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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I want to help people; that's it.
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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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My eyelashes are divas, so they will like a mascara brand one week or for a month, and then they'll just stop working for it. I go back and forth between Maybelline and Cover Girl, and then I carry around a primer, too.
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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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Mental toughness is spartanism with qualities of sacrifice, self-denial, dedication. It is fearlessness, and it is love.
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I hump the wild to take it all in, there is no bag limit on happiness.
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There is probably a perverse pride in my administration... that we were going to do the right thing, even if short-term it was unpopular. And I think anybody who's occupied this office has to remember that success is determined by an intersection in policy and politics and that you can't be neglecting of marketing and P.R. and public opinion.
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The key to success is for you to make a habit throughout your life of doing the things you fear.
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The more you practice tolerating discomfort, the more confidence you'll gain in your ability to accept new challenges.
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Contemporary culture is like the weather - we have to be open to it. I don't like the way it is dismissed or closed down.
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I don't really see huge barriers between any styles of music.
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There were similarities between these two incidents. The similarity was too much success … over-confidence and complacency, quite frankly.
