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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Mel will always be Mad Max, and me, I will always be a Number.
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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've performed Schoenberg's 'Pierrot lunaire' many times.
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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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We're Midwestern guys who grew up listening to soul music.
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No education is worth having that does not teach the lesson of concentration on a task, however unattractive. These lessons, if not learnt early, will be learnt, if at all, with pain and grief in later life.
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Cloud services cut both ways in terms of security: you get off-site backup and disaster recovery, but you entrust your secrets to somebody else's hands. Doing the latter increases your exposure to government surveillance and the potential for deliberate or inadvertent breaches of your confidential files.
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The appointing power vested in the president imposes delicate and onerous duties. So far as it is possible to be informed, I shall make honesty, capacity, and fidelity indispensable prerequisites to the disposal of office, and the absence of either of these qualities shall be deemed sufficient cause for removal.
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On Bush 'Free Trade' policies, the Republican Party has signed off on economic treason.
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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.
