Rocket Science Quotes - Page 2

• It ain't always rocket science, sometimes a door is just a door.

  James Rollins

  Doors, Rockets, Sometimes

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• Once the rockets are up, who cares where they come down?

  Tom Lehrer

  Who Cares, Care, Rockets

  "Wernher von Braun" (song) (1965)

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• Rocket science has been mythologized all out of proportion to its true difficulty.

  John Carmack

  Rockets, Proportion, Difficulty

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• You don't have to be a rocket science to know that if Joe Teti has a rifle, and a round to go with it. I'm going hunting.

  Joe Teti

  Hunting, Survival, Rifles

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• It's not rocket science. Hong Kong has 95% tax compliance, because it's code is only 4 pages long with a 15% flat tax.

  Ziad K. Abdelnour

  Long, Pages, Rockets

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• It is this breathtaking image [of] success that motivates us and motivates kids to follow and understand rocket science: to understand the importance of physics and math and, in many ways, to have that awe at exploration of the frontiers of the unknown.

  Steve Jurvetson

  Motivation, Inspiration, Kids

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• Cycling is not rocket science.

  Jens Voigt

  Cycling, Rockets

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• You hang around with good people, you play a lot of golf, and you have a pretty good life. That's what success is all about. It's getting people you like, who want to take the hill with you, who want to win, who have the passion. This is not rocket science.

  Jack Welch

  Good Life, Passion, Golf

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• Every Iraqi would I know would rather have Saddam back... I mean like... that does not even take rocket science.

  Jodie Evans

  Mean, Doe, Rockets

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• Being the executive producer of a film is not that difficult. It just means that you have some power. There's not a huge amount of skill involved, I don't know how much I'm giving away here. I feel like that guy on Fox, giving away the magicians' tricks. It's not rocket science, being an executive producer of a film.

  Craig Ferguson

  Mean, Skills, Giving

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• This is not rocket science - climate science is very simple. A 12-year-old could probably understand this subject [of climate change].

  Arthur B. Robinson

  Simple, Years, Climate

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• I identify with other women because of my gender, and I identify with other women if they are mothers because I'm a mother, too. It's very simple. It's nothing complicated, it's not rocket science. It's about empathy. It's about understanding that what happens with one person is potentially what happens to you, and seeing yourself in someone else's shoes. Fundamentally, we are all in the same place: we're born, we live, and we're going to die. In between, we'll have joy and we'll have sadness.

  Annie Lennox

  Mother, Sadness, Simple

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• I think I was always able to laugh a lot at the industry - to be detached from it, even if some of the other models weren't. Jeez - it's hardly rocket science, is it? It's not as if you can get to be a better model..... .you can either get away with it, or you cant? And most of them were also acutely aware of the passage of time.....and how it would affect their careers.

  Ashton Kutcher

  Thinking, Careers, Laughing

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• Sometimes people try to give me advice going forward, and they say, "You know, you've just got to work to be more likeable in Washington." And I laugh and say, "You know this isn't rocket science.

  Ted Cruz

  People, Giving, Laughing

  Interview with Glenn Thrush, www.politico.com. July 18, 2016.

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• Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired, signifies in the final sense a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Peace, Military, War

  Speech to American Society of Newspaper Editors, Washington, D.C., 16 Apr. 1953

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• 'Rocket Science' is really where I fell in love with filmmaking, I think 'Camp' was incredible, but it was so bizarre, and I was trying to find my footing in this world where you don't have an audience for immediate validation.

  Anna Kendrick

  Movie, Thinking, Validation

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• Eventually private enterprise will be able to send people into orbit, but I suspect initially it's going to have to be with NASA's help. Whether it's going to be a consortium or one entity remains to be seen. I could be wrong. I could be one of the old fogies! Rocket science is tough, and rockets have a way of failing. It happens. A company has to be willing to bear the risk of its rocket failing. It's a very large capital investment.

  Sally Ride

  People, Risk, Able

  Interview with Jim Clash, www.askmen.com.

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• What patients want is not rocket science, which is really unfortunate because if it were rocket science, we would be doing it. We are great at rocket science. We love rocket science. What we’re not good at are the things that are so simple and basic that we overlook them.

  Laura Gilpin

  Simple, Would Be, Want

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• Building a business is not rocket science, it's about having a great idea and seeing it through with integrity.

  Richard Branson

  Inspirational, Business, Integrity

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• People always overestimate how complex business is. This isn't rocket science. We've chosen one of the world's simplest professions.

  Jack Welch

  People, World, Rockets

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• It's really not rocket science. If animals are not mere things; if they have moral value, we cannot justify eating, wearing, or using them particularly when we have no better reason than palate pleasure or fashion. If you are eating, wearing, or using animals, then your actions say that you regard them as mere things, despite what your words say.

  Gary L. Francione

  Fashion, Animal, Rockets

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• There's the whole myth about rocket science. It's really not that hard. It's not brain surgery.

  John Powell

  Brain, Rockets, Myth

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• It's too bad patient-centered care is not rocket science, because if it was, we would be really good at it.

  Laura Gilpin

  Would Be, Care, Rockets

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• Managing perfect body weight is not a complicated rocket science. Our body is made up of food which we eat during our day to day life. If we are overweight or obese at the moment then one thing is certain that the food which we eat is unhealthy.

  Subodh Gupta

  Body Weight, Perfect, Rockets

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• I don't think this is rocket science. I think we have some common interests, like dismantling our nuclear weapons, dealing with terrorism and, in my view, you know, [Barack] Obama is now cooperating with [Vladimir] Putin to drop bombs.

  Jill Stein

  Thinking, Views, Nuclear

  "Off Message" with Glenn Thrush, www.politico.com. September 19, 2016.

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