Jim Lovell Quotes
We got to the moon on Christmas Eve 1968, at the end of a poor year for this country. We had Vietnam. We had civil unrest. We had the assassinations of Robert Kennedy and Martin Luther King. But we went around the moon and saw the far side for the first time. A script writer couldn't have done a better job of raising people's hope.
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The search for knowledge is a long and difficult task.
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I don't think at Pixar we'd ever make something that was too scary for general audiences.
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I gave up years ago on the concept that you could actually have balance in your life, I think it's a phantom chase.
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I'm not a Man U fan at all, but I can't get enough of Rooney. What a joy to watch!
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First, people don't read novels off screens, and they don't have a tendency to shell out real money for books when they don't retain anything physically for their money.
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My mom was Jewish, so some would call me Jewish.
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Members of great teams confront each other when they see something that isn't serving the team.
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If you don't improve the lives of the poor, it's not charity.
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When men I have dated over the years whined about, 'Oh, you make no time for me' - see ya! I just dumped them. I don't need that pressure in my life.
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A religion that takes no account of practical affairs and does not help to solve them is no religion.
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I'm obsessive. That's the word for me. I obsess – perhaps to the point where it's moderately dysfunctional. I tend to put a book through about 100 revisions. If anything, that's an understatement. If there's another author out there who does this sort of revision, I would really like to meet him. Maybe we could form some sort of support group.
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People review my comic books. People review every article I write - 'The Atlantic' even publishes them. A great deal of the critique of 'Between the World and Me' was from a feminist perspective. bell hooks pushed back, among others. Some of that has value. Some of it does not. I try my best to separate the wheat from the chaff.
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It seems that no two people came to this specialized area of work via the exact same route.
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What I like about music is the songs you can remember the lines of in a single second.
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Most people don't really understand what it takes to get a film made, and the struggles .I think anyone who makes a film goes through their own set of struggles.
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Everyone takes a bad selfie - the first thing is to know that.
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I felt like if I wasn't around, maybe my shot would be gone.
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A good discourse is that from which nothing can be retrenched without cutting into the quick.
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The way to build a complex system that works is to build it from very simple systems that work.
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Nobody talks more of free enterprise and competition and of the best man winning than the man who inherited his father's store or farm.
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The study titled 'Impact of Immigration on Wages, by Education Level, 1994-2007' found that increased immigration had an effect of lowering wages for earlier immigrants by an average of 4.6 percent. Running counter to popular perception is the finding that for native-born Americans, wages actually increased by 0.6 percent.
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As an author, you think you know where the good parts and the bad parts are. And then you read to a group of children, and you learn when you're boring them, and you hurry through those sections to get to the parts where they're interested again. You start to get a sense of your story's rhythm and flow.
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I am opposed to a multicultural France. I think that those who have a different culture and who arrive in France have to submit themselves to French culture.
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We got to the moon on Christmas Eve 1968, at the end of a poor year for this country. We had Vietnam. We had civil unrest. We had the assassinations of Robert Kennedy and Martin Luther King. But we went around the moon and saw the far side for the first time. A script writer couldn't have done a better job of raising people's hope.
