Gene Cernan Quotes
Perhaps the two greatest moments of my life were standing on the moon and being outside of the room when my granddaughter was born! We tend not to remember the worst.
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I am enjoying my face changing, as well as realizing that at the same time, as you get older, the machine isn't as well-oiled as it was.
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The tragedy of all of this is that it happened to me and it shouldn't have happened. It ruined my life and my career. That's the tragedy of this.
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I would like to direct.
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I just want to do my job.
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Unfortunately, America doesn't have a minister of culture, and I don't understand why. It's really bad for young people.
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I wouldn't say no to becoming a Bond girl. Making it in Hollywood has been my dream ever since I was little, watching Marilyn Monroe movies. To star in a Bond movie would be bliss on a stick.
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America is another name for opportunity.
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I was 12 years old when I had my first job, delivering packages.
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I'd like to imagine that in order to beat me a person would have to play almost perfect tennis.
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I was terrible when I first started skating and was clinging onto the side for dear life, but it's something I'll always have now, and the tour is always so much fun.
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I hate facts. I always say the chief end of man is to form general propositions - adding that no general proposition is worth a damn.
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The idea that everything is purposeful really changes the way you live. To think that everything that you do has a ripple effect, that every word that you speak, every action that you make affects other people and the planet.
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Indeed, there is an eloquence in true enthusiasm that is not to be doubted.
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Wait long enough, and people will surprise and impress you.
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I would rather be the tail of a lion than the head of a mouse.
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But friends invited me to a private screening of Emmanuelle and said I'd learn a few things. But I know all the swear words. I just don't use them. So I declined.
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Being a full human being is difficult, frightening, and problematical.
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Basically, books were a luxury item before the printing press.
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My ability to bring different characters to life is what has helped me advance in my career, and I would say as far as looks are concerned, well, I suppose that would be the icing on the cake, but acting comes first and foremost.
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I'm into being a dad, that's where my focus is most of the time. I'm an actor that's my job, but it's not my life. I have a lot of other interests too.
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I think my friend Tom Hanks knows me. He understands me very well. He’s always had a sort of parental feeling toward me. He knows I’m a big mush ball, which is just part of my personality.
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Whenever you begin any good work you should first of all make a most pressing appeal to Christ our Lord to bring it to perfection.
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I like the fact that glass ceilings are breaking all over.
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Perhaps the two greatest moments of my life were standing on the moon and being outside of the room when my granddaughter was born! We tend not to remember the worst.
