John Glenn Quotes
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The most important thing we can do is inspire young minds and to advance the kind of science, math and technology education that will help youngsters take us to the next phase of space travel.
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The space station is the most unique laboratory we've ever built. The reason we have it is to do research on materials, people, medical matters, pharmaceuticals - the possibilities are nearly endless.
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You can't relive your life.
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I think even in bad times it's good to keep some money going into research. And that's the purpose of the whole space program. It's not just exploration and going to see how far we can go out into space and keep people alive and bring them back, although exploration certainly has its place.
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I've never let people push me around in politics.
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I say let's not gamble with American jobs and America's future.
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I didn't see Saddam Hussein as being quite the danger that some other people did.
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The time will come when we permit more people in space.
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I've seen John Wayne's 'True Grit' about 10 times.
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Old folks have dreams and ambitions too, like everybody else. Don't sit on a couch someplace.
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The political graveyards are full of people who don't respond.
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Quite often, while I'm getting up in the morning, I think my warranty is running out on these body parts because it's not working quite the way it used to.
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I liked flying, when I got into it, loved it. And I found I was very good at it. I'm not modest about the fact that I was a good pilot.
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This is a day we have managed to avoid for a quarter of a century.
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Probably, had World War II not come along and intervened, I would have tried to be a doctor. My son's a doctor, and I still take some medical journals to this day.
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Could this have just happened? . . . I can’t believe that ... Some Power put all this into orbit and keeps it there.
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I pray every day and think everybody should.
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I spent 23 years in the military. I think I'm in a good position to make those judgments on what is necessary in the military and what is not necessary, without buying a lot of things that would not really add to our security.
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An end of something means the beginning of something else, and I don't think that something else is going to be the death of the manned space program.
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When the new becomes commonplace, people become accustomed to it. That's a tribute to our sense of adventure.
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Those old westerns are the movies I grew up with on Saturday afternoons at the theater.
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As far as entertainment, 'The Right Stuff' is a good movie. As far as a documentary of the early space days, which they purported it to be, it is not at all.
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I'm not interested in my legacy. I made up a word: 'live-acy.' I'm more interested in living.
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In orbit, you're keyed up and aware of everything going on, every little noise, anything that may have special meaning because of where you are.