"I think everyone, once in his life, should be given a ticker-tape parade."

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Source : Gene Kranz (2009). “Failure Is Not an Option: Mission Control From Mercury to Apollo 13 and Beyond”, p.338, Simon and Schuster

Gene Kranz

#Thinking Quotes #Tape Quotes #Should Quotes

“The Almighty has His own purposes.”
“Do you believe today that the right to privacy does exist in the Constitution?”
“When the wrong question is being asked, it usually turns out to be because the right question is too difficult. Scientists ask questions they can answer. That is, it is often the case that the operations of a science are not a consequence of the problematic of that science, but that the problematic is induced by the available means.”
“One of the best things to do sometimes is simply to be.”
“Eventually, most people felt MoMA had filled a very important gap.”
“It seems an odd idea to my students that poetry, like all art, leads us away from itself, back to the world in which we live. It furnishes the vision. It shows with intense clarity what is already there.”

Source : Helen Smith Bevington (1961). “When Found, Make a Verse of”
“I used to get some flack from my agents because I wouldn't even audition for parts where the hero uses violent force to be a hero.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Most young people now are very vulnerable as to what the American film aficionados are going to say. They care too much about a system that has no room for them. It's really a serious issue for me, because to me it's, how do I survive beyond a film that was disgraced or praised?”

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