Quote by Alan Shepard
Id like to say I was smart enough to finish six grades in five yea

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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Its a very sobering feeling to be up in space and realize that ones safety factor was determined by the lowest bidder on a government contract. – Alan Shepard

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I think all of us certainly believed the statistics which said that probably 88% chance of mission success and maybe 96% chance of survival. And we were willing to take those odds. – Alan Shepard

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Evil can be a teacher, if you look at the wisdom of its negative power. – Tom Brown, Jr.

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I was a writer. I just wasnt a very good one. I was lucky enough to have a playwriting teacher who told me that Id be a better actor than I would a playwright. – Liev Schreiber

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