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Helen Sharman Quotes

Politicians and the government have become too interested in short-term gains. Of course, if you look at the direct financial returns in the short term, human space flight is expensive. But they need to look longer term.

Helen Sharman

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: scientist
Nationality: british
Birth: May 30, 1963

Topics

Government Space Financial Short You

I was involved in some of the very first meetings that created the maps that showed what would happen if you had a Category 1, 2 or 3 hurricane in New York.

Joe Lhota

New York Meetings You New First

My entire adult life has been devoted to family and career, each adding to the other in many rewarding ways. I have never felt that I had to set a pattern for my writing and teaching.

Sonia Levitin

Life Family Writing Career Never

I think it's evident that expensive neighborhoods in Seattle are surrounded by natural beauty. That elevates city life. So if we can make cities more attractive in the long run, we can be smarter about issues like development, zoning and economics.

Stone Gossard

Life Beauty City Economics Think

Uber exists because of mobile telephones.

Travis Kalanick

Because Mobile Uber Exists

I am free because I know that I alone am morally responsible for everything I do. I am free, no matter what rules surround me. If I find them tolerable, I tolerate them; if I find them too obnoxious, I break them. I am free because I know that I alone am morally responsible for everything I do.

Robert A. Heinlein

Freedom Alone I Am Me Free Rules

Being unemployed has so many real and palpable ramifications but there are also psychological side effects which you can only understand if you've truly lived through it.

Mika Brzezinski

You Understand Real Side Lived Only

Growing up, before my mom would cook our rice, she would rinse the rice out and pour it out three times. And after the fourth pour, she'd pour it into a little bowl, and she'd rinse her face with that. It's known to help whiten the skin and nourish it because essentially inside the water you have all the essential nutrients from the rice.

Michelle Phan

Water Mom Growing Up Face Help You

When it is real person, especially who means so much to millions of people, you have an obligation, you cannot take liberties, you cannot pretend to know. But we are telling the love story of Michael Aris and his wife, the story of a beautiful, lush country, and the emotions of a mother.

Michelle Yeoh

Love Mother Beautiful Wife People

When everything does seem out of control, writing fiction is a way I can order that chaos and restore some sort of meaning. I like the playful aspect of writing fiction. You know how it is when we are kids and we make up our worlds: You be this guy, and I am going to be this guy, and we are going to go slay dragons.

Miriam Toews

I Am Chaos Writing Control Meaning

I run into a lot of people who are instantly filled with ridicule at the idea that someone wouldn't eat meat.

Moby

People Someone Run Eat Meat Idea

One wonders whether the Obama re-election campaign may be on the right track as it seeks to apply the you-break-it-you-own-it rule to Bush and the American economy. Hardly a day goes by without President Obama or his surrogates arguing that it takes longer than four years to recover from an economic crisis so long in the making.

Jon Meacham

Day American Long Crisis Economy

There're so many great writers out there who aren't getting the exposure they deserve.

Jonathan Evison

Great Deserve Out Exposure Who Many