Yuri Gagarin Quotes

When I orbited the Earth in a spaceship, I saw for the first time how beautiful our planet is. Mankind, let us preserve and increase this beauty, and not destroy it!

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• I've fought with everyone . And now I have become so headstrong that I only do what I want.

  

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• I guess I'm way too kind and generous, and a saint - if you can believe that!

  

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• My first introduction to television, and really just the business in general, was working with David Lynch, with his incredibly open, creative mind that was not following any rules. I didn't know it, because I hadn't been in the business.

  

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• There's always the ongoing actor frustration of finding the great role to do next. I don't go to work a lot. I wait as long as I can until the money runs out or a great part comes along.

  

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• If it took seven days to make a living with a restaurant, then we needed to be in some other line of work.

  

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• When you're with your club team, every week you have a performance to judge. But when you're with the national team, it's a little different because you might not play for three or four months at a time. Things change constantly.

  

  Landon Donovan
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• Government is a health hazard. Governments have killed many more people than cigarettes or unbuckled seat belts ever have.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
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• If writers just sit and talk about oppression, they are not going to do much writing.

  

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• Jupiter from on high smiles at the perjuries of lovers.

  

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• We don't quite have the same comic book culture as America, but I would watch Spider-Man cartoons and X-Men cartoons and watch Bond as much as anyone on the planet.

  

  Taron Egerton
  • Men
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• Watching Republicans in Washington is like watching lemmings, if lemmings jumped into cesspools instead of off cliffs.

  

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• Before I got married, I dated the gamut.

  

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• The only difference between the saint and the sinner is that every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future.

  

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  • Past
  • Difference

• Frankly, right is right and wrong is wrong, particularly when a parent is talking to a child. A bright line around moral responsibility is very important.

  

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• Truth is one forever absolute, but opinion is truth filtered through the moods, the blood, the disposition of the spectator.

  

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• I don't mind being called snobbish, a pain and a social climber, but being called unkind really hurts.

  

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  • Pain
  • Hurts

• The technology is just so far gone. It's just like back in the day you needed a suitcase just to have a cell phone. The battery was so heavy, it was like carrying a gallon of soda around with you all day.

  

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• I have to say I've been lucky in that way in that I've been able to go from different films and different genres with different challenges.

  

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• The theory of cultural bias... is the idea that a culture is based on a particular form of organization. It can't be transplanted except to another variant of that organization.

  

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• The sand swallows burst out of their scupper holes in the bluffs and out over the transparent drown of the water, back again to the white, to the brown, to the black, from moving to stock-still sand waves and water-worked woods and roots that hugged and twisted in the sun.

  

  Saul Bellow
  • Black
  • Water
  • Moving

• What I wonder most about the Anthropocene is not when did it start - but when, and how, will it end? Will it end? Or is it possible that our own growing awareness of our role on Earth can itself play a pivotal role in shaping the outcome toward one that we would desire?

  

  David Grinspoon
  • Earth
  • Growing
  • Desire

• When I orbited the Earth in a spaceship, I saw for the first time how beautiful our planet is. Mankind, let us preserve and increase this beauty, and not destroy it!

  

  Yuri Gagarin
  • Beautiful
  • Earth
  • Firsts