Jim Lovell Quotes
Be thankful for problems. If they were less difficult, someone with less ability might have your job.
Quotes to Explore
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I didn't choose to write a military man as much as Vince Haven chose me.
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They do believe that if we do not wage this war against terror in places like Baghdad and Kabul, we are more likely to have it waged in Baltimore and Kansas.
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In a marathon, if you run too fast, you get exhausted. If you run too slow, you never make it.
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Village cricket spread fast through the land.
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You have to find a way - and thankfully for me, it's been music - to separate yourself from the racial identity. It's not easy, and I continue to work, God bless, and I'm really, truly appreciative of it.
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I love all things Christmas.
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We have to still develop the Ikea group. We need many billions of Swiss francs to take on China or Russia.
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You can have religion with spirituality. You can also have religion without spirituality.
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I wanted to be a bull rider when I grew up.
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I never felt popular as a child and never had best friends.
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Compromise, contrary to popular opinion, does not mean selling out one's principles. Compromise means working out differences to forge a solution which fits the diversity of the body politic.
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Death is a zero sum game for which there is no cure.
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If you don't ever stop singing, your voice stays in shape. It's like the marathon runner. You've got to run, run, run to stay in shape.
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The two sensibilities, the visual and the verbal, have always been linked for me - in fact, while reading a particularly evocative passage, I will imagine what the photograph I'd take of that scene would look like, even with burning and dodging notes. Maybe everyone does this.
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Beelzebub is the isolated part of the human being. This part or this real human being has been obscured by religious structures.
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Your most precious possessions on offense are your twenty-seven outs.
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Educators shouldn't be afraid of cliches. You know why? Because kids don't know most of them! They're a new audience. And they're inspired by cliches.
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If rock-and-roll is well done, there's nothing so terribly wrong with that kind of music. But the lyrics are another story.
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I hadn't ever worked with an 'editor' until I was 26 - although that could be partly chalked up to the MFA vs. NYC thing, where I came up through institutions that encouraged writers to write privately for a long, long time and not sully themselves with concerns about audience or the business side of writing.
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Every clarification breeds new questions.
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The Homestead plant, taken as a whole, is complete and finished in every department. There is nothing of any consequence to be desired. It is the first time I have ever been connected with any works that I could say it is finished and complete and to my entire satisfaction.
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Anybody great, we're all interested in the relics. If you found an unfinished Gauguin, you'd still want to see it.
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Everyone is trying to reach for their own stars, and all of those stars aren’t light-years away. They are as close as our job, our family, our children, our next-door neighbors and our good friends.
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Be thankful for problems. If they were less difficult, someone with less ability might have your job.
