Alan Shepard Quotes
There were similarities between these two incidents. The similarity was too much success … over-confidence and complacency, quite frankly.
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To be 23 and riding the crest of a song sweeping the world country by country is to live an altered and wholly rarefied existence.
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Los Angeles is a city known as much for it's sun as for its stars and it's dirty air.
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I always wanted to do a bit of Bollywood and a bit of Hollywood.
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I build community. However, I do it wearing a number of hats.
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I was born and brought up in the countryside. I used to live in a sort of converted stables on the grounds of a castle, and I spent a lot of my childhood running around with a pretend sword pretending to be Robert the Bruce.
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My earliest memory is dreamlike: in a small orchard or garden I am carried on the arm, I believe, of my father; there was a group of grown-ups, my mother among them, and the group was slowly walking in the orchard, it seems toward the house.
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An actor has to embody a role.
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I drove across country in my yellow 1970 VW bug (which I drove until 1986) to Los Angeles, having had enough cold weather in 5 years in Ann Arbor, and found a job within a few days.
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I hope that one day when I'll go back to Pakistan, I will build a university like Harvard.
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I've always been very competitive, and I've always had this desire to win my entire life. I guess when it comes to being in the cage, especially, I just hate losing more than I like to win. The idea of someone beating me just doesn't sit well.
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The president of the United States is not a king. You know? Barack Obama was elected by the American people.
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I want to see as many movies as I can and I covet a lot of weird influential movies.
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I feel like fashion and music relate to each other in a lot of ways. I always had to be creative: I'm a very creative person. I always liked making stuff. Apart from music, I always liked making clothes. You're able to express yourself.
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At the beginning of the week, when we do our game planning, we look at the opponent and all the unique things they do.
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I hump the wild to take it all in, there is no bag limit on happiness.
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I have never, ever talked about my orientation or sexuality because whether I am heterosexual, homosexual, bisexual, asexual, it is my concern. I refuse to talk about it... I have not been brought up to talk about my sex life.
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Next to filmmaking and stuff like that, skiing is my favorite thing. I go skiing in Aspen - everywhere. I have been skiing since I was 4. I just love it. I feel so free.
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For quite some time, women at NASA only had scientific backgrounds.
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I don't understand what A grade commercial cinema is. If you are talking about box office success, mine are A+ then!
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Success always obsoletes the very behavior that achieved it.
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Education in the past has been too much inspiration and too little information.
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When I'm working, on sets or stages, my contracts specify in the rider that no plastic bottles be used. When I'm playing with my band, we all use metal and non-plastic containers for drinking to be ecologically sensitive and show others that this is the way to go.
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You have to believe in yourself and only trust your own vision and instincts. If I'd listened to what other people thought about my work in the first 10 years that I was a writer, I never would have made it to begin with.
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There were similarities between these two incidents. The similarity was too much success … over-confidence and complacency, quite frankly.
