Jim Lovell Quotes
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Life has been kind to me. I am happy with the love and appreciation that I have been getting throughout my career. I feel blessed.
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The bargain that yields mutual satisfaction is the only one that is apt to be repeated.
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I'm very happy in my life, but I do feel that music has a power to transport you to places or to beautiful moments in your past.
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Bureaucracy kills people's ability to try new ideas.
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Statistics is the grammar of science.
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I really like Los Angeles - I had a good life out there. But the reason I choose to live in New York is because when I'm between engagements, as they say, something creative always comes up for me, like 'Julian Po,' or helping teach at NYU, or helping stage a show at Juilliard.
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I loved when my dad was home. He liked to sit in the living room and watch boxing and baseball on TV. Or he'd be tinkering around or listening to records by his musician buddies - George Shearing, Oscar Peterson and the Jackie Gleason Orchestra.
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I've never been a huge sweets eater, and I've always loved a Mediterranean diet. We eat a lot of dark leafy greens, and a couple meals each week are meat-free. We enjoy eating a balanced diet.
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The names of common flowers change from decade to decade, so I spent a lot of time with old outdated dictionaries, with awful flower names like 'mouse-eared chickweed.'
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I wish I could play the World Cup; that's one of my dreams.
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My life is better with every year of living it.
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The only times an Afro-American who was assaulted got away has been when he had a gun and used it in self-defense.
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Art is something special because it can come up with a way of approaching the truth that is a little to the side.
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Involvement in Afghanistan, I thought, was totally warranted. We were attacked, we attacked back, but after six months of being in Afghanistan, I thought we had pretty well effectively wiped out al Qaeda.
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If I wasn't Eddie Albert's son, I'd be someone else's. It gave me a chance to do a lot of traveling, but mostly I'm glad I'm his son because he's such a good man.
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I really believe in, 'Move on, live and let live, forgive and forget.'
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I don't have to jump up and smile just because TV wants me to.
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We have grown accustomed to the wonders of clean water, indoor plumbing, laser surgery, genetic engineering, artificial joints, replacement body parts, and the much longer lives that accompany them. Yet we should remember that the vast majority of humans ever born died before the age of 10 from an infectious disease.
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By the time I turned fifteen, Communism had become my religion.
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Acting, believe it or not, can get very self-involved! I feel fortunate to have been able to work on things with people who have a very specific point of view and perspective, and who feel like they're doing something very active.
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A stockbroker urged me to buy a stock that would triple its value every year. I told him, 'At my age, I don't even buy green bananas.'
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If not you, then who? If not now, then when?
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I do not say anything from jealousy.
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I take the NASA physical every year.
