Robert Ballard Quotes

Almost a quarter of our planet is a single mountain range and we didn't enter it until after Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin went to the moon. So we went to the moon, played golf up there, before we went to the largest feature on our own planet.

Robert Ballard

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MountainMoonGolfSingleUpOwn

I would not send a first story anywhere. I would give myself time to write a number of stories.

Jhumpa Lahiri

TimeMyselfStoryWriteFirstGive

Now is not the time to open the border to receive Canadian beef down to the United States.

Max Baucus

TimeBorderDownNowOpenUnited

I was a mother who worked ridiculously hard to keep catastrophe at bay. I didn't allow my kids to eat hamburgers for fear of E. coli. I didn't allow them to play with rope, string, balloons - anything that might strangle them. They had to bite grapes in half, avoid lollipops, eat only when I could watch them.

Ann Hood

FearMotherPlayHardRopeEat

I don't like touring and it seemed to be getting on top of me in a big way.

Andy Partridge

MeWayTopBigLikeTouring

If you've never founded a company, rest assured it never happens as elegantly and smoothly as articles in 'Inc.' and other business magazines or case studies suggest.

Steve Blank

BusinessRestYouNeverCompany

If you are a creative person, you try to create things that are an extension of yourself.

Rob Reiner

YourselfCreativeYouCreatePerson

I had dinner with Marlene Dietrich in the early 1970s. I went to pick her up and she had someone with her, a dreadful man. He was writing a book about her, and he said to her, 'You're so cold when you perform,' and she said, 'You didn't listen to the voice.' She said the difficulty was to place the voice with the face.

Robert Wilson

ManDinnerWritingBookColdFace

A fisherman, say, working on a beach doing his job, may be photographed by a tourist because it's photogenic to see him working, and the Caribbean is extremely photogenic, so poverty is photogenic, and a lot of people are photographed in their poverty, and sometimes it's kind of exploited.

Derek Walcott

BeachJobPeopleDoingPovertyKind

I love New York! It's probably my favorite city in the entire world.

Brad Goreski

LoveNew YorkCityWorldNewI Love

There's a lot of chatter in basketball and, rightfully, you want players to be talking to each other... But sometimes in practice, it gets too verbose... so I tried to take things out of the ordinary and make them special so they'd understand the difference.

Phil Jackson

PracticeBasketballTalkingYouWant

The cosmos is three times as old as Earth. During most of creation's 14 billion year history, our solar system wasn't around. Nonetheless, the early universe still had the right stuff for life, and contained worlds that were just as suitable for spawning biology and intelligence as our own.

Seth Shostak

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Even a smile is a good deed.

Shari Arison

SmileGoodGood DeedEvenDeed

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