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taken ideas people
I have done it [appointed commissions] regretfully and with the hope that it would be temporary. But after a commission is established you find it always wants to enlarge itself, employ more people, is very busy with Senators and Congressmen to impress upon them the great value of the services of the commission, and even when I talk to people that I appoint to commissions and tell them I would like them to go on to various boards with the idea that they may be abolished, they say they ought to be abolished, but when they have taken their position they very soon seem to change their mind. Calvin Coolidge
talking issues water
Theodore Roosevelt was always getting himself in hot water by talking before he had to commit himself upon issues not well-defined.
talking president speech
I shouldn't want you to be surprised, or to draw any particular inference from my making speeches, or not making speeches, out there. I don't recall any candidate for President that ever injured himself very much by not talking.
trust risk chance
Those who trust to chance must abide by the results of chance.
teaching responsibility preparation
Teaching is one of the noblest of professions. It requires an adequate preparation and training, patience, devotion, and a deep sense of responsibility. Those who mold the human mind have wrought not for time, but for eternity.
tables revolutionary multiplication
Don't hesitate to be as revolutionary as science. Don't hesitate to be as reactionary as the multiplication table.
time ambition effort
We cannot do everything at once, but we can do something at once.
taken men one-day
One day the President and Mrs. Coolidge were visiting a government farm. Soon after their arrival they were taken off on separate tours. When Mrs. Coolidge passed the chicken pens she paused to ask the man in charge if the rooster copulates more than once each day. "Dozens of times, was the reply." "Please tell that to the President," Mrs. Coolidge requested. When the President passed the pens and was told about the roosters, he asked "Same hen every time?" "Oh no, Mr. President, a different one each time." The President nodded slowly, then said, "Tell that to Mrs. Coolidge."
technology needs world
Getting enough energy to satisfy the needs of the developing world without bringing on an eco-disaster is not going to be easy. It will require a marriage of science and technology with good international policy, something that is always hard to bring off. We need to get it right this time. Burton Richter
technology years interesting
In 1948 I entered the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, undecided between studies of chemistry and physics, but my first year convinced me that physics was more interesting to me.
training swimmer runners
It's like a runner or a swimmer training all the time. I sing every day. Burton Cummings
trying may albums
There may be a new album, and there may not. Right now, we're encouraging bootlegging because there have been some great live things that ended up on the Internet. Rather than try to stop it, we like it. If nobody gave a crap about you, they wouldn't bother to bootleg you.
thinking sound compliment
The biggest compliment I get is that I don't sound like anybody else. I think I value that as the highest compliment.
thank-you keys
I sing in key, thank you very much.
thinking long-ago actors
Not long ago a friend asked me what was the greatest pleasure I got from spending my whole life as an actor. There have been so many that I had to think about that for a moment. Then I said, 'Like everyone else, I like to be with a happy crowd'. Buster Keaton
texan wells
I've always gotten along well with Texans. You've got to. Burt Reynolds
thinking important terrified
I'm terrified of marriage. I'm terrified of not doing something so important and at the same time I think you shouldn't rush into these things.
trying islam living-my-life
I try to really understand every aspect of the most high; for me, the most high is Allah... I live my life by Islam. Busta Rhymes
threat our-lives
The personal threat is something that's always been a part of our lives
thinking hip-hop hawaii
You think that you can hide; you think you can lay low? I'll roll up on your ass like Hawaii 5-0!
thinking years culture
My thinking is that if we're going to take from a culture, let's take from a culture that has exemplified success for thousands of years.
trouble
I have no trouble being a good dude because that's what I am.
taken tired eye
The photographs of space taken by our astronauts have been published all over the place. But the eye is a much more dynamic mechanism than any camera or pictures. It's a more exciting view in person than looking at the photographs. Of course, I personally am sick and tired of hearing people talk like that: I want to see it myself! Burt Rutan
thinking order space-flight
To allow public access to orbit, we would need breakthroughs that would lower the cost by a lot more than an order of magnitude and increase safety by a factor of 100 as compared to every launch system used since the first manned space flight. I think airborne launch will be a significant part of the safety solution.
technology yield space
In the coming era of manned space exploration by the private sector, market forces will spur development and yield new, low-cost space technologies. If the history of private aviation is any guide, private development efforts will be safer, too.
technology years car
I drove an electric car for seven years because of its advanced technology, not because I have any concerns about energy resources. I have none at all. And when environmentalists say that global warming is dangerous, unprecedented and that we'll have a tipping point for atmospheric carbon dioxide, it's just nonsense.
technology years space
Space travel is the only technology that is more dangerous and more expensive now than it was in its first year. Fifty years after Yuri Gagarin, the space shuttle ended up being more dangerous and more expensive to fly than those first throwaway rockets, even though large portions of it were reusable. It's absurd.
thinking years errors
From time to time I think I made some errors in judgment, but I have some really fashionable friends and I feel I've cultivated my own sense of style and what I feel comfortable with over the years. Busy Philipps
thinking people
I just like working with people that I respect and think are really funny.
thinking names said
We didn't name Birdie before she was born. When she came out I said, 'I think we gotta go with Birdie, I think that's her name.
teacher world-suffering literature
Suffering is one of life's great teachers. Bryant H. McGill
trying release controlled
When we try to control, we become controlled; when we release, we become free.
thinking happens
Nothing GREAT ever happens from thinking SMALL.