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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I built up these lumber piles of love, and with fourteen boards each I built little houses, so that your eyes, which I adore and sing to, might live in them. Now that I have declared the foundations of my love, I surrender this century to you: wooden sonnets that rise only because you gave them life.
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Women are not so well united as to form an Insurrection. They are for the most part wise enough to love their Chains, and to discern how becomingly they fit.
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Ah, what a dusty answer gets the soul when hot for certainties in this our life!
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Good reporting should have the same standard as in a courtroom - beyond a reasonable doubt.
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History has tongues Has angels has guns has saved has praised Today proclaims Achievements of her exiles long returned Now no more rootless, for whom her printed page Glazes their bruised waste years in one Balancing present sky.
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I think we need to do a little more all-weather testing.
