Buzz Aldrin Quotes

I was given permission to serve myself Communion, with wine and a wafer, on the surface on the Moon. But I was advised not to say anything about it at the time. Someone had strongly objected to the Apollo 8 crew reading from the Bible. We didn't want to get into any further trouble with the religious critics.

Buzz Aldrin

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• The Enlightenment view of mankind is a complete myth. It leads us into thinking we're sane and rational creatures most of the time, and we're not.

  

  J. G. Ballard
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• Middle school was probably my hardest time. I was trying to fit in for so long, until about junior year of high school when I realized that trying to fit into this one image of perfection was never going to make me happy.

  

  Maiara Walsh
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• I just see religious freedom, as a category, as just being a black hole.

  

  Gary Johnson
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• Doing films in Latin America is like an act of faith. I mean, you really have to believe in what you're doing because if not, you feel like it's a waste of time because you might as well be doing something that at least pays you the rent.

  

  Gael Garcia Bernal
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• Well, one always has an instinct to be a painter, and I've done quite a lot of painting at one time or another, though not with any public success.

  

  Quentin Blake
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• I lost the ball in the moon.

  

  Hank Sauer
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• For a long time, I was a career woman and that was it.

  

  Laura Schlessinger
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• I always say that the real success of Wine Library wasn't due to the videos I posted, but to the hours I spent talking to people online afterward, making connections and building relationships.

  

  Gary Vaynerchuk
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• Time has a way of demonstrating that the most stubborn are the most intelligent.

  

  Yevgeny Yevtushenko
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• I'm a big fan of a great glass of red wine and a delicious bowl of pasta made from scratch.

  

  Zoe McLellan
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• This has been a trend for a long time; the days of lifetime employment are long since over.

  

  Marc Andreesen
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• 'The Driver' wasn't commercially successful at the time, but when I was a teenager, I had no knowledge of that.

  

  Edgar Wright
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• Very few minds are strictly normal, and all religious fanatics are marked with abnormalities of various sorts.

  

  H. P. Lovecraft
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• I'm an internet junkie. There, I said it. That's the first step, right? I also have a thing for making lists. Oh man, nothing beats turning to a fresh, clean page in a notebook, taking out a nice pen, and starting a list. There's so much potential there. So much to do, so little time! So hey, why not spend some of that time making a list.

  

  Adam Christopher
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• The only time I've ever really felt envy is when I've watched people make music, which made my time living in the now-legendary Jazz Loft at 821 Sixth Avenue in New York a constant source of agony and ecstasy!

  

  Harold Feinstein
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• I think The Doors are one of the classic groups, and I think we're all tempted to feel like the time in which we grew up was somehow special, but I really do believe that there were two golden eras in music: The Forties and Fifties of big band, jazz and swing, and the Sixties and Seventies of rock. To me, they're really unparalleled.

  

  Edgar Winter
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• For a long time, I've had a recurring dream - I dream I don't have to write any more, that I'm free. I'm not free, alas; I'm still clearing the same terrain, with the impression that it's never finished.

  

  Patrick Modiano
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• The world is changing and the physical barriers are down now. It's time for the emotional barriers to go down. And what better place to start than school?

  

  Laura San Giacomo
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• It is a great tragedy that science, this wonderful process for finding out what is true, has ceded the spiritual uplift of its central revelations: the vastness of the universe, the immensity of time, the relatedness of all life, and life’s preciousness on our tiny planet.

  

  Ann Druyan
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• Today begins a new saga in my life which I expect to strengthen me and allow me time for reflection... I plan to write music while in prison, read and pray regularly and will come out a stronger, more confident woman.

  

  Lil' Kim
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• You have to get knocked down to realize how people really feel about you. I've realized that more than ever lately. The other day, I was on my way to the car. It was hailing, the streets were slippery and I was having a tough time of it. I came to a corner and started to slip. But before I could fall, four people jumped out of nowhere to help me. When I thanked them, they all said they knew about my illness and had been keeping an eye on me.

  

  Lou Gehrig
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• I am private because I'm still figuring things out. I'm young! I'm making it up as I go!

  

  Allison Williams
  • Up

• I wish I'd known early what I had to learn late.

  

  Richie Ashburn
  • Known
  • Late

• I was given permission to serve myself Communion, with wine and a wafer, on the surface on the Moon. But I was advised not to say anything about it at the time. Someone had strongly objected to the Apollo 8 crew reading from the Bible. We didn't want to get into any further trouble with the religious critics.

  

  Buzz Aldrin
  • Time
  • Reading
  • Religious