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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The hardest part of writing 'William Shakespeare's Star Wars' was probably the sheer amount of iambic pentameter and tiptoeing around certain scenes I knew would be hot-button issues for 'Star Wars' fans.
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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'd like to make the film of Sam Selvon's book 'The Lonely Londoners.'
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If I could prescribe a single rule for looking at a work of art it would be to enjoy it. If we're honest with ourselves, we have to admit we enjoy our tears just as much as we enjoy our laughter. The only moments of life that are a bore are when we don't care one way or another.
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Philanthropy, although it's tiny compared to the government, it's 2% of the US economy, which is the largest percentage, other than the Middle East.
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I think we need to do a little more all-weather testing.
