Kevin A. Ford Quotes
I made about fifty-four dollars a week and spent it on two flying lessons every week at the age of sixteen and was able to get a license then pretty early and knew that that's what I wanted to do, some kind of a career in aviation. I did know about space flight, but at that point, it was still pretty far out there.
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I promised my mom that if, after a year of putting 150 percent into my career it didn't work out, I would go back to school. I never did go back.
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If you love attention and have a pretty decent voice, that's a pretty good combination.
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So most astronauts getting ready to lift off are excited and very anxious and worried about that explosion - because if something goes wrong in the first seconds of launch, there's not very much you can do.
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If I can create some space that people haven't experienced before and if it stays with them or gives them a dream for the future, that's the kind of structure I seek to create.
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I started modelling when I was 13, so I learned a lot of things. I actually love doing make-up on other people, too.
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Bollywood has always pampered heroes and treated actors as second class citizens. But, of late, it has realised that there has to be space for actors who can connect with people.
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Even these stars, which seem so numerous, are as sand, as dust - or less than dust - in the enormity of the space in which there is nothing.
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I did successfully kick tobacco at the age of 34. I smoked for like 20 years, from 14 to 34.
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Deacon Jones has been the most inspirational person in my football career.
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I see my fans as music lovers. I really love that. There's no age group or demographic. It's people of all ages and backgrounds. Country people and non-country people. I wanted to make music across the board.
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I am proud of my career.
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According to the National Institute on Drug Abuse, the first use of alcohol typically begins at age 12.
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On Earth, men and women are taking the same risks. Why shouldn't we be taking the same risks in space?
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Mainly, I hope to inspire honesty. We live in a space where so much can be manipulated, and so much is expected to be manipulated - curated, contrived, edited. I think that's a real detriment to self expression and happiness in a lot of ways. In my mind, honesty and vulnerability is the way forward.
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'The Secret River' began because, at the age of 50, I suddenly realised I knew nothing about how my own family had got its foothold in Australia.
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Age puzzles me. I thought it was a quiet time. My seventies were interesting and fairly serene, but my eighties are passionate. I grow more intense as I age.
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Once in a while, the thumb that fits over the neck of the guitar kinda bothers me a little bit, but not that much yet. I figure in time I won't do much because of my age.
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It's like tabloid news programs that talk about how horrible something is, while at the same time they're glorifying it as their top story.
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If you don't define the problem you'll never reach a painful solution.
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You care about the deficit because it allows you to do things you need to do to help people who are suffering.
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Keeping the Sabbath day holy is much more than just physical rest. It involves spiritual renewal and worship.
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Brands are about editing.
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I counted myself so plain, so poorly made, that no honest love could come to me.
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I made about fifty-four dollars a week and spent it on two flying lessons every week at the age of sixteen and was able to get a license then pretty early and knew that that's what I wanted to do, some kind of a career in aviation. I did know about space flight, but at that point, it was still pretty far out there.
