John Glenn Quotes
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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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I've seen John Wayne's 'True Grit' about 10 times.
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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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The political graveyards are full of people who don't respond.
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I've never let people push me around in politics.
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You can't relive your life.
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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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The time will come when we permit more people in space.
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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 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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I'm not interested in my legacy. I made up a word: 'live-acy.' I'm more interested in living.
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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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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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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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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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If people like Edison had waited to make every - or Ben Franklin or some of those people had waited to solve every problem on Earth before they did their research or before they were curious about doing something new, we'd never have made a lot of the progress we have.
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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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I pray every day and think everybody should.
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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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This is a day we have managed to avoid for a quarter of a century.