Burt Rutan Quotes

A NASA-funded study estimates that if the price of a ticket to space approached $100,000, close to a million people would buy one. That's a $100 billion industry. Microsoft cofounder Paul Allen gave me $20 million in startup funding to go after that market.

Burt Rutan

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SpacePeopleMePriceGoStudy

I'm happy to be alive, I'm happy to be who I am.

Michael Jackson

I AmHappyAliveWhoAm

My dear doctor, I am surprised to hear you say that I am coughing very badly, as I have been practising all night.

John Philpot Curran

I AmDoctorNightYouSayBeen

My business is creating fame and celebrity, and I'm one of the best in the world. I know it to the finest detail. I reflect what's out there, and if there's a demand for something, I recognise it. I don't think I'm crass. I stand by everything I do.

Simon Fuller

BusinessBestDetailWorldThink

A society should never become like a pond with stagnant water, without movement. That's the most important thing.

Mikhail Gorbachev

WaterSocietyImportantBecomeNever

Most academic historians accept that historians' own circumstances demand that they tell the story in a particular way, of course. While people wring their hands about 'revisionist' historians; on some level, the correction and amplification of various parts of the past is not 'revisionism' as it is simply the process of any historical writing.

Michelle Dean

PastPeopleWritingStoryHandsWay

I'm not much of a cook. I used to keep books in my gas oven - until someone told me it was a fire hazard.

Michiko Kakutani

FireMeSomeoneUsedKeepCook

I felt the same when I went to Manchester United, to Madrid, to Leverkusen, and now at West Ham. The only pressure I have is my pressure. That's it.

Javier Hernandez

PressureNowSameUnitedWestOnly

The composition of a single melody is born out of a bit of text, perhaps the first line, but it can also be the entire strophe; it can even be the poem's overall form.

Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau

BornFirstSingleLineOutText

I sculpted for four or five years. Mostly for my own amusement, I decided to do a picture book, and that was kind of a turning point.

Chris Van Allsburg

BookPictureKindMy OwnYearsOwn

I always knew I wanted to be on air and travel the world and tell people's stories. I wanted to convey something from other cultures to the U.S. - and vice versa.

Clarissa Ward

TravelPeopleWorldCulturesAir

Stories aren't the beauty of what did happen. They're the beauty of what could happen.

Brad Meltzer

BeautyHappenStoriesDidCould

Some people are genetically programmed to be difficult.

Bruce Kent

PeopleSome PeopleDifficultSome

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