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• When I'm the speaker, I know that special moment [just before speaking] is the only time I will have the entire audience's full attention. Unless an alien spaceship crash-lands on stage midway through the talk, the silence before I begin is the most powerful moment I have. What defines how well I'll do starts with how I use the power of that moment.

  Scott Berkun

  Powerful, Land, Silence

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• For at least 2,000,000 years men have been reproducing and multiplying on a little automated spaceship called earth.

  R. Buckminster Fuller

  Men, Moon, Years

  "The Prospect for Humanity," Saturday Review, 29 Aug. 1964

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• Courage has become Raiders of the Lost Ark, or riding in spaceships, killing people, taking enormous physical risks. To me, the kind of courage that's really interesting is someone whose spouse has Alzheimer's and yet manages to wake up every morning and be cheerful with that person and respectful of that person and find things to enjoy even though their day is very, very difficult. That kind of courage is really undervalued in our culture.

  Mary Pipher

  Courage, Morning, Alzheimer's

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• ...but I also can't prove that mushrooms could not be intergalactic spaceships spying on us.

  Daniel Dennett

  Mushrooms, Religion, Prove

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• There are millions of people out there who would love to become astronauts, who'd love to go to space - they'd love to look back at this wonderful world from space. That will be the engine that will enable us then to develop spaceships to transport people around the world at tremendous speeds in an environmentally friendly way.

  Richard Branson

  Space, People, Friendly

  "Richard Branson Responds To Elon Musk's Criticism; 'We're About To Prove Him Wrong'". Interview with Henry Blodget, www.businessinsider.com. October 18, 2014.

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• The rockets and the satellites, spaceships that we're creating now, we're pollinating the universe.

  Neil Young

  Creating, Rockets, Satellites

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• Im fascinated by anything that deals with the unexplained. I love any show that totally makes me want to know more. How did they build these pyramids? Why did they find these carvings that look like spaceships?

  Elena Satine

  Pyramids, Looks, Want

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I would not be able to change a sparking plug and I would not be able to fly a spaceship or build a rocket or whatever. But what I am good at doing is finding brilliant people and surrounding myself with brilliant people.

  Richard Branson

  People, Able, Rockets

  "Richard Branson Responds To Elon Musk's Criticism; 'We're About To Prove Him Wrong'". Interview with Henry Blodget, www.businessinsider.com. October 18, 2014.

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• If it is finally accepted that the personality in whole or part survives death - and I believe that it will be - then such a belief will be considered as modern as a belief in spaceships and rockets.

  Jane Roberts

  Believe, Afterlife, Personality

  Jane Roberts (2000). “ESP Power”, p.248, Frederick Fell Publishers

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• I'm 40 now, but I want this to be a company that lives way beyond me, and I believe that customers are more important to making that happen than press. When I'm dead, hopefully this house will still be going. On a spaceship. Hopping up and down above earth.

  Alexander McQueen

  Fashion, Believe, House

  "Alexander McQueen's death mourned by fashion world" by Esther Addley, www.theguardian.com. February 11, 2010.

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• The seven of us on board [the Space Shuttle] represented five different religions. But we were all agreed - it just doesn't make sense how people on earth treat each other. It doesn't make any difference what language we speak. It doesn't make any difference what country we come from. It certainly doesn't make any difference what the color of our skin is. We are all children of God traveling on spaceship earth together.

  Jake Garn

  Country, Children, Color

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• (Talking about his first computer) Like all kids we not only fooled around with our toys, we changed them. If you've ever watched a child with a cardboard carton and a box of crayons create a spaceship with cool control panels, or listened to their improvised rules, such as "Red cars can jump all others," then you know that this impulse to make a toy do more is at the heart of innovative childhood play. It is also the essence of creativity.

  Bill Gates

  Children, Fun, Heart

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• What does it mean for a civilisation to be a million years old? We have had radio telescopes and spaceships for a few decades; our technical civilisation is a few hundred years old ... an advanced civilisation millions of years old is as much beyond us as we are beyond a bushbaby or a macaque

  Carl Sagan

  Mean, Technology, Years

  Carl Sagan (2011). “Cosmos”, p.337, Ballantine Books

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• We are going to have to find ways of organizing ourselves cooperatively,sanely, scientifically, harmonically and in regenerative spontaneity with the rest of humanity around the earth.... We are not going to be able to operate our spaceship earth successfully nor for much longer unless we see it as a whole spaceship and our fate as common.

  R. Buckminster Fuller

  Peace, Fate, Ubuntu

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• I'd like to go to another planet, which I might live long enough to accomplish. Just get on a spaceship and go. But not the moon. I don't see any flowers there. The moon is too close. I want to go further.

  Shirley MacLaine

  Flower, Moon, Long

  "Shirley MacLaine grows old and mean - for "Bernie"". Interview with Zorianna Kit, uk.reuters.com. April 24, 2012.

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• Back when I was a professional model-maker at Industrial Light & Magic, my specialty was hard-edged construction - spaceships, miniature sets, and architectural stuff. These objects were sometimes just 12 inches across yet needed enough detail to fill a movie screen.

  Adam Savage

  Light, Magic, Details

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• Basically you can do anything in a film. I could have place a spaceship in the middle of a street. You can do anything, and I love to talk about this because is so organic to the process.

  Kleber Mendonca Filho

  Film, Middle, Process

  "Interview: Kebler Mendonça Filho on his film ‘Neighboring Sounds’". Interview with Carlos Aguilar, www.indiewire.com. December 5, 2013.

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• I was quiet, a loner. I was one of those children where, if you put me in a room and gave me some crayons and a pencils, you wouldn't hear from me for nine straight hours. And I was always drawing racing cars and rockets and spaceships and planes, things that were very fast that would take me away.

  Gary Oldman

  Children, Drawing, Car

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• That's the storyboard that we have in the beginning [of Valerian]. It's an easy shot. It's just a spaceship coming in. That's the first layout. On the first layout, we see the timing of the shot and the speed. It starts to get some shadows, and we see that everything is moving in the back.

  Luc Besson

  Moving, Shadow, Firsts

  Source: www.slashfilm.com

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• My husband is like, "Oh, thank God we didn't have a boy, because there's this train set that I've always wanted, and these Star Wars spaceships . . ." They say, "Don't spoil your kids," but it's one thing spoiling your kids, it's another thing spoiling yourself.

  Milla Jovovich

  Stars, Husband, War

  Interview with Glenn O'Brien, www.interviewmagazine.com. February 12, 2009.

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• More than any other setting - more than battlefields or boardrooms or a spaceship headed for intergalactic travel - I'll put my money on the family to provide an endless source of comedy, tragedy and intrigue.

  Joyce Maynard

  Tragedy, Comedy, Source

  "Family Is Ultimate Source Of Inspiration" by Joyce Maynard, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 18, 2010.

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• I was fortunate enough, after many visits to many wonderful, weird people to come across Burt Rutan, who is a genius in the Mojave Desert. And SpaceShipOne was born and had three flights into space that won something called the X Prize. And from there, we're building SpaceShipTwo, which is ... a beautiful spaceship that is very, very, very nearly completed and will be ready from about next Christmas onwards to start taking people into space.

  Richard Branson

  Beautiful, Space, People

  "Richard Branson: Time To Rethink 'Business As Usual'". "Talk of the Nation" with Neal Conan, www.npr.org. December 1, 2011.

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• I stare at her, as dumbstruck as if she'd just admitted she's a Scientologist with an invitation to join Tom and Katie on the spaceship when it shows up.

  Meg Cabot

  Staring, Shows, Invitations

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• Grab something off the shelf that's on the spaceship-an ashtray, it doesn't matter what. Because I can tell you, if they flew here from another galaxy, no matter what you've pulled off the shelf, it'll be unlike anything we have on Earth.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Earth, Matter, Aliens

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• People are hungering for property — for a secure, permanent and independent link with spaceship earth that ownership represents and which only ownership can protect or defend. It is humiliating to possess nothing, to own nothing, and hence to produce nothing and to count for nothing.

  Louis O. Kelso

  Independent, People, Links

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