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.
Quotes to Explore
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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.
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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.
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I just see religious freedom, as a category, as just being a black hole.
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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.
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I'm just a person who forgives and forgets. I have a hard time holding grudges.
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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.
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I lost the ball in the moon.
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I felt like an outsider. The only time you get to really know guys is on the ice, and I couldn't be there.
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For a long time, I was a career woman and that was it.
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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.
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Time has a way of demonstrating that the most stubborn are the most intelligent.
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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.
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This has been a trend for a long time; the days of lifetime employment are long since over.
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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.
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Very few minds are strictly normal, and all religious fanatics are marked with abnormalities of various sorts.
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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.
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I don't work with Sia every day; it depends what we do, whether we do performances or music videos, so the schedule is weird, but when we're off, we always try to see each other in between. We just hang out; we went to brunch one time, but for the most part I go to her house, and we eat and watch TV.
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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!
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I don't wanna abandon my identity as LL Cool J, but at the same time, I had to figure out how to let people know that I'm really serious about making these movies.
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It's a good thing to turn your mind upside down now and then, like an hour-glass, to let the particles run the other way.
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I'm not the average artist.
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You cannot escape the fact that women mould your first five years, whether you like it or not. And I can't say I do like it very much.
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That I was not dueling with the king, but trying to communicate with him, was itself an incommunicable fact.
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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.
