Jim Lovell Quotes
After six successful Apollo flights, including two lunar landings, people were getting bored.
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Smaller wrestlers are built for more exciting matches.
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I used to never feel pressure to be creative; it's always just been a fun thing. And then suddenly, it's my job, and people are asking, 'Where's the record?'
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I grew up watching 'Raging Bull.'
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I was born and brought up in the countryside. I used to live in a sort of converted stables on the grounds of a castle, and I spent a lot of my childhood running around with a pretend sword pretending to be Robert the Bruce.
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A good opening and a good ending make for a good film provide they come close together.
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Public opinion is a permeating influence, and it exacts obedience to itself; it requires us to drink other men's thoughts, to speak other men's words, to follow other men's habits.
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Some artists get so comfortable now after even one or two albums and think, 'I'm the biggest artist in the world,' but it's like, yeah, you are for now, but you've gotta work so that you're remembered further, and that's what I'm trying to do.
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There are as many forms of happiness as sorrow, though most prove fleeting.
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The moral is that a career can be gone in an instant. And all you have in this world are the people you love.
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One of the things I would love for people to think about is social responsibility. If you are fortunate enough to be someone who owns land, I think you ought to be making the most efficient use of that land possible.
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My appetite for public policy and changing it, and not only being a part of the conversation, but affecting it in a positive way, never diminished after 10 years in Congress.
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In the '70s, my playing was completely untutored, but it sounded good to me, and I tried to find ways to make those very simple things work in more ambitious contexts.
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It got so bad that by the time I was graduated, the only reading I did was in order to get the grade and the only writing I did was in order to get the grade.
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Rag paper, containing hemp fiber, is the highest quality and longest lasting paper ever made. It can be torn when wet, but returns to its full strength when dry.
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America has absorbed people from around the world, and there is an Indian in every part of the world. This characterizes both the societies. Indians and Americans have co-existed in their natural temperament.
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I think of myself as a musician and not a celebrity. Celebrity status is something you have to deliberately pursue - I couldn't imagine myself seeking that.
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A lot of girls think they have to choose between being the smart geeky type or the beautiful bimbo.
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I can tell you who I'd like to work with as far as rock legends. Definitely Dave Grohl from the Foo Fighters. Of course Linkin Park. Actually, I already worked with Travis Barker on a couple of things. Gotta let the drummer get some. Possibly Paramore, Hayley Williams.
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If you listen carefully to Rick Santorum, he sounds more like Stalin than Pope Innocent III.
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My favorite prayer is thank you. Most people are asking for things and not doing their part.
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I've spent a long time giving people the benefit of the doubt, and I'm tired of it.
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We needed to make a few more plays. I think field position was an issue and not being able to get enough plays when we needed to.
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When I was 6, I learned where I came from, which was one step removed from the usual circumstances. I was adopted.
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After six successful Apollo flights, including two lunar landings, people were getting bored.
