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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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 think that souls agree to come in and do what they're going to do and then leave when they're going to leave. So there's nothing tragic when a soul leaves. I think it was already preordained.
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Every industry has slack times, and everyone has bad days at work.
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Never believe anything in politics until it has been officially denied.
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I think a great first date would be something different... not like movies or going to dinner... going rock climbing together... doing an activity and then going to dinner, so that you guys share an experience, and then you have something to talk about, and it's not the same old thing.
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The terrorist uses surprise and stealth, and the only way to defeat that is by having accurate and timely intelligence.
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Humanity has always conquered the flux of natural time by means of a rhythm between active and passive time-spans. To reconquer his holidays, to establish a new and better time schedule for life, has been the great endeavour of man ever since the days of Noah.
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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.
