Rick Tumlinson Quotes

We have a space agency desperately in need of purpose, whose employees and capabilities have been wasted for decades on make-work projects and dead-end PowerPoint pioneering placebos designed to do nothing more than keep the billing high.

Rick Tumlinson

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PurposeSpaceEmployeesNothingNeed

That is one of the things about going on tour, that I get to work with some really talented people and it allows me to be able to listen to them as well - and just have fun on stage.

Joan Armatrading

WorkFunPeopleMeHave FunListen

With fashion, it's all about timing and holding out for the right thing.

Andreja Pejic

FashionTimingThe Right ThingRight

I'm always happy when I'm left alone, but if somebody comes and is nice, then we talk.

Maximilian Schell

AloneHappyNiceTalkAlwaysLeft

If a tech journalist needs financial security before doing what their conscience dictates, I'm not sure they should be calling themselves journalists at all.

Michael Arrington

FinancialDoingSecurityConscience

As they work hard for our children, America's teachers often reach into their own pockets to make sure they have the best classroom supplies. I feel strongly that the federal government should help make up for their personal financial burden.

John Warner

WorkChildrenTeacherBestWork Hard

The work itself is what motivates me. I like my own stuff, you know? I like the way it looks. I do it to please myself first.

Robert Crumb

WorkMyselfMeYouLooksKnow

We are ready to train new Iraqi forces outside Iraq. We did it in Abu Dhabi.

Joschka Fischer

TrainReadyNewOutsideForcesDid

To come out in the music business, you only really get one shot. A lot of people get to play small gigs first, and build up that way, without anyone really seeing them.

Dhani Harrison

BusinessMusicPeopleSmallYouWay

When I began going to school and learned to read, I encountered stories of other people and other lands.

Chinua Achebe

SchoolPeopleGoingReadStories

More interesting than thinking about what's possible in 10 years is thinking what's possible now but that no one has built.

Clay Shirky

ThinkingInterestingNowPossible

We are shaping young kids to be leaders in their communities and also to be healthier.

Brandi Chastain

YoungLeadersKidsShapingHealthier

We all know how we can be turned around by a magic place; that's why we travel, often. And yet we all know, too, that the change cannot be guaranteed. Travel is a fool's paradise, Emerson reminded us, if we think that we can find anything far off that we could not find at home.

Pico Iyer

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