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Retain the vision for space exploration. If we turn our backs on the vision again, we're going to have to live in a secondary position in human space flight for the rest of the century.
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Reviewers are forever telling authors they can't understand them. The author might often reply: Is that my fault?
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Reviewers are usually people who would have been, poets, historians, biographer, if they could. They have tried their talents at one thing or another and have failed; therefore they turn critic.
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Revolutions have never lightened the burden of tyranny: they have only shifted it to another shoulder.
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Rhetoric is a poor substitute for action, and we have trusted only to rhetoric. If we are really to be a great nation, we must not merely talk; we must act big.
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Ridicule has always been the enemy of enthusiasm, and the only worthy opponent to ridicule is success.
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Right around 2004 when 'Ray' came out, I made a conscious decision to be more discerning because I thought to myself, 'After something like this, I really have to try to be strong enough to turn stuff down.'
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Right before 'Brian's Song' there was a period when I was very despondent, broke, depressed; my first marriage was on the rocks. The role of Gale Sayers had been cast with Lou Gossett, and then he hurt himself playing basketball. I was called in to read for the role. I was their last choice, and I knew it.
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Right now a moment is fleeting by! Capture its reality in paint! To do that we must put all else out of our minds. We must become that moment, make ourselves a sensitive recording plate. give the image of what we actually see, forgetting everything that has been seen before our time.
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Right now, they feel they have lost their voice, and their miseries have increased since my departure.
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Roman civilization had achieved, within the bounds of its technology, relatively as great a mastery of time and space as we have achieved today.
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Romance has been elegantly defined as the offspring of fiction and love.
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Romanticism has never been properly judged. Who was there to judge it? The critics!
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Romney-Ryan is likely the best matched 'team' that has been on a national ticket in a very long time.
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Roy Keane and Paul Scholes were unbelievable players. You cannot compare yourself to them. It is impossible. Scholes especially, I like him a lot, and I have a lot of respect for what he did for United.
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Roy was just another bureaucrat to me, but I realized very soon that without Roy this thing would have died.
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Running is what keeps my weight down. I have to stay active or I could easily gain weight.
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Russia - having sat across the table from Vladimir Putin, it's pretty clear when you meet him that he has an almost limitless ambition for power. And he's been very good at acquiring it - political power, economic power, military power, territorial power.
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Russia perhaps is still entertaining the possibility that the moons of Mars might have access to ice or water.
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