rockets travel
Growing up in the '60s and early '70s, with the space flight and the Apollo program, I always loved planes. I always loved rockets and I always loved space travel. Stewart O'Nan
apollo condense days four given rather tedious
Given that the movie had to condense four days into two hours, and given that the communications were sometimes rather tedious and technical, it was pretty accurate, ... Apollo 13. Fred Haise
apollo bandstand chance name travel york
He got a chance to go on American Bandstand and travel up to New York to the Apollo and so forth. He still didn't make a whole lot of money, but at least his name was spreading.
apollo awhile ball finish hitting hoping ourselves pick since strong swept
Our hitting was good. We put the ball in play and hit the ball hard. It had been awhile since we swept a team. We are hoping to finish strong in the Apollo and pick ourselves up a little bit.
apollo awesome born control crossing dad experience fingers house late mission room space tense though time trek watching
I was born too late to experience Apollo 11, though I do trek to Dad's house every time there's some space event. There's something awesome about crossing your fingers and watching a tense Mission Control room do their thing. Andy Weir
asking may usual
In cases of doubtful morality, it is usual to say is there any harm in doing this? This question may sometimes be best answered by asking ourselves another; is there any harm in letting it alone? Charles Caleb Colton
asking good-enough enough
I found I wasn't asking good enough questions because I assumed I knew something. Alan Alda
ask china friendly stay
We want to stay friendly with China. We would like to ask China to be a little more transparent.
asked felt knew
We knew they were big, but we felt we were more athletic. They did everything I could have asked for. G. H. Hardy
asking good grass people problems unless
We know we're going to have problems unless we get a really good rain. We've had a lot of grass fires, so we are really asking people to show some restraint.
asking help improve state trying workers
We know we have workers on Medicaid. We're trying to improve that. We're asking the state to help us improve that, but we're not getting any answers.
asking
We know he's very talented. We're asking a lot of him, but he's up to the task. Rob Blake
ask continue friendly hears hope labor passengers public
We know he isn't a transit-friendly, labor friendly governor. I hope he hears the public and passengers out there. We will continue to ask him.
ask best louisiana music
When I was around them, they'd ask if we had any of that Louisiana music. You've got the some of the best music in the world right here in Louisiana.
generations stills popping
You know I've got a generator that's still popping. Chita Rivera
generation shall till unto verily
Verily I say unto you, This generation shall not pass, till all these things be fulfilled.
generation pass shall till unto verily
Verily I say unto you, This generation shall not pass away, till all be fulfilled.
generation shall till unto verily
Verily I say unto you, that this generation shall not pass, till all these things be done.
generations social program
Social Security is a program that should be strengthened and preserved for future generations. Diane Watson
generations my-generation
My generation is under-entertained. Dave Chappelle
generations theme endure
I'm interested in themes that endure from generation to generation. David Guterson
generations next problem
The problems that agitate one generation are exstinguished for the next, not because they have been solved but because the general lack of interest sweeps them away. Cesare Pavese
generations ethics tendencies
It is not new for the older generation to bewail the indolence of the young, and there is a tendency for the latter to maintain much of the older ethic screened by a new semantics and an altered ideology. David Riesman
interested start sure talking
We want to start talking (soon) and make sure we let them know we want them. They've let us know they're very interested in talking.
interested
We are at capacity. We are interested in getting new equipment. John Parsons
interested quick safe using
We're interested in using it if the waivers are in place and it's a safe alternative, ... This is not a quick fix. It could be a multi-year process.
interested spend time uses
We're interested in knowing, ... how much each one of you uses the Internet. How much time do you spend on it? Judy Woodruff
interested parties solution
We?re in discussions with other interested parties ... to see what kind of solution we could come up with.
interested plays son
We have a son that plays for one of the schools. I'm very interested in men's basketball. Charles Clarke
interested whether
whether or not I'd be interested is a whole other issue. Rod Paige
interested movies
When I was making my first films, I was very interested in Hollywood B movies. Park Chan-wook
interested
We're so interested in it because it's different for everyone. Joyce Brothers
people waiting thank-god
I can't wait to get off the bus and... go on stage and entertain people. That's my thing, that's what I love. I love doing it... I thank God I can make a living doing it. Charlie Daniels
people understand-me audience
The people are applauding you because none of them understands you and applauding me because everybody understands me. Charlie Chaplin
people special architecture
The building is a special place because of its architecture; But it's people who make it special by participating in it.
people helping i-can
I am for people. I can't help it.
people dictator
Dictators free themselves, but they enslave the people.
people wicked-world wonderful
Life could be wonderful if people would leave you alone
people rich assured
If there are people at once rich and content, be assured that they are content because they know how to be so, not because they are rich Charles Wagner
people want chance
The public airwaves provide a chance to affirm we want to be a good, decent people; a good, decent nation. Charles W. Pickering
people slavery congress
The slave power dares anything, and it can be conquered only by the united masses of the people. From Congress to the people, I appeal. Charles Sumner
science uniforms taste
In science, reason is the guide; in poetry, taste. The object of the one is truth, which is uniform and indivisible; the object of the other is beauty, which is multiform and varied.
science disorder cures
No disorders have employed so many quacks, as those that have no cure; and no sciences have exercised so many quills, as those that have no certainty.
science mind cost
The acquirements of science may be termed the armour of the mind; but that armour would be worse than useless, that cost us all we had, and left us nothing to defend.
science tolerance religion
We are not clear as to the role in life of these chemicals; nor are we clear as to the role of the physician. You know, of course, that in ancient times there was no clear distinction between priest and physician. Alan Watts
science socks until wait
Wait until you see the science that is going to come back from this mission. It's going to know your socks off.
science air useless
The edifice of science not only requires material, but also a plan. Without the material, the plan alone is but a castle in the air-a mere possibility; whilst the material without a plan is but useless matter. Dmitri Mendeleev
science elements weight
When the elements are arranged in vertical columns according to increasing atomic weight, so that the horizontal lines contain analogous elements again according to increasing atomic weight, an arrangement results from which several general conclusions may be drawn.
science order law
If all the elements are arranged in the order of their atomic weights, a periodic repetition of properties is obtained. This is expressed by the law of periodicity.
science judging hammers
What happens if a big asteroid hits Earth ? Judging from realistic simulations involving a sledge hammer and a common laboratory frog, we can assume it will be pretty bad. Dave Barry
talking words-of-wisdom sitting
When I have heard him talking to Papa during the sittings for the picture, I have sat wondering whether it could be that he has no belief in anybody else, because he has no belief in himself. Charles Dickens
talking judging mind
It has been well observed that the tongue discovers the state of the mind no less than that of the body; but in either case, before the philosopher or the physician can judge, the patient must open his mouth.
talking world human-nature
There are prating coxcombs in the world who would rather talk than listen, although Shakespeare himself were the orator, and human nature the theme!
talking people realizing
People often say to me, 'I understand what you are talking about intellectually, but I don't really feel it, I don't realize it,' and I am apt to reply, 'I wonder whether you do understand it intellectually, because if you did you would also feel it.'
talking listening ordinary
We have somehow conned ourselves into the notion that this moment is ordinary. This now moment, in which I'm talking and you're listening, is eternity.
talking topics los-angeles
If you spend any time in Los Angeles, there's only one topic of conversation. Alan Rickman
talking bored actors
What is it about actors? God knows I get bored with actors talking about themselves.
talking people signing
I genuinely like the people I meet at signings or the bits of public talking that I do. Alan Moore
talking today economy
I don't know where the stock market is going, but I will say this, that if it continues higher, this will do more to stimulate the economy than anything we've been talking about today or anything anybody else was talking about. Alan Greenspan
technology hands people
Technology is destructive only in the hands of people who do not realize that they are one and the same process as the universe.
technology civilization goal
...the materialism of modern civilization is paradoxically founded on a hatred of materiality, a goal-oriented desire to obliterate all natural limits through technology, imposing an abstract grid over nature.
technology fit lifestyle
The success of SYNC is another proof point that we are doing just that. We will continue to innovate and expand the capability of SYNC by integrating even more new technologies that fit our customers’ lifestyles. Alan Mulally
technology matter watches
It doesn't matter what the technology is - no one will watch a Peter Greenaway film anyway. Alan Parker
technology fields needs
The computing field is always in need of new cliches. Alan Perlis
technology thinking people
I think it is inevitable that people program poorly. Training will not substantially help matters. We have to learn to live with it.
technology bird worms
In software systems it is often the early bird that makes the worm.
technology two benefits
Technology is always a two-edged sword. It will bring in many benefits, but also many disasters.
technology amish kind
I'm remote from most technology to the point that I'm kind of Amish.
work quality may
Although profoundly "inconsequential," the Zen experience has consequences in the sense that it may be applied in any direction, to any conceivable human activity, and that wherever it is so applied it lends an unmistakable quality to the work.
work apology giving
Give a civil servant a good case and he'll wreck it with clichés, bad punctuation, double negatives, and convoluted apology. Alan Clark
work mean doing-nothing
If I am doing nothing, I like to be doing nothing to some purpose. That is what leisure means. Alan Bennett
work sleep thinking
A gentleman ... sleeps at his work. That's what work's for. Why do you think they have the SILENCE notices in the library? So as not to disturb me in my little nook behind the biography shelves. Alan Ayckbourn
work play able
You've got to get good habits of working hard so that when that play comes up during the regular season that you're able to complete it and do it the right way. Al Kaline
work people kind
Japanese people tend to be much better adjusted to the notion of work, any kind of work, as honorable. Akio Morita
workout training cardio
I do a dance-based cardio workout infused with circuit training, and emphasizing strength and alignment. Chloe Sevigny
work
Very enthusiastic and very intelligent. I know he'll work at it.
work looks calm
Work, look for peace and calm in work: you will find it nowhere else.