Gene Cernan Quotes
Chemical propulsion is obsolete to go anywhere other than the moon. Three days - that's acceptable. But for Mars, we need propulsion technologies to get us there in, say, 60 days - then spend whatever length of time we want to spend and return when we want to come home.
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Many people believe the whole catastrophe is the oil we spill, but that gets diluted and eventually disarmed over time. In fact, the oil we don't spill, the oil we collect, refine and use, produces CO2 and other gases that don't get diluted.
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I get offers all the time from film makers, but they are unknown quantities. I don't go there and do experiments.
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You get kind of bored being in catalogues all the time.
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My father in the film - which we probably haven't seen in previous movies, and in British Asian movies you could probably count on one hand - he says exactly why, actually why he's frightened for his daughter. He came to this country, England, and had a bit of a crappy time.
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I wonder if there'll ever be a time where you're not judged by your appearance. It seems that wherever you've got to, your appearance is always discussed. It's never said about men. We talk about a man's charisma, not his looks.
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If the many allegations made to this date are true, then the burglars who broke into the headquarters of the Democratic National Committee at the Watergate were, in effect, breaking into the home of every citizen.
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I had to let my ego go a long time ago.
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I love downtown L.A .and I relish any opportunity to spend time there.
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If you look at the history of large financial institutions, most of them have succeeded because of a deep presence in their home market.
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The first time you win, nobody picks you; the last time you win, nobody picks you. You've just got to pick yourself.
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When people talk about the impact of mobile dating, everyone focuses on real-time meeting - this idea that my pocket will vibrate every time a hot girl walks by. That's important. But it's not transformative.
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I'll be in a series for three or four episodes, but then I'll be off the series, and downtime, as an actor, is a little more than most people understand. Most of the time you're just sitting around taking coffee with friends.
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As an actor, I'm familiar with having bursts of energy, where you're giving things a try, and then you have down time.
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What usually happens in the educational process is that the faculties are dulled, overloaded, stuffed and paralyzed so that by the time most people are mature they have lost their innate capabilities.
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I live in Canada in the summer and some time in the fall.
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I first came on the scene during the Johnson years and that crowd was out all the time enjoying themselves. Nixon wasn't particularly social but a lot of the people in his administration were.
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Tonight I'm going to shower and then just walk for about four hours and look at the moon.
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It took me a long time not to judge myself through someone else's eyes.
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You can be a man who loves a woman but love someone the way a gay man loves another man or a woman loves a woman.
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Well, probably I was fed up with concrete poetry. There was a lot of bad concrete poetry and besides, it was confused with visual poetry which was completely different.
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I was never good at painting. The great turning point came when I had a block of wood and I carved a shape into the wood and put a small piece of timber into that space - like a negative - and so it made an endless column, only inward.
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People who work 44 hours per week make 50 percent more than people who work 34 hours a week.
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In my younger days, I loved to run. Although it may be hard for you to believe it, I did. And I did win a few races.
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Chemical propulsion is obsolete to go anywhere other than the moon. Three days - that's acceptable. But for Mars, we need propulsion technologies to get us there in, say, 60 days - then spend whatever length of time we want to spend and return when we want to come home.
