#mer

NASA is an engine of innovation and inspiration as well as the world's premier space exploration agency, and we are well served by politicians working to keep it that way, instead of turning it into a mere jobs program, or worse, cutting its budget. ↗

— Bill Nye

#budget #cutting #engine #exploration #innovation

If NASA is to reach beyond the Moon and someday reach Mars, it must be relieved of the burden of launching people and cargo to low earth orbit. To do that, we must invest more in commercial spaceflight. ↗

— Bill Nye

#burden #cargo #commercial #earth #invest

I'm not saying that there weren't other inherent problems with the score that couldn't have been overcome with a bit of remixing, but why did they ask me to do it, and why did Griffin ask me to do it this way, for a film that had nothing to do with American vernacular? ↗

— Michael Nyman

#ask #been #bit #did #film

Early on, they were timing my contract with an egg timer. ↗

— Conan O'Brien

#early #egg #timer #timing #were

In a prime-time address, President Bush said he backed limited federal funding for stem cell research. That's right, the President said, this is a quote, the research could help cure brain diseases like Alzheimer's, Parkinson's, and whatever it is I have. ↗

— Conan O'Brien

#alzheimer #backed #brain #bush #cell

My message to David Cameron, as the head of our government, is to seriously think again about this Robin Hood tax, the tax to help the poor by taking a little bit from the rich. ↗

— Keith O'Brien

#again #bit #cameron #david #government

We were a Western civilisation, an English speaking civilisation, both NZ and Australia, and we had all these influences coming from both Great Britain and America to us; sending us their culture in the shape and form of movies and television. ↗

— Richard O'Brien

#australia #both #britain #civilisation #coming

The march to our duty here, not merely to ourselves, but to our surroundings, must proceed. God wills it. ↗

— William H. O'Connell

#god #here #march #merely #must

That is the godawful thing about television today. Performers don't have any place to hit and miss. You're either in or you're out; you don't have a chance to become good at your craft. If you make three pictures in a row and they don't go over, you're out of the business. ↗

— Donald O'Connor

#any #awful thing #become #business #chance

It is a measure of the framers' fear that a passing majority might find it expedient to compromise 4th Amendment values that these values were embodied in the Constitution itself. ↗

— Sandra Day O'Connor

#amendment #compromise #constitution #embodied #expedient