Gene Cernan Quotes
If the guidance failed or started to stray or went somewhere we didn't like or the ground didn't like, I could flip a switch, and I could control seven, over seven and a half million pounds of thrust with this handle and fly the thing to the Moon myself.
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Somebody was asking me the other day - President Bush is now talking about freedom for the Arab world. I say, well, that's great. I was talking about that fifty years ago.
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Hair is a huge part of who I am and what I obsess over - I've had long hair my entire life.
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I wouldn't want to be remembered as the guy who contaminated a perfectly legitimate form of protest art with money and celebrities.
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I wanted to become a college coach. I got game films of all the good college coaches - Pete Newell at California, Eddie Donovan with St. Bonaventure, Ken Loeffler at LaSalle.
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My kind publishers, Toby Mundy and Margaret Stead of Atlantic Books, have commissioned me to write the life of Queen Victoria.
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The clever cat eats cheese and breathes down rat holes with baited breath.
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My mom is incredibly stylish, and she gets it from my grandmother. I feel like I can't live up to how chic they are as women. They are great role models for aging gracefully, and that's a thing that is very key that I try to always emulate.
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The comic is the perception of the opposite; humor is the feeling of it.
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In my job I meet many outstanding, world class, British based companies. But we need more companies and more jobs in the companies we have.
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I want people to just to see, all you got to do is have a little faith.
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I'm definitely a Tory. My dad was a Conservative councillor, and I spent years as a child knocking on doors with him. I'm a Tory because I'm passionate about business and enterprise. But I am also a compassionate Conservative. There should always be a net through which no one should fall.
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I have a very musical family from my Scottish roots.
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As a writer, one is always a little blind to what one writes.
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You cannot climb the ladder of success dressed in the costume of failure.
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My approach to every game was to try to erase the games that were before and try to focus on the game at hand.
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It's really just my Hammurabi code of journalism ethics, that I don't want to ask someone to do something that I won't do myself.
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Actually, I was born Adam Zachary Orth. Zak is short for my middle name. I was never called Adam.
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That every person is desirous to obtain, with as little sacrifice as possible, as much as possible of the articles of wealth.
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If the culture shifts, if people think differently about women, the art will shift, too. You can't ask art to make social change. It's not what it's for.
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As far as my notoriety or whatever, I haven't been the star of a hit film.
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Ask anybody who has ever remodeled their house. There's always problems. They open up walls, they find this, they find that. There is always something. I'm in a business where you have to control those variables.
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The best of merchandise will go back to the shelf unless handled by a conscientious, tactful salesman.
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Culture is simultaneously the fruit of a people's history and a determinant of history.
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If the guidance failed or started to stray or went somewhere we didn't like or the ground didn't like, I could flip a switch, and I could control seven, over seven and a half million pounds of thrust with this handle and fly the thing to the Moon myself.
