Jim Lovell Quotes
In space-flight terms, six landings on the moon back in the Sixties and Seventies doesn't mean much.
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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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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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The U.S. government engages with many countries around the world in official dialogues on human rights.
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The hardest song to write is a protest song, a topical song with meaning.
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My teachers said, 'Always keep a Beethoven sonata under your fingers.' I always have. I still play chamber music, and I always play classical.
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I still get laughed at but it doesn't bother me, I'm just so glad to hear laughter around me.
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The rhythm of relations of color and size makes the absolute appear in the relativity of time and space.
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That was in 1994, July, 1994, and I can remember that like it was yesterday too because it was the culmination of a childhood dream to finally be laying on the launch pad inside a space shuttle and getting ready to be launched into space. The impression of going into a space shuttle is that it looks like a brand new simulator. We spend so many hours inside a simulator that everything is very familiar. Every switch, the seats, the way things work, but the vehicle, the actual spacecraft looks brand new because it hasn't been used nearly as much as the simulators.
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In space-flight terms, six landings on the moon back in the Sixties and Seventies doesn't mean much.
