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.

Neil Armstrong

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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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• Our lives are now in a telephone, all our data, all our finances, all our personal information, and so it's proper that we have some constraints on that. But it's not going to be 100 percent. If it is 100 percent, then we're not going to be able to protect ourselves and our societies from some people who are trying to hurt us.

  

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• Everyone was becoming someone else. Sometimes, when you were older, you became someone younger. And me, I felt old.

  

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• The benefits of growth have not trickled down. Income inequalities have become one of the biggest global challenges, attracting growing attention not only in academic literature but also among policymakers globally.

  

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• My biggest project right now is trying to be a really great mom and learning how to balance family and career. I'm just trying to spend as much time with my family as I can.

  

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• From the first instant I met her, I wanted to be Nora Ephron. I just really wanted to please her.

  

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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.

  

  Neil Armstrong
  • Good
  • Joy
  • Pride