John Glenn Quotes
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'm not a video brat. I don't derive all my inspiration through movies. I get it from a lot of other places, too.
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The doors between the old man today and the child are still open, wide open. I can stroll through my grandmother's house and know exactly where the pictures are, the furniture was, how it looked, the voice, the smells. I can move from my bed at night today to my childhood in less than a second.
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I'm not likely to forget where I've been and what I've done and learned. I think it's just as important to play new instruments as to play new pieces. The old ones are getting scarcer and the new ones more and more wonderful.
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The way I was raised, family was always the most important. When I had our first daughter, Natasha, I knew that's what I wanted to do.
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I'm not being secretive about anything. I just actually don't have opinions about society.
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The running joke about the Premio Cervantes, the most coveted literary prize in the Spanish-speaking world, which was established by Spain's Ministry of Culture in 1976, is that Cervantes himself wouldn't have received it. This is because he was, in his heart, the most anti-Spanish of Spanish writers.
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I was in graduate school. I had a birth control accident and went to get the morning after pill.
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Civilization is merely an advance in taste: accepting, all the time, nicer things, and rejecting nasty ones.
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Gov. Perry has led the way in Texas on creating an environment for job growth.
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I can give you a six-word formula for success: Think things through - then follow through.
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Growing up, all I did was work and vacation, but I loved it, no one pushed me into anything. The thing was I developed no special skills. I don't have any resentment because I am a performer and I've always felt that, but it did take its toll socially.
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Becoming a vampire means completely changing your identity.
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When men are romantically interested in you, it's really simple. Just ignore everything they say and only pay attention to what they do.
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Going to Freedom's Watch was a job opportunity that presented itself, so I jumped at it.
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Everything that has happened to me has been amazing and surprising.
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I was actually pretty shy in school. My defense mechanism was to be the class clown. I remember getting into a lot of trouble for being disruptive, and I was brought in front of the headteacher, who said: 'What's going to happen to you; what are you going to do when you grow up?' and I said: 'Well, I'm obviously going to be a comedian.'
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The biggest part of my job now is to quickly develop successors, and around the world I am working to develop new business leaders in the company.
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Possessions. The very word is potent - suggestive as it is of ownership both material and erotic. To possess. Possession. Possessed.
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Education must be the only sector that hasn't already been completely revolutionized by technology.
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I'm pretty serious about what I do.
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If you don't have your family behind you, supporting you and giving you advice when you need it, things can get very difficult.
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An excellent job with a dubious undertaking, which is like saying it would be great if it wasn't awful.
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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.
