Jim Lovell Quotes
I was only a hero by default. The flights were few and far between. There weren't that many astronauts. The moon flights were so interesting and exciting.
Quotes to Explore
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There is no such thing as a perfect mother.
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Los Angeles is peopled by waiters and carpenters and drivers who are there to be actors.
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Evolutionary psychology tells us that men, especially powerful men, feel invincible and entitled to spread their seed, and that women can't resist the scent of masculine power. Women, by contrast, are said to be more altruistic and collaborative, seeking power so that they can share it with others.
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Writing is literally transformative. When we read, we are changed. When we write, we are changed. It's neurological. To me, this is a kind of magic.
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When you argue with your inferiors, you convince them of only one thing: they are as clever as you.
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I root for anyone who's got kids and if they want to make it work.
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Life is not long, and too much of it must not pass in idle deliberation how it shall be spent.
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I remember, when I was younger, it was such a big fantasy for me. Now that I actually have a career and have made an album, it's really surreal.
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I don't have ugly ducklings turning into swans in my stories. I have ugly ducklings turn into confident ducks.
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The United States is a strong and ardent ally of Israel. The fact of the matter is that friends can disagree. I think what's important is that world leaders are able to sit down with one another, have frank conversations and move forward.
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I was a weird but definite kid, and there were essentially no gender roles for me to fit into.
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I follow a simple formula when I compose. I ask myself, 'What would the audience want to hear?' and 'Why would they buy my CDs?' And the process of answering these questions through music follows. Sometimes, it works. Sometimes, it backfires.
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When I exercise, I need to connect to myself and see how I'm feeling at the moment because my mood is constantly changing.
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There is increasing social concern about our use of nonhumans for experiments, food, clothing and entertainment. This concern about animals reflects both our own moral development as a civilization and our recognition that the differences between humans and animals are, for the most part, differences of degree and not of kind.
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I reached a point where I'd watched enough directors do the job that I felt I understood it. And it's not that I'm a slow learner and it took me this long; I also was enjoying writing, and I still enjoy writing - I get tremendous satisfaction out of the writing end of it.
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If you had a really good - battery, it wouldn't matter that the sun goes down at night and the wind stops blowing sometimes. But at the moment, battery technology is nowhere near good enough to use at utility scale.
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We don't want to be our own niche. We're filmmakers like everybody. How many years in a row are we going to talk about the fact that we make films and we are women? Enough already.
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Being an athlete helps me get those grandiose emotions of pleasure and pain that are involved in sports.
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Essentially, there's no scientific evidence whatsoever that could ever be presented to me that would wipe out my fundamental spiritual beliefs.
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I read for the sensation of becoming another person; I write for the same sensation.
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I wanted to be a ballet teacher.
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There was a time when young people respected learning and literature and now they don't.
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I was only a hero by default. The flights were few and far between. There weren't that many astronauts. The moon flights were so interesting and exciting.
