Neil Armstrong Quotes
Pilots take no special joy in walking: pilots like flying. Pilots generally take pride in a good landing, not in getting out of the vehicle.
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The reason for not getting married was that I just didn't have a partner to get married to. Climbing mountains was more attractive to me than marriage, or other fun things like that.
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It's my job to have ups and downs because it makes good music.
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My best friend Rosemarie and I had a very involved secret life when we were in elementary school. After we saw 'The Day the Earth Stood Still' on TV, we invented a whole secret life in which we were twins from the planet Venus, and we were in charge of the entire solar system as well as Earth.
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For me, it is very important to control a situation in defence. You can always score goals, but you have to add stability in the defence.
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Metaphysics is a dark ocean without shores or lighthouse, strewn with many a philosophic wreck.
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Life wasn't about freeing up human souls. It was about creating obedient slaves in the hierarchical construction of the society - with God at the top, then the king and then the father.
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Television is democracy at its ugliest.
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At school, I was a tomboy, and it would be me and all my guy friends.
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I grew up in uptown Jamaica; I went to a rich school. I was raised by my mother and my stepfather; they made sure education came before anything. I had a good childhood, grew up spending time with my bigger brothers and sisters. My people are good people. I was exposed to a lot of different kinds of people and culture.
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I recognize myself to be an intensely naive person. Most novelists are, despite frequent pretensions to deep socio-political insight.
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What I try to keep an eye on is I don't work for the party bosses in Washington. I work for 26 million Texans.
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In my proper character, I am an officer of the United States Army.
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Let's overwhelm the Castro regime with iPhones, iPads, American cars and American ingenuity.
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I don't think it's possible to separate out the strands of a writer's history, circumstances, life events, and that writer's themes.
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Deep inside, I was hoping I'd win: The competition was tough, but I learned from other's mistakes.
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When I was a kid, there was always food to be had on the street in Jerusalem, but anything above a falafel stand was mediocre or worse.
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My thinking has always been that the worst problem we have with regard to lack of inclusion is the terribly low labor force participation rates and terribly high unemployment rates of young men, especially young men in ethnic minority groups and, in particular, young black men.
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I don't say: 'can't do that', 'won't do that'. I've never thought in that way about work.
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«This is not like the water that falls from the sky, without knowing exactly why.»
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'I’ll admit, I was disappointed to learn that dragons didn’t exist. That’s a hard lesson for a boy to learn.'Chronicler smiled. 'Honestly, I was a little disappointed myself. I went looking for a legend and found a lizard. A fascinating lizard, but a lizard just the same.'
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Glenn must think he's still in space. He's orbiting the issues faster than he orbited earth.
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MF Global used to be known as Man Financial, and it had a reasonably good reputation. It did a humdrum business placing commodities trades for fund managers as well as farmers, grain dealers and others whose livelihoods depend on the vagaries of commodity prices.
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The realm of fairy-story is wide and deep and high and filled with many things: all manner of beasts and birds are found there; shoreless seas and stars uncounted; beauty that is an enchantment, and an ever-present peril; both joy and sorrow as sharp as swords.
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Pilots take no special joy in walking: pilots like flying. Pilots generally take pride in a good landing, not in getting out of the vehicle.
