I believe that the Good Lord gave us a finite number of heartbeats and I’m damned if I’m going to use up mine running up and down a street.
NEIL ARMSTRONGI believe that every human has a finite number of heartbeats. I don’t intend to waste any of mine running around doing exercises.
More Neil Armstrong Quotes
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I fully expected that, by the end of the century, we would have achieved substantially more than we actually did.
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I thought the attractions of being an astronaut were actually, not so much the Moon, but flying in a completely new medium.
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Society’s future will depend on a continuous improvement program for the human character. And what will that future bring? I do not know, but it will be exciting.
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Damn I really did it. I blew the first words on the moon, didn’t I?
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It’s different, but it’s very pretty out here. I suppose they are going to make a big deal of all this.
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It suddenly struck me that that tiny pea, pretty and blue, was the Earth. I put up my thumb and shut one eye, and my thumb blotted out the planet Earth. I didn’t feel like a giant. I felt very, very small.
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Fear is not an unknown emotion to us.
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It’s a brilliant surface in that sunlight. The horizon seems quite close to you because the curvature is so much more pronounced than here on earth. It’s an interesting place to be. I recommend it.
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This is one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind.
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Science has not yet mastered prophecy. We predict too much for the next year and yet far too little for the next 10.
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Start at the end and work back.
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NASA has been one of the most successful public investments in motivating students to do well and achieve all they can achieve.
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I have been in relatively high-risk businesses all of my adult life.
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If that’s there, I believe that technology will probably step up to their part of it.
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I believe that every human has a finite number of heartbeats. I don’t intend to waste any of mine running around doing exercises.
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