Jim Lovell Quotes

We got to the moon on Christmas Eve 1968, at the end of a poor year for this country. We had Vietnam. We had civil unrest. We had the assassinations of Robert Kennedy and Martin Luther King. But we went around the moon and saw the far side for the first time. A script writer couldn't have done a better job of raising people's hope.

Jim Lovell

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I would do anything to keep looking the job. I think you make an extra effort if you're on show.

Joanna Lumley

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Life's a fight. It's a good fight of faith.

Joel Osteen

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I did a bit of boxing when younger. Once I was joined by Muhammad Ali as my co-commentator. I've got a picture of the two of us together ringside at the Albert Hall on my wall at home.

John Motson

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With 'Verdict' I was away for six months, touring, with a week in each town. I did not really enjoy that aspect of it.

Matthew Lewis

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Happiness is your dentist telling you it won't hurt and then having him catch his hand in the drill.

Johnny Carson

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Every time we've gone somewhere, it's just been better and better and God's always blessed us for following.

Stacie Orrico

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Look at any black-and-white movie; everybody is smoking.

Loni Anderson

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Mount Carmel was a very monastic place. We lived in another time - an easier time, a better time. We didn't have running water or most modern conveniences. But in a lot of ways, it was a very satisfying life.

David Thibodeau

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I don't want to know about the lives of other actors and I don't want people to know too much about me. If we don't know about the private lives of other actors, that leaves us as clean slates when it comes to playing characters. That's the point, they can create these other characters and I can believe them.

Christian Bale

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My mother spent a month in a Swiss hospital after a terrible ski accident.

Christopher Buckley

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It was a natural for me to end up in the theater because I'd done a lot of reading about it.

Courtney B. Vance

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Man is a universe within himself.

Bob Marley

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