Jim Lovell Quotes
I was a naval officer and aviator. I tested airplanes and got selected to be an astronaut later on.
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As you probably know, I've written a lot about the presidency, so it's obviously exciting when you get to interview a president and write about it.
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I used to be obsessed with race. I'm more obsessed with class now.
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We Americans, who invented traffic, are always being startled by the forms into which it has evolved around the world.
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I received a D.Sc. from the University of London in 1992.
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The '$O$' phase, it was like, 'Save Our Souls': we didn't know how we were going to get out of our situation... It was our last chance just to go all out. 'Ten$ion' was another phase, to maintain the tension we had, just to pretend nothing had happened and stay in that same furious, hungry zone.
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The world is mud-luscious and puddle-wonderful.
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We have to tokenize in order to normalize.
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I can sometimes feel like I'm an aggressive man inside. I'm not going to show that on social media.
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I believe that if you have revolutionary potential, you must make the world a better place and use it.
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Success is so bad for everybody, period. Especially a certain kind of success, when people practically give up their identity. They forget who they are, how they are.
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In all the time that people have known me, has anyone ever heard me talk about the importance of rushing records or finishing with the most touchdowns? So if that's never been important to me, then why would that be a motivation to keep playing?
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In a way, 'Like Crazy' keys into our generation, this idea of now we can still be in communication. Where do the boundaries of relationships end?
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The area we define as what Quora's good at is long-form text that's useful over time, and where you care about who wrote the text. Not that you need to be friends with them, just that they're someone trustworthy.
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You must know what you are capable of.
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'Villain' is such a harsh word.
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What friends or kindred can be so close and intimate as the powers of our soul, which, whether we will or no, must ever bear us company?
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There are a lot of other things in this world that can and will bring me joy. Acting is one of them.
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As a kid, I loved 'Godot' because of the poetry and the humor and the strangeness, but then as you get older, it's much more resonant.
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I have been robbed of three million dollars all told. Everyone today is playing my stuff and I don't even get credit. Kansas City style, Chicago style, New Orleans style hell, they're all Jelly Roll style.
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My family is pretty funny. My mother is British, so she's got a very dry sense of humor. That's where I got that from.
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My father was so very afraid. I felt it in the sting of his black leather belt, which he applied with more anxiety than anger, my father who beat me as if someone might steal me away, because that was exactly what was happening all around us.
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I am actually the most unglamorous person on the planet. I am the most unfinished, unpolished person ever.
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A wild longing for strong emotions and sensations seethes in me, a rage against this toneless, flat, normal and sterile life. I have a mad impulse to smash something, a warehouse perhaps, or a cathedral, or myself, to committ outrages.
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I was a naval officer and aviator. I tested airplanes and got selected to be an astronaut later on.
