Neil Armstrong Quotes
Gliders, sail planes, they're wonderful flying machines. It's the closest you can come to being a bird.
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We're seeing quite a lot of people who really would like a return to class-based politics.
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Without knowing about flexibility, one cannot work out strategies to deal with the enemy and prepare for changes, and without knowing about the foundation of one's own culture, one would be contemptuous of the Confucian ethical codes.
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But the Western countries that link their partnership with the poorest countries with respect for democracy also have to consider that they have obligations towards these countries.
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A lot of my work concerns a crisis of agency - what can we do?
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If there really is a God, then he really looks after me.
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Granted, I've changed internally as I've gotten older - I take it easy, I know when to stop and take care of myself, I laugh much more and with my belly and soul - but this comes from the confidence and acceptance that comes with maturity.
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Playing in Wembley Stadium in front of 83-some-thousand fans to win a gold medal was unreal.
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I myself have already spent a third of my life in Germany, first in Cologne and then, since 1994, in Berlin.
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These days, the scientific community accepts me. But getting to that point was tremendously hard, and I think it required a big perception shift. When people have dedicated their lives to something - and spent eight years in college - they just expect that a kid wouldn't be up to doing it.
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There are people worse off than me. I've had a very long run. I'm fine really. I'm just old.
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I've realized that I'm more important than food is. I love a big slice of pizza, but I love myself more. Being thin is about changing the way you think about yourself. It's about saying that you deserve to be healthy.
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The developers, if they decide to move a tortoise, have to pay the long-term costs for enhancing the areas that take care of the tortoise, and it gives us the opportunity to manage an area that is going to be protected.
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We're changing the way people are going to look at wrestling, women's wrestling, forever. Forever. And we're at the start of it? That's unbelievable. That's unbelievable! Unbelievable.
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When I write, I want something to sound good itself.
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The reality is that we know that this universe, that our galaxy, has billions of stars. We know that stars have planets. So the likelihood that there is life somewhere else to me is just absolutely there.
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XTC is my favorite band; I'm a huge Neil Young fan, Jayhawks, all that type of stuff. I like Death Cab for Cutie, also Ryan Adams. I try to impress my children: 'Have you listened to such-and-such?' They're not impressed.
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Somewhere on this globe, every ten seconds, there is a woman giving birth to a child. She must be found and stopped.
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It's honestly true that money means nothing to me.
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Do you know what Margaret Thatcher did in her first Budget? Introduced VAT on yachts! It somewhat ruined my retirement.
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I have a real sense of optimism that we are revolutionizing the way we do politics in this country.
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The wise man admires water, the kind man admires mountains. The wise man moves, the kind man rests. The wise man is happy, the kind man is firm.
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There's a character that I play onstage, and I can't let him loose in the supermarket when I'm buying my beans on toast.
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In life, you always have to keep fighting. It's not easy.
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Gliders, sail planes, they're wonderful flying machines. It's the closest you can come to being a bird.
