"I guess those of us who have been with NASA ... kind of understand the tremendous excitement and thrills and celebrations and national pride that went with the Apollo program is just something you're not going to create again, probably until we go to Mars."

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Source : "It's Been 25 Years Since We Took That Giant Leap For Mankind - Moon Odyssey" by James Endrst, The Hartford Courant, p. B1, July 08, 1994.

Alan Shepard

#Pride Quotes #Apollo Quotes #Mars Quotes

“I'm just appreciative of everything that has happened in my life. I'm overwhelmed, sometimes, by this. When I see where I grew up and the places I've been, it puts a smile on my face because of all the people there I can help. I give them food; I give them money; I try to provide them with a good lifestyle, and do the best I can because that's where I came from. Those are my people.”
“I'm one of the actors who really enjoys working with kids and animals, which is always a no go. There's something beautiful about it because you tend to forget yourself, as an actor.”

Source : Source: collider.com
“I try not to fake anything.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“A rough should have high grass. When you go bowling they don't give you anything for landing in the gutter, do they?”
“In Australia, kids play in American accents.”
“All I meant was that people take their same old lives wherever they go. No place is perfect enough to strip you of that. And some places have a way of magnifying your demons, or of, I don't know, giving them pep pills.”

Source : Julia Glass (2003). “Three Junes”, Vintage
“Maybe I'm not giving people in the audience enough credit for actually thinking about what they're singing, but it's awesome when a rock'n'roll groove and melody can transport something from Barometer Rising or whatever [ed: it's from 1958's The Watch That Ends the Night] into [Toronto's] Molson Ampitheatre and have people just owning it.”

Source : Source: www.macleans.ca
“It is tragic that Howard Hughes had to die to prove that he was alive.”

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