Alan Shepard Quotes
I think about the personal accomplishment, but there's more of a sense of the grand achievement by all the people who could put this man on the moon.
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After all, film is so porous, and to my mind, so oddly occult, that I think that film itself absorbs odd energies like a living skin.
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Christmas is, of course, the time to be home - in heart as well as body.
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Medicine, you see, is my first love; whether I write fiction or nonfiction, and even when it has nothing to do with medicine, it's still about medicine. After all, what is medicine but life plus? So I write about life.
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In the future, I want to have super-fights.
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The issue with Syria, I think for many of us, has always been about Iran. This is an anchor point for them in terms of regional domination. It means a lot to them. They are all in here.
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A lot of people will call me nuts or crazy, but I've always been pretty stable. By some people's standards, I might be crazy. But I realize that I'm not going to harm anyone, and the only place that I live is within my own universe, really - so it's O.K.
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We're so marriage-obsessed, we think that only married people are families.
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Prohibition didn't work in the Garden of Eden. Adam ate the apple.
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Going to hospital is rather like going to an alien planet.
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What I want to do is tell stories about normal people in the American suburbs. I don't write the book where it's a conspiracy reaching the prime minister; I don't write the book with the big serial killer who lops off heads. My setting is a very placid pool of suburbia, family life. And within that I can make pretty big splashes.
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Being in the spotlight, you know, you tend to kind of forget who you are. And being an artist... it could be a very superficial job. It could be very pretentious as well.
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The difficult part was to tell the world that I was finishing.
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It's not what you wear it's how you wear it, is what I say.
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I never met a woman I didn't like. I love 'em all, in their different ways.
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A lot of movies are made to make us dream.
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After six years at Le Cirque, I decided to start my own business. I opened Daniel at 76th Street in May '93.
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I had always been feeling uncomfortable in my mind about giving advice to others and not acting upon it myself.
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I am a very active audience member. I want to be moved. I want to be confronted. I want to feel.
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My brother and I are best friends.
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Being married to a psychologist, I realize that I learn more from imperfections.
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We're journalists, and so it's our job to be impartial and provide a fair and thorough assessment of what's happening on the ground from the perspective of what we're able to see.
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It is important to understand that counterproducti ve actions of body, speech and mind do not arise of their own accord, but spring up in dependence on our motivation. Faulty states of mind give rise to faulty actions. To control negative physical and verbal actions, we need to tame our minds.
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I think about the personal accomplishment, but there's more of a sense of the grand achievement by all the people who could put this man on the moon.
