John Glenn Quotes
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Re-examining our reasoning is not something that has come naturally to American statesmen.
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Many people thought I would never succeed, because I am so Russian. So Russian, hundred percent.
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The characters are always the focal point of a book for me, whether I'm writing or reading. I may enjoy a book that has an intriguing mystery or a good plot, but to become one of my real favorites, it has to have great characters.
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The cast of 'Lemonade Mouth' was picked so perfectly. A lot of people see us as a band on camera, but not a lot of people know that Lemonade Mouth was a band off-camera, too.
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I have seen the Gore documentary 'An Inconvenient Truth,' just released in the States, and admired the acutely revolutionary delivery of the slideshow assisted talk he has now been giving for some 16 years.
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'Pong' is simply a knockoff of the Odyssey Ping-Pong game.
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You haven't partied until you've partied at dawn in complete silence with Buddhist monks.
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There were centuries when civilization had no theater.
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I lift heavy weights and sprint, but I am so bad at it that I develop severe injuries.
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Work is so much fun that it doesn't really seem like downtime when I'm not. But cooking, spending time with my family, friends and dog are what I'm usually doing when I'm not working on something.
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I remember back in the early '70s, when I had a disastrous Grand Prix, my wife, Lynn, said to me, 'Don't worry, you're going to be a late boomer.' That's what she said to me, and I've always held that thought.
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Designers have told me that their collections are so me, but I don't always recognise it because if you ask me what my style is, I'm really not that sure.
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There's something about some of my favorite musicals that they put me in a sort of heightened state where I feel like I'm floating out of the theater rather than walking out.
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This solution may not appeal to our human pride, but the problem is that our human pride in itself is sinful.
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No Afghans, as far as we know, have been involved in terrorist acts against our country. We shouldn't be swatting at hornets' nests we know nothing about.
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It wouldn't bother me at all not to play on my own album.
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No, but there are people I grew up with from the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains that would give any person on 'Justified' a run for their money in the scary department.
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Doors opened for me and I ran for it.
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Daddy was fun-loving and lighthearted - he lived life to the fullest and was not scared to take a risk.
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I love American ski resorts because they're open to everyone, are not incredibly expensive. They're not snobby and you can have fun all day long on the most excellent mountains.
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As with the butterfly, adversity is necessary to build character in people.
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All I can do is turn a phrase until it catches the light. There was a time when I got hot under the collar if the critics said I had nothing new to say. Now I realise that they had a point. My field is the self-evident. Everything I say is obvious, although I like to think that some of the obvious things I have said were not so obvious until I said them.
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It's so important for kids to get involved with sports in general at a young age.
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I say let's not gamble with American jobs and America's future.
