Quote by Alan Shepard
Later, in the early teens, I used to ride my bike every Saturday m

Later, in the early teens, I used to ride my bike every Saturday morning to the nearest airport, ten miles away, push airplanes in and out of the hangars, and clean up the hangars. – Alan Shepard

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The pilot looked at his cues of attitude and speed and orientation and so on and responded as he would from the same cues in an airplane, but there was no way it flew the same. The simulators had showed us that. – Alan Shepard

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Attitude
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Id like to say I was smart enough to finish six grades in five years, but I think perhaps the teacher was just glad to get rid of me. – Alan Shepard

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teacher
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You have to be there not for the fame and glory and recognition and being a page in a history book, but you have to be there because you believe your talent and ability can be applied effectively to operation of the spacecraft. – Alan Shepard

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I get up at sunrise. Im a Buddhist, so I chant in the morning. My wife and I sit and have coffee together, but then its list-making time. I have carpentry projects. We have roads we keep in repair. Its not back-breaking, but its certainly aerobic and mildly strenuous. – Patrick Duffy

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When I wake up at 5 in the morning is it just to jog? Definitely not, I give it all of my efforts. – Haile Gebrselassie

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You know, I mean this sincerely, you know, Im so grateful that I get to get up in the morning and do this, you know, and write books. – Don Winslow

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Morning

I loved fantasy, but I particularly loved the stories in which somebody got out of where they were and into somewhere better – as in the Chronicles Of Narnia, The Wizard Of Oz, The Phantom Tollbooth, the Dungeons &amp Dragons cartoon on Saturday morning in the 80s. – Lev Grossman

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