Jack Schmitt Quotes
It's like trying to describe what you feel when you're standing on the rim of the Grand Canyon or remembering your first love or the birth of your child. You have to be there to really know what it's like.
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The options are war versus peace, and I am delighted that, so far, it appears that peaceful negotiation has won the day.
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I'd work with soccer coordinators at Game Changing Films and have one or two combat training sessions with my stunt double, who's a wushu master.
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Divorce was very sad, obviously, but now I've gotten over it.
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The Open Access Movement has fought valiantly to ensure that scientists do not sign their copyrights away but instead ensure their work is published on the Internet, under terms that allow anyone to access it.
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When one takes action for others, one's own suffering is transformed into the energy that can keep one moving forward; a light of hope illuminating a new tomorrow for oneself and others is kindled.
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You have got to pay attention, you have got to study and you have to do your homework. You have to score higher than everybody else. Otherwise, there is always somebody there waiting to take your place.
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The deadliest foe to virtue would be complete self-knowledge.
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The ox suffers, the cart complains.
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I have a day job. I can make movies when I want to.
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I'm not strict on my calorie count; I just pay attention to my body.
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When tulip mania dies down, all that remains are pretty flowers. When bubbles burst, nothing is left but soapy residue. But the Internet revolution, for all its speculative excesses, really is changing the world.
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In fiction, too, after the death of Cooper the main tendency for nearly a generation was away from the conquest of new borders to the closer cultivation, east of the Mississippi, of ground already marked.
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I've written many extra verses to songs that I learned to sing - an extra verse about a friend, or just add some verse - and that led to writing my own songs.
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I would love to work with Martin Scorsese.
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Throughout the day, I frequently use my iPhone to check 'Deadline Hollywood' and my Twitter feed, as well as the 'Daily Beast,' the 'New York Times,' 'Metsblog,' and 'Thejetsblog.'
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I would give no thought of what the world might say of me, if I could only transmit to posterity the reputation of an honest man.
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When you have too much scheme, sometimes it's hard to work on all the things you have to, and you can make effort the top priority of your game.
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You cannot survive if you do not know the past.
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Every once in a while I feel the tremendous force of the novel. But it does not stay with me.
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You know what would be a fun game? If Pac-Man was on a beach, and he was chomping coconuts. You could see how tan you could get your Pac-Man.
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Self-esteem comes from who you have in your life. How you were raised. What you struggled with as a child.
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I'm not the greatest driver. I don't know if I'll ever master the art.
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It took us 2,000 years to find Noah’s Ark. Do we ever find Flight 370?
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It's like trying to describe what you feel when you're standing on the rim of the Grand Canyon or remembering your first love or the birth of your child. You have to be there to really know what it's like.
