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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For quite some time, women at NASA only had scientific backgrounds.
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There's something grounded about 'Ugly Americans,' so I think it's good that I'm playing a version of myself in these elevated cartoon circumstances.
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I rejected the notion that my race or sex would bar my success in life.
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You can have all the knowledge and skills in the world, but if your money “blueprint” isn't set for success, you're financially doomed.
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Everything bows to success, even grammar.
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A good director creates an environment, which gives the actor the encouragement to fly.
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The poorest of men are the most useful to those seeking power.
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There were similarities between these two incidents. The similarity was too much success … over-confidence and complacency, quite frankly.
