John Glenn Quotes
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.
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I don't like to say anything good. I feel like I'll jinx myself.
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Is the button white or orange or green or yellow? Does it say 'sell', or 'sell now', or 'on sale' or 'for sale'? You test, you test, you test and most of the ideas you try fail and so I would argue I failed my way to success.
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I grew up as a country boy.
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I like to think I'm quite brave. I stand up for myself.
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When you actually fall in love, no one sees that other person the way that you do.
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It's kind of amazing that people will travel because of a book. I admire that.
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Businesses fail when they over-invest in what is at the expense of what could be.
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I don't have a radio or TV going all the time. It's very important to have awareness, to know when you tense up and then to stop that.
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I will tell you with 100 percent confidence, Jon Jones is not deep in my head. The fact he actually thinks that, it makes me smile every day.
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Life isn't about quantity, it's about quality.
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I'm ambitious, I want to play in the Champions League, and that's the aim with Tottenham - to start qualifying for the Champions League on a consistent basis.
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When people refer to 'Back in the Day,' it was a Wednesday. Just a little fun fact for you.
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It's always cool to go to different places and see what's really out there in the world.
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Lets be clear, Dolly Parton is a rapper. Somewhere before all the country, I don't know what happens up there in the mountains when you're growing up, but she has been spitting rhymes for a very long time - 50 years I'd say.
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Doing collections, doing fashion is like a non-stop dialogue.
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The first time you meet someone, the conversation is sort of on life support. You're just trying to live another moment in the life of the conversation.
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If tomorrow the Chinese decide not to supply the world with raw materials, the pharma industry would collapse.
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I keep setting the bar higher for myself in terms of what I'm trying to accomplish.
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I believe in community policing.
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So many organizations have a mentoring arm, but they don't really do it. Their idea of mentoring a kid is giving them general advice. But what they need to do is read with children.
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The general proposition is that the resources that will be utilized are the ones that contribute most to the overall efficiency of the production system. The third parameter has to do with our commercial world, our search for profits.
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The man who buried Malcolm X - my Muslim imam, priest - he, after I got beat up by police... came to me, and he said, 'You don't need this American name.' And I was susceptible to it at the time because, God knows, I had just gotten whipped near to death. So he gave me an Arab name; he gave me the name Amir Barakat.
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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.
