Sally Ride Quotes
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I feel like I'm going backwards, actually, as I get older. I'm regressing. I feel more and more like a kid, which is kind of a fun feeling.
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I don't speak Spanish. I understand enough of it, having spent some time running Telemundo, and I put in a lot of time in Spain during the Barcelona Olympics. But I don't pretend to speak Spanish, and I don't want anyone to think that I can.
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Don't get between me and a really good picture in the darkroom, because then I want to go straight to the darkroom and develop it. But once that's done, I'm fine.
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There are some things I wish I never knew, but I am grateful for things that I have learned, too.
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Never for the sake of peace and quiet deny your convictions.
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It is said that the West had a global policy in regard to Islam. That is stupid. There isn't a global Islam.
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I've not conducted my life in the service of smallness.
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You can't hit what you can't see.
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English fiction was something I loved growing up, and it changed my life - it changed the trajectory of my life.
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Part of my life is spent designing in urban centers, and part of my life has been spent in factories. But the other part of my life is spent in nature.
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She is still less civilized than man, largely because she has not been educated.
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I'm high maintenance, but I'm worth it.
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The stream of civilisation flows on like a river: it is rapid in mid- current, slow at the sides, and has its backwaters. At best, civilisation advances by spirals.
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Normally, learning lines is fairly easy for me, but when you add an accent onto that, it adds a complexity that I had not anticipated.
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I've been most happy to be an advocate for the kinds of grassroots things that people are doing who care about poetry.
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You have to be a champion in all facets of life.
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Some people find an interest in making money, and though they appear to be slaving, many actually enjoy every minute of their work.
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I am a lucky man. I have had a dream and it has come true, and that is not a thing that happens often to men.
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Authors need to decide if they want to keep forever to themselves, or share forever with a publisher who takes over half the cover price.
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Better a fallen rocket than never a burst of light.
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Unless Americans come to realize that they are not stronger in the world because they have the bomb but weaker because of their vulnerability to atomic attack, they are not likely to conduct their policy at Lake Success the United Nations or in their relations with Russia in a spirit that furthers the arrival at an understanding.
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I don't have any nicknames.
