Gene Cernan Quotes

I think America has a responsibility to maintain its leadership in technology and its moral leadership in the world, to explore, to seek knowledge.

Gene Cernan

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• Over the years, I have been asked to play these sort of scary frenetic characters that express their emotions physically.

  

  Gary Oldman
  • Play
  • Scary
  • Emotions

• It's tough to be 68 and dating. I've given it up now.

  

  Ian McLagan Small Faces
  • Up
  • Now
  • Tough

• I always had dreams as a kid. I definitely sat at home and watched the Oscars every year and got emotional every year at everyone's speeches.

  

  Yvonne Strahovski
  • Home
  • Emotional
  • Dreams

• I was the first one in my family to go away to college. I came from a small town where there was no guidance in the high school at all. It was a mill town, and I never knew anyone who made their living from the arts. When you did go away to college, you went away to be something - an engineer, or a teacher, or a chemist.

  

  E. L. Konigsburg
  • Family
  • School
  • High

• Mind is everything. Muscle - pieces of rubber. All that I am, I am because of my mind.

  

  Paavo Nurmi
  • Mind
  • Being
  • Muscle

• My priority is to take care of my daughter and my family.

  

  Malik Jackson
  • Family
  • Care
  • Daughter

• We ended up realizing that's not an economical way to create creatures, putting people in green leotards and figuring it out later. You can maybe do that if you're making 'Avatar,' but we need to know what the creatures look like before we turn on the camera.

  

  D. B. Weiss
  • People
  • Up
  • Green

• Actually, I bought one share of Warren Buffett's stock, probably 35 years ago, in order to read his letters.

  

  Sam Wyly
  • Years
  • Order
  • Stock

• When I was auditioning for 'True Grit,' I was on the Paramount lot. I was wearing clothes from the 1800s that were big and uncomfortable.

  

  Hailee Steinfeld
  • True
  • Clothes
  • Uncomfortable

• A theory can be proved by experiment; but no path leads from experiment to the birth of a theory.

  

  Manfred Eigen
  • Path
  • Birth
  • Theory

• Life is so impermanent that it's not about somebody else or things around me, it's about knowing you are completely alone in this world and being content inside.

  

  K. D. Lang
  • Life
  • World
  • Alone

• Take heed, then, often to come together to give thanks to God, and show forth His praise. For when you assemble frequently in the same place, the powers of Satan are destroyed, and the destruction at which he aims is prevented by the unity of your faith.

  

  Ignatius of Antioch
  • God
  • Together
  • Faith

• The sixty-minute drama form has become very rich.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Drama
  • Rich
  • Become

• Time is change; we measure its passing by how much things alter.

  

  Nadine Gordimer
  • Time
  • Change
  • Measure

• London has the advantage of one of the most gloomy atmospheres in the world.

  

  Bayard Taylor
  • World
  • London
  • Most

• It wouldn't bother me at all not to play on my own album.

  

  Walter Becker Steely Dan
  • Me
  • Play
  • Album

• I thought I was going to retire at 20, and I was going to be a surgeon.

  

  Nadia Comaneci
  • Thought
  • Going
  • Surgeon

• The self is just our operation center, our consciousness, our moral compass. So, if we want to act more effectively in the world, we have to get to know ourselves better.

  

  Gary Wolf
  • World
  • Moral
  • Self

• I understood more what Nancy Reagan and Ronald Reagan, what they were coming from. Kind of the horrors of their childhoods that they were coming from. When you experience such pain early on, some people really interface with that pain and try and unpack it, and some people just take it and squelch it down and try and be as successful as they can. And, you know, encourage everybody, "Don't dwell on the negative! Come on, buck up!"

  

  Cynthia Nixon
  • People
  • Up
  • Experience

• Your only real choices are to open fully and receive their gifts or crucify them and be relieved of their force...But you must be willing to feel your heart's terrors and wounds or else you will close and protect yourself, striking back at the source of openness you most yearn to become.

  

  David Deida
  • Real
  • Heart
  • Choices

• For an economic recovery program to be effective, it must not only create a short-term economic boost but also generate lasting value. Home Star would accomplish that by breaking down the key barrier between homeowners and money-saving retrofits: upfront costs.

  

  Peter Welch
  • Money
  • Home
  • Value

• Oh, pity the poor glutton Whose troubles all begin In struggling on and on to turn What's out into what's in.

  

  Walter de La Mare
  • Struggle
  • Trouble
  • Poor

• When I was first swinging, it was a little more difficult left-handed to get my hand out and roll over.

  

  J. M. Roberts
  • First
  • Swinging
  • Roll Over

• I think America has a responsibility to maintain its leadership in technology and its moral leadership in the world, to explore, to seek knowledge.

  

  Gene Cernan
  • World
  • America
  • Knowledge