Buzz Aldrin Quotes
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And although I've been very fortunate in the film work that's come my way, I need to get back to the stage. If I'm away for a maximum of two years, I feel something's wrong.
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I don't think what I look like is relevant.
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Cancer is really a DNA disease... We have these certain genes that prevent our cells from growing out of control at the expense of the body. And it's a pretty good, robust system. But if a couple of these genes fail, then that's when cancer starts, and cells start growing out of control.
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They say I am a regulator and I think it is just an effort not to comply with the decree. I do not do anything except what the decree requires me to do.
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I was interned in Auschwitz for one year. I didn't bring back anything, except for a few jokes, and that filled me with shame. Then again, I didn't know what to do with this fresh experience. For this experience was no literary awakening, no occasion for professional or artistic introspection.
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I am now in a position to choose roles. I did not have so many offers before 'Queen,' but now things have changed a lot.
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There is no problem that is not improved by effort, and no effort that is too paltry to be worth undertaking.
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One of the things jazz has always excelled at is translating the reality of the times through its musical prism.
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Growing up my mother played Sarah Vaughan and Nat Cole in the house regularly.
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Cross-cultural marriage is difficult, especially when one person has to live in another country. But I thought there was a very good chance of it working because people grow together if they have a common passion.
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I'd rather be hated for who I am than loved who I am not. Even if you're not accepted, at least you are still yourself.
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A liberal to me is one who - and it suits some of the dictionary definitions - is unbeholden to any specific belief or party or group or person, but makes up his or her mind on the basis of the facts and the presentation of those facts at the time. That defines what I am.
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Beauty is the promise of happiness.
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If history and science have taught us anything, it is that passion and desire are not the same as truth.
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I think Trump is a very interesting candidate in this sense: I think he has cross-party appeal.
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Even though I have lived in the States since I was 18, in my head I am still very British, and I do have this romance for towns in Middle America that nobody gets to see.
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Things happen for a reason. I'm happy, but not I'm not satisfied with the things I'm doing.
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When you take a shower in space, you have to press the water onto your body to clean yourself, and then you gotta vacuum it off.
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I want my mom on 'Scream Queens'. She could play someone who is convinced she's Princess Leila. That could be her disease, and then as a plot twist, we could find out that she actually is Princess Leila.
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At the current $5.15 an hour, the federal minimum wage has become a poverty wage. A full-time worker with one child lives below the official poverty line.
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The companies that won't do well will be the me-too companies: the fifth, sixth, seventh version of Twitter, etc.
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A lot of my albums that I've done, a lot of the songs have been the first take. It's before you mess with it too much - you can take away all the spontaneity and the emotion of something by trying to make it sound perfect.
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I used to fight the pain, but recently this became clear to me: pain is not my enemy; it is my call to greatness. But when dealing with the Iron, one must be careful to interpret the pain correctly. Most injuries involving the Iron come from ego. I once spent a few weeks lifting weight that my body wasn’t ready for and spent a few months not picking up anything heavier than a fork. Try to lift what you’re not prepared to and the Iron will teach you a little lesson in restraint and self-control.
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American greatness was elevated significantly after Sputnik.
