Burt Rutan Quotes

When there's ever a breakthrough, a true breakthrough, you can go back and find a time period when the consensus was 'well, that's nonsense!' so what that means is that a true creative researcher has to have confidence in nonsense.

Burt Rutan

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Dostoevsky is such a bad writer it is hard to take him seriously as a novelist, though he is a wonderful philosopher.

John Banville

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I think there's a weird stigma in the TV-film world that theater people can't be funny and understand subtlety, and I think that could not be more wrong.

Andrew Keenan-Bolger

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Not only has this subject been long associated with the ideas of thinking men over the ages but its practical importance is attested to by the huge resources of men and material thrown into this type of work.

Robert Hofstadter

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In this business, the minute you start feeling comfortable about the show you're doing or the ratings you're getting, you're in big trouble.

Matt Lauer

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The Hogwarts houses are really gangs. They have their own colours, their own hideouts, and they are always riding for each other, like gangs.

Angie Thomas

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Abortion is not health care. A woman has a right to her body, but that is not her body. What about the baby?

Alveda King

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There's a lot that's wrong with the way we work - bad habits that develop around control of information, people hoarding information as a means of preserving their own power. When you're using Slack, everyone can see what's going on because the default mode is public.

Stewart Butterfield

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Pop music allows you to be who you are without having to wear a social uniform or to conform, which some people find impossible to do.

Siobhan Fahey

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A good, sympathetic review is always a wonderful surprise.

Joyce Carol Oates

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I went to university and I was a bit out of my depth, socially.

Jason Isaacs

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It was part of my recruiting to go to Cal because they knew I loved to play baseball. I don't know if I was good enough to make the team, but I worked out with the guys, and it was a lot of fun.

Jason Kidd

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I studied piano for seven years and play for my own enjoyment.

Janet Yellen

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