“I am a runner. That's what I do. That's who I am. Running is all I know, or want, or care about.”
Source: The Running Dream
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Peter Sellers (1925–1980) British film actor, comedian and singer
As quoted in Halliwell's Filmgoer's Companion (1988) by Leslie Halliwell, p. 622
“I'm still figuring out who I am. But at least I know what I want.”
Katherine Heigl (1978) American actress and film producer
InStyle magazine (2009)
Bill O'Reilly (1949) American political commentator, television host and writer
2004-02-10
Good Morning America
ABC
Television
in response to a request to make good on his 2003-03-18 promise to publicly apologize if weapons of mass destruction were not found in Iraq
“Basic research is what I am doing when I don't know what I am doing.”
Wernher von Braun (1912–1977) German, later an American, aerospace engineer and space architect
In an interview in the New York Times (16 December 1957), cited in a footnote on page 32 of "Work, Society, and Culture" by Yves Reni Marie Simon, and also in a footnote (in German) on page 360 of "Vita activa oder Vom taetigen Leben" by Hannah Arend (1981)
Variants:
Basic research is when I'm doing what I don't know I'm doing.
Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
Basic research is what I am doing when I don't know what I am doing.
Sylvia Plath (1932–1963) American poet, novelist and short story writer
Source: The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath