Alexey Leonov Quotes
The Earth was small, light blue, and so touchingly alone, our home that must be defended like a holy relic. The Earth was absolutely round. I believe I never knew what the word round meant until I saw Earth from space.
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The art of pictorial creation is so complicated - it is so astronomical in its possibilities of relation and combination that it would take an act of super-human concentration to explain the final realization.
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Life is not orderly. No matter how we try to make life so, right in the middle of it we die, lose a leg, fall in love, drop a jar of applesauce.
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That which prematurely arrives at perfection soon perishes.
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Commitment and credibility go hand in hand.
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I was a bit odd. I read books and wanted to draw and go to art school.
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Let's start to have a grown up debate in this country about who we are and where we want to go and what kind of country we want to build.
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My theory was that what I had to do was make a study of human behavior.
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It simply isn't acceptable for the likes of Google, Facebook, Amazon and others, which amass data by the terabyte, to say, 'Don't worry, your information's safe with us, as all sorts of rules protect you' - when all evidence suggests otherwise.
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You can't get there alone. People have to help you, and I do believe in karma. I believe in paybacks. You get people to help you by telling the truth, by being earnest.
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The best V-Day gift I've ever received was a personalized photo collage.
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We grow small trying to be great.
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I'm not trying to stay in the same place and I'm not trying to compete with what's currently in fashion. That would be dishonest. But, at the same time, I'm different and the music reflects that to some degree.
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For me, comedy is richer and larger than anything else.
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I turned into a workaholic to the point of where my health was in jeopardy.
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If you treat your wife like a thoroughbred, you'll never end up with a nag.
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One of the Life Saving men snapped the camera for us, taking a picture just as the machine had reached the end of the track and had risen to a height of about two feet.
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Facts are more mundane than fantasies, but a better basis for conclusions.
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In my lifetime all our problems have come from mainland Europe and all the solutions have come from the English-speaking nations across the world.
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Nature doesn't like empires. It doesn't like accumulation in one place, it doesn't like monoculture. It's always trying to make diverse species. It wants to spread everything out. And we're constantly trying to hold everything in.
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To me luxury is to be at home with my daughter, and the occasional massage doesn't hurt.
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Come on in. The earth, like the sun, like the air, belongs to everyone - and to no one.
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I consider it an indispensible duty to close this last solemn act of my official life by commending the interests of our dearest country to the protection of Almighty God and those who have the superintendence of them into his Holy keeping.
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The Earth was small, light blue, and so touchingly alone, our home that must be defended like a holy relic. The Earth was absolutely round. I believe I never knew what the word round meant until I saw Earth from space.
