Jim Lovell Quotes
In space-flight terms, six landings on the moon back in the Sixties and Seventies doesn't mean much.
Quotes to Explore
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The art of pictorial creation is so complicated - it is so astronomical in its possibilities of relation and combination that it would take an act of super-human concentration to explain the final realization.
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I believed I was invincible.
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As soon as one project is finished I like to go straight on to something else.
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I'm not running for state Senate because I wanted to become a politician. I'm running because I wanted to serve.
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I'm from New York, so I'm not a big driver.
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Historically, the Balkans have been an incubator of war.
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Hedge funds are not especially liquid. Many are 'gated' - meaning there are only small windows when you can withdraw your money. They typically have a high minimum investment and often require investors keep their money in the fund for at least one year.
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Children are apt to live up to what you believe of them.
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When the news is good, the BBC view is: 'Get the government out of the picture quickly, don't allow them to say anything about it.' When the news is bad: 'Let's all dump on the government.'
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Doctrines provide an architecture for both Republican and Democrat presidents to carry out policies.
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I don't think any media has to feel obliged to show the cover of 'Charlie Hebdo.'
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Religion is induced insanity.
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Nixon did have a secret plan, and I knew that it involved making threats of nuclear war to North Vietnam.
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I made a commitment to myself; that I wanted to be an actress, and I wanted to do films that make a difference. It has to move people.
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I think there's a couple of things going on. One is that Trump's relationship with his base is not the traditional relationship of a politician and the people who elected him, and the constituency, which is a relationship of some accountability, right? The idea is that the politicians are working for the people. They're public servants.
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I am definitely a person of color.
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During the crusades all were religious mad, and now all are mad for want of it.
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I hope to encourage more children to discover and love reading, but I want to focus particularly on the appreciation of picture books…. Picture books are for everybody at any age, not books to be left behind as we grow older. The best ones leave a tantalising gap between the pictures and the words, a gap that is filled by the reader's imagination, adding so much to the excitement of reading a book.
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I've been a protected child, but I moved out for further studies when I was 16, and I have travelled quite a bit by myself.
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A lot can change between planning something and actually doing it. But maybe all that really matters is that anything is different at all.
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As a kid I read Jules Verne, H. G. Wells, and a few others. As an adult have admired Leonardo da Vinci's drawings and notebooks.
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I just like working with smart people.
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In space-flight terms, six landings on the moon back in the Sixties and Seventies doesn't mean much.
