Alan Shepard Quotes
No way that any astronaut worth his salt volunteered for the space program to become a hero. You don't select astronauts who want fame and fortune. You select them because they're the best test pilots in the world, they know it, and it's a personal challenge for them. And the astronauts of today are exactly the same.

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To write a good mystery you have to know where it will end before you can decide where it will begin... and I've always known where it will end.
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I don't just say I'm conservative. I have boot leather to my gospel.
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As I see it, a green salad is an open invitation to carrots, onions, mushrooms, tomatoes, and the sprouts that grow in jars on my kitchen counter.
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I'm here today because I hated everything else.
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It's good for kids to look up to sporting role models.
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I thought that communism, the tyranny of communism, was an abomination and I beseeched God to bring that terrible evil down and he did. It was a great triumph, it took awhile, but it happened.
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I feel that the world is increasingly about the bottom line, and not so much about human respect or human dignity. In that regard, people who care about other people will not be in a position to make choices and do things that other people who they're competing against will get to do.
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I don't like to define my music. To me, music is pure emotion. It's language that can communicate certain emotions and the rhythms cuts across genders, cultures and nationalities. All you need to do is close your eyes and feel those emotions.
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You ask any person in the U.S. and they know who Mary Lou Retton is.
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I don't even know what my favourite food is anymore, as they are all such bad foods!
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You can either see yourself as a wave in the ocean or you can see yourself as the ocean.
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Millions of people gave their lives fighting fascism and imperialism, but Pearl Harbor was the event that forever changed the course of human history.
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Fear was absolutely necessary. Without it, I would have been scared to death.
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I started out doing theater when I was really young, and I completely fell in love with it. I knew that this was what I wanted to do.
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Since first starting my career, I've grown accustomed to working with actors older than me. I'm always the youngest.
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Somebody can't complain when they enjoy going to work and enjoy the people they work with.
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No adultery is bloodless.
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I think most people's careers in theater are based on delusion. It's just that mine started early.
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We all dream. We dream vividly, depending on our nature. Our existence is beyond our explanation, whether we believe in God or we have religion or we're atheist.
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Now, more than ever, the Internet must be wielded along with other media to cast bright lights on all who would destroy freedom in the world.
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There is nothing like a challenge to bring out the best in man.
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I'll use men's shirts, I love men's shirts, but you have to get them altered because they're shaped differently and I like them to be fitting.
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The best years of your life are the ones in which you decide your problems are your own. You do not blame them on your mother, the ecology, or the president. You realize that you control your own destiny.
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No way that any astronaut worth his salt volunteered for the space program to become a hero. You don't select astronauts who want fame and fortune. You select them because they're the best test pilots in the world, they know it, and it's a personal challenge for them. And the astronauts of today are exactly the same.