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" Under a dictatorship, a nation ceases to exist. All that remains is a fiefdom, a planet of slaves regimented by aliens from outer space. "
Wole Soyinka
Dictatorship
Nation
Outer Space
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" Perhaps I seek certain utopian things, space for human honour and respect, landscapes not yet offended, planets that do not exist yet, dreamed landscapes. "
Werner Herzog
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" Wilderness trails constitute a rare space in America marked by economic diversity. Lawyers and construction workers get bitten by the same mosquitoes and sip from the same streams; there are none of the usual signals about socioeconomic status, for most hikers are in shorts and a T-shirt and enveloped by an aroma that would make a skunk queasy. "
Nicholas Kristof
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" The lunar flights give you a correct perception of our existence. You look back at Earth from the moon, and you can put your thumb up to the window and hide the Earth behind your thumb. Everything you've ever known is behind your thumb, and that blue-and-white ball is orbiting a rather normal star, tucked away on the outer edge of a galaxy. "
Jim Lovell
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Moon
Look
" We create the technology to connect the world. We are a large network company and not restricted to just the telecom space. "
Rajeev Suri
Technology
Just
Space
" I don't think I could live with anybody. I had roommates, and it's not for me. I like my space! "
Ashley Benson
Me
Think
Like
" It is theoretically possible to warp spacetime itself, so you're not actually moving faster than the speed of light, but it's actually space that's moving. "
Elon Musk
Speed
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Light
" My mind is stuffed with quotes. Lines, couplets, paragraphs, stanzas; Bessie Smith, Stevie Smith, Tin Pan Alley, rock and roll. They tease or lead or hurl me into a dream space of jostling languages that I need to bask in each day in order to write. "
Margo Jefferson
Rock And Roll
Mind
Me
" An optimist is a driver who thinks that empty space at the curb won't have a hydrant beside it. "
Jules Renard
Optimist
Empty
Space
" I claim that space is part of our culture. You've heard complaints that nobody knows the names of the astronauts, that nobody gets excited about launches, that nobody cares anymore except people in the industry. I don't believe that for a minute. "
Neil deGrasse Tyson
People
Space
Culture
" I think that feeling that if one believed absolutely in any cause, then one must have the confidence, the self-certainty, to go through with that particular course of action. "
Wole Soyinka
Think
Confidence
Action
" My acting has always been in the world of comedy, but in my writing, other than writing sketches, I really am drawn to the balance between comedy and drama. I like things that sort of toe that line of one minute you're in this emotional space and then all of the sudden something happens. "
Jim Rash
Balance
You
Space
" It's hard to be a teenager. It's lonely, and you feel like no one understands you. I think that's natural, and my mother let me have the space to feel that way. "
Dove Cameron
You
Lonely
Me
" Space is almost infinite. As a matter of fact, we think it is infinite. "
Dan Quayle
Think
Infinite
Fact
" Life science research can be done on multiple platforms. Since we have a very small number of people flying into space, the more people you have, the better. "
Laurel Clark
Life
Flying
People
" We had news this morning of another successful atomic bomb being dropped on Nagasaki. These two heavy blows have fallen in quick succession upon the Japanese and there will be quite a little space before we intend to drop another. "
Henry L. Stimson
News
Two
Successful
" Space is the stature of God. "
Joseph Joubert
Stature
Space
God
" I like to do things that are publicly embarrassing, to feel the embarrassment touch me and sink into me and then be gone. I like getting on elevators and singing too loudly in that small space. The feeling you feel is almost like a vapor. The discomfort and the wishing that it would end that comes around you. "
Stephen Colbert
Space
Singing
End
" We all know the sense of comfort of which we are conscious when a good half of the floor space in a room is unencumbered; this seems to offer us the agreeable possibility of moving about freely. "
Maria Montessori
Comfort
Us
Space
" If you want a nation to have space exploration ambitions, you've got to send humans. "
Neil deGrasse Tyson
Exploration
You
Want
" Houston, Tranquillity Base here. The Eagle has landed. "
Neil Armstrong
Eagle
Space
Houston
" Personality is the glitter that sends your little gleam across the footlights and the orchestra pit into that big black space where the audience is. "
Mae West
Black
Space
Personality
" I'm not very comfortable about the audience getting a peek into my personal life. I like to keep my personal space. "
Karishma Tanna
Personal
Like
Audience
" I got space from Travis Air Force Base, went back to the Philippine Islands and made it a point to meet the only American casting director in the Philippines. I was off and running. "
R. Lee Ermey
Meet
American
Air Force
" I believe Britishness is defined not on ethnic and exclusive grounds but through shared values; our history of tolerance, openness and internationalism; and our commitment to democracy and liberty, to civic duty and the public space. "
David Blunkett
Commitment
Space
History
" Sometimes I gotta look in the mirror and say, 'Hey, they're still saying you're too fat, but you're here! They gotta take it or leave it.' And in most cases, if they leave it, it's all good because they don't need to be in my space anyway. "
Kelly Price
Space
Good
Saying
" I like the sci-fi channel. Just science in general. I came across a segment on time travel and how time travel is possible. We create a spaceship that's moving at almost the speed of light, we go in that spaceship in outer space, and we fly around for a year, when we get back to Earth, Earth would've aged 10 years. "
Von Miller
Travel
Time
Space
" If you're going to go to the moon, you don't shoot the rocket right at the moon. You have to go at it obliquely. "
Drew Houston
Right
Rocket
Space
" The encouragement I got from Campbell was a quick check and praise. Once the Space Beagle was launched on its mission, it seemed natural for it to breed additional thoughts. "
A. E. van Vogt
Encouragement
Space
Thoughts
" Space Mountain may be the oldest ride in the park, but it has the longest line. "
Ric Flair
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May
Line
" We do a lot of science on the space station. Over the course of the year, there'll be 400 to 500 different investigations in all different kinds of disciplines. Some are related to improving life on earth in material science, physics, combustion science, earth sciences, medicine. "
Scott Kelly
Space
Life
Earth