Burt Rutan Quotes

By 1931, after a few years' experience of flying scheduled airlines, those planes were operating at roughly 600 times the safety of the space shuttle. I look at safety not in terms of fatalities per passenger-mile, but when you get in and close the door, what is the risk of dying on this flight?

Burt Rutan

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I have no line. If I think it's funny, it's funny.

Joan Rivers

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I'm not the sort of chap who can sit down and write music. When it comes, I'm happy.

John McLaughlin

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I'm a lawyer who, on occasion, represents celebrities.

Robert Shapiro

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I have been a journalist, off and on, since I was 17. I was a copy boy for the 'New York Times,' when it had an edition in Paris, in 1963. I sold the paper in the streets by day and tore wire copy off the tele-printer for the editors making up the edition by night.

Michael Ignatieff

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One of the things about acting is you can always use your life. You have to recall how you are and how people are and how you relate.

John Ritter

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It's no secret - if you know me, have ever met me or have shared a meal with me - that I'm a passionate environmentalist.

Sophia Bush

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Even spiritually advanced people are often confused. They feel an inner ecstasy which comes from the vital world, and they think this is the real delight. But it is not so. Real delight comes from the highest world to the soul, and from the soul it saturates the whole being.

Sri Chinmoy

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I was definitely a tomboy. I hated dolls.

Tonya Harding

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When I was 18, I went to India and was stupid enough to drink the tap water. I ended up with dysentery. It's not an experience I wish to go through again.

Tom Parker Bowles

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It's a daily miracle to see a child grow and develop all the senses and language and speech and faculties, and they're so much fun and they're so delightful and they're so innocent. It just stops your heart every time; I can't get enough of it.

Jann Wenner

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In Poland, my audience is all women between 18 and 30. At U.S. conventions, you have the fantasy and science fiction crowd. At Harvard you have an entirely different audience. It's so schizophrenic.

Jonathan Carroll

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When I started my hotel company, Joie de Vivre, at the age of 26, I saw this venture as my ticket to freedom.

Chip Conley

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