Neil Armstrong Quotes
There was great uncertainty about how well we would be able to walk in our cumbersome pressurized suit.
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In general, I find that for videos the acting is more realistic.
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When I was, like, 16, I went in to the head of Disney, and I hadn't taken acting class really at all, and I didn't know what I was doing, and it was really embarrassing. Of course, you think Disney wants over-the-top and funny, and I was just trying to be over-the-top and funny, and it just wasn't working, and that was the worst.
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I have thought a sufficient measure of civilization is the influence of good women.
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We did a remake of Lost in Space. Filmed it in London for four months.
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I've always been into sports and yoga and running. I actually study a martial arts self-defense program called Krav Maga. I can't quite say it's easy, but it's fun for me and I love to do it.
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There is only one step from the sublime to the ridiculous.
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I never go to temples, but when I see a child, I see God in them.
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I understand acting and I understand actors. I don't really understand the world of celebrity. That's just bizarre. Those sorts of elements I'm at sea with.
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I'm constantly trying to keep people guessing as to what I'm doing, and I will spend enormous amounts of time looking at manuscripts and asking questions, and people will say, 'I know what his next book is about.'
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The real ornament of woman is her character, her purity.
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I think success happens when it's supposed to and when you can appreciate it. I am grateful that it didn't happen for me at 22 or 23. I would've been foolish enough to think that we're all entitled to it, instead of it being the divine blessing that it is.
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I refuse to confide and don't like it when people write about art.
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My own idea is that these things are as piffle before the wind.
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Even though I'm very Westernized as an individual and very Canadian, I guess I've lost some of my Chinese culture.
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History is rich with adventurous men, long on charisma, with a highly developed instinct for their own interests, who have pursued personal power - bypassing parliaments and constitutions, distributing favours to their minions, and conflating their own desires with the interests of the community.
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I'm a big routine guy. I have to have everything in threes.
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Justice Scalia is predictable. He can be counted on to come down with a conservative opinion, and generally, to bring Justice Clarence Thomas with him.
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People had this image of the Jacksons as the perfect American family and I destroyed that image. But what people have to understand is writing that book was very healing for me.
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When you are happy and in love and when you have children, then maybe you are beautiful.
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Here's a thing about the death of your mother, or anyone else you love: You can't anticipate how you'll feel afterward. People will tell you; a few may be close to right, none exactly right.
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I got thrust into some great things when I was really young.
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In those days, it didn't take much imagination to come up with something that required great lyric development skills. You just thought of an experience that you might have gone through, and write it down.
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There was great uncertainty about how well we would be able to walk in our cumbersome pressurized suit.
