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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It takes a great man to be a good listener.
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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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It may not happen in my lifetime, but if I can play a part in moving things along, then I feel I've done a good job.
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Fortunately, we have reached the moon, but the Earth still suffers from hunger.
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In the end, I do not think we will find the neat boundary between 'normal sadness' and 'clinical depression,' if only because mood is an innate human characteristic, like weight or the length of our hair. However, to reject the very notion of depression as an illness on account of these difficulties is throwing the baby out with the bath water.
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The average comedian is kind of an observer looking at everyday things that everyone could relate to and then trying to find the exaggeration in those things.
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The earth is a great big orphanage for most animals.
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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.
