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I'm just glad it'll be Clark Gable who's falling on his face and not Gary Cooper.
Gary Cooper on his decision not to take the leading role in "Gone With The Wind....
A cookie store is a bad idea. Besides, the market research reports say America likes crispy cookies, not soft and chewy cookies like you make.
Response to Debbi Fields' idea of starting Mrs....
We don't like their sound, and guitar music is on the way out.
--Decca Recording Co. rejecting the Beatles, 1962....
Heavier-than-air flying machines are impossible." --Lord Kelvin, president, Royal Society, 1895.
If I had thought about it, I wouldn't have done the experiment.
The literature was full of examples that said you can't do this....
So we went to Atari and said, 'Hey, we've got this amazing thing, even built with some of your parts, and what do you think about funding us?
Or we'll give it to you. We just want to do it. Pay o...
Professor Goddard does not know the relation between action and reaction and the need to have something better than a vacuum against which to react.
He seems to lack the basic knowledge ladled o...
You want to have consistent and uniform muscle development across all of your muscles?
It can't be done. It's just a fact of life....
Drill for oil? You mean drill into the ground to try and find oil?
You're crazy." --Drillers who Edwin L. Drake tried to enlist to his project to drill for oil in 1859....
Stocks have reached what looks like a permanently high plateau.
--Irving Fisher, Professor of Economics, Yale University, 1929....

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