Jim Lovell Quotes
The fascination to go into space has existed for hundreds of years. But as we do things and they're successful, people get bored.
Quotes to Explore
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I had no expectations of white people at all.
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Don't let nobody tell you that you can't do it. Love what you do until you don't love it anymore. Nothing's impossible.
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Public life is regarded as the crown of a career, and to young men it is the worthiest ambition. Politics is still the greatest and the most honorable adventure.
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I was always very determined and ambitious, and I knew I would do something that would let me travel and stuff, but I didn't know really know what I would do to get there.
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Comedy, we may say, is society protecting itself - with a smile.
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It is my fate and perhaps my temperament to sign agreements with fools.
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Since we can't count on the meat, egg, and dairy industries to protect animals from the most egregious forms of cruelty, what can we, as consumers, do? Opting out of paying someone to allow animals to die in a barn fire or at the slaughterhouse seems pretty reasonable.
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Self-preservation is the first law of nature.
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If you write genre fiction, you follow the rules, and you have to follow them because readers expect that.
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You don't want to take the world over with a whole hamper full of dirty clothes. That's the main thing people overlook. And take a shower, take a bath every day.
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I'm not the type of actor who is trying to do a whole bunch of different stuff, you know what I mean?
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If you don't improve the lives of the poor, it's not charity.
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There's a lot of interviews now where nobody seems to talk about anything. Like it's illegal. But it can be fun if you stay involved. Like most conversations.
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Time is the devourer of all things.
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I don't know many people, if any, who have had some straight line toward success. I mean, they start here, they work hard, they've got what it takes, and they just go straight to the top over some number of years. Most people get a little failure.
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A war still rages over the legacy of the 1960s.
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Happiness is a mysterious concept. It seems to work best as futurity: at that point I will be happy, et cetera. I feel like I experience small pieces of joy day to day.
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I love going to the cinema. Whenever I get time off, that's where I go.
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Relationships are people's No. 1 priorities. They want to have good relationships, and a lot of times they don't.
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Spending time with Mexican-born writer and director Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu, you'd never guess that he's the filmmaker behind a series of movies known as the 'Death Trilogy.' The way he dotes on his children and talks about his wife makes it clear that he has a crackling passion for life.
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Any musician - I would say 99% of musicians - needs some help along the way. Most people, even if they're self-produced, have someone else mix it, or they'll have someone else master the record. Inevitably, it's like somebody else's personality being put into your art.
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My parents weren't extremely successful financially, but they were happy people. They gave me confidence.
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In Sweden, there's a lot of talk of gender equality. That discussion isn't as prevalent in the U.S. I feel that successful American women are tougher than Swedish women - they create their space.
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The fascination to go into space has existed for hundreds of years. But as we do things and they're successful, people get bored.
