Pete Conrad Quotes
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Wanted: a man who will not lose his individuality in a crowd, a man who has the courage of his convictions, who is not afraid to say 'No,' though all the world say 'Yes.'
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The world gets older, without getting either better or worse and so does literature. But I do think that the drab current phenomenon that passes for literary studies in the university will finally provide its own corrective.
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Democracies can't handle austerity measures very well.
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Once I can verify my account, I will have a Twitter.
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You get caught up in hitting home runs and seeing how far you can hit them, and your swing changes.
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I didn't go to school a lot.
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The idea that motherhood is inherently somehow a threat to creativity is just absurd.
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My parents did not discourage me but could not understand how I could make a living by art. Their idea of an artist was a person who was condemned to starvation.
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Like funny men, skilled diners are apparently perceived to have an evolutionary advantage.
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I feel more Jewish than I do Iranian.
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If you want to do something, what does it matter where you are ranked?
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There are a lot of gay people in fashion, but it's not as if every gay person is a great creator.
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I greatly fear some of America's greatest and most dangerous enemies are such as think themselves her best friends.
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Corruption is rife in the Muslim world, and when it is coupled with the marginalization of religion, it manifests itself as frustration and becomes a fertile recruiting ground for extremism.
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Children should always be brave and do something about bullying. It's not okay to stand by and let it happen. Bullies thrive off secrecy. Children should tell someone if they see someone being bullied.
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When I realized that if I was an actor, I could be any character I wanted instead of just one particular, I was like, 'Wow, that's cool.'
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I love doing stunts.
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Don't do a startup unless you're ideologically driven to make it succeed beyond the economic motivation.
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I've been a free man.
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Bill Clinton was for NAFTA. I heard him over in Tokyo he came out all said it was a great bill. Secretary Clinton was for it. She called it the gold standard when she was secretary of state.
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No good act performed in the world ever dies. Science tells us that no atom of matter can ever be destroyed, that no force once started ever ends; it merely passes through a multiplicity of ever-changing phases. Every good deed done to others is a great force that starts an unending pulsation through time and eternity. We may not know it, we may never hear a word of gratitude or recognition, but it will all come back to us in some form as naturally, as perfectly, as inevitably, . . . as echo answers to sound.
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Music is something that should speak for itself, straight from the heart. It took me a long time to understand that.
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There is not much talking now. A silence falls upon them all. This is no time to talk of hedges and fields, or the beauties of any country. Sadness and fear and hate, how they well up in the heart and mind, whenever one opens pages of these messengers of doom. Cry for the broken tribe, for the law and the custom that is gone. Aye, and cry aloud for the man who is dead, for the woman and children bereaved. Cry, the beloved country, these things are not yet at an end. The sun pours down on the earth, on the lovely land that man cannot enjoy. He knows only the fear of his heart.
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I think we need to do a little more all-weather testing.