Alan Shepard Quotes
We had some adverse conditions in the '60s, in the '70s and the '80s. The agency has risen above that in the past and will rise above that again.
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My works are an imitation of my own past and present.
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I'm a collaborator. I know I don't know everything. I don't want to know everything.
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To praise it would amount to praising myself. For the entire content of the work... coincides almost exactly with my own meditations which have occupied my mind for the past thirty or thirty-five years.
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I think one's history and past is important at a certain time in your life, especially as an artist, just to try to hone in on that.
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I'm really obsessed with the past.
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I fantasise about what the future could be in terms of aesthetic and psychology. It's the most difficult thing to do because you have to start from the past - your favourite architect, your favourite song - you take it all with you.
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I'm a professional fighter and like most professional fighters I have had difficulties with my hands in the past.
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When historians of early America turned from the pursuit of past politics, they devised a category known in the academy as 'social and intellectual history.' In it, they stuffed nearly everything except politics on the assumption, which the anthropologists assured them was correct, that it would all fit together. Somehow it did not.
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I don't like the road. I love being on the track. I like being indoors and the fact I'm not battling past 200 other riders.
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Atheists have as much conscience, possibly more, than people with deep religious conviction, and they still have the same problem of how they reconcile themselves to a bad deed in the past. It's a little easier if you've got a god to forgive you.
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The simple truth of our finiteness is that we could, by whatever means, go on interminably only at the price of either losing the past and, therewith, our identity, or living only in the past and therefore without a real present. We cannot seriously wish either and thus not a physical enduring at that price.
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History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.
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The illusion is that most of my work is simply about past events: a point in history and nothing else.
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In the past, on Earth, it has largely been to exploit foreign resources and to expand the domestic territory.
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Elvis was just like a big old kid. It was like he never got past 19, I don't think, in a lotta ways.
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The unrecorded past is none other than our old friend, the tree in the primeval forest which fell without being heard.
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When you come across someone colorful and vibrant maybe in the present it isn't so interesting, but, in the past, it sheds a wonderful light onto living life.
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I have been immeasurably honored to serve the people of Maine for nearly 40 years in public office and for the past 17 years in the United States Senate. It was incredibly difficult to decide that I would not seek a fourth term in the Senate.
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Forgivness is letting go of the hope that the past can be changed.
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The tragic nuclear accident at Fukushima underscored the urgent need to enhance nuclear safety and the international emergency response framework. I commend the International Atomic Energy Agency for its work.
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Women on the way up generally fail to win popularity contests. The only compensation is that once you're there you will become very well liked.
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In 1986, human nature in America started to change. That year, 'The Oprah Winfrey Show,' based in Chicago, became nationally syndicated, and the country entered the beginning stages of a quiet cultural revolution.
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I didn't want to create a makeup line for one ethnic group; it had to be multi-ethnic. To me, beauty is beauty. It doesn't matter to me what colour the skin is.
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We had some adverse conditions in the '60s, in the '70s and the '80s. The agency has risen above that in the past and will rise above that again.
