I did not want to appear before the world as pathetic, deprssed, and psychologically ill. So I erected a barrier of words and wit around myself, so that nobody could see how needy I really was.


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We have no proof, but if we extrapolate, based on the best information we have available to us, we h...
NEIL ARMSTRONG
That's one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind.
NEIL ARMSTRONG
The biggest problem with politics or running for the governor
LANCE ARMSTRONG
Mystery creates wonder and wonder is the basis of man's desire to understand.
NEIL ARMSTRONG
I keep the telephone of my mind open to peace, harmony, health, love, and abundance. Then, whenever ...
EDITH ARMSTRONG
What we play is life.
LOUIS ARMSTRONG
There is two kinds of music the good and bad. I play the good kind.
LOUIS ARMSTRONG
It contains a misleading impression, not a lie. It was being economical with the truth.
ROBERT ARMSTRONG
I believe that the Good Lord gave us a finite number of heartbeats and I'm damned if I'm going to us...
NEIL ARMSTRONG
Man, if you gotta ask you'll never know.
LOUIS ARMSTRONG
Science has not yet mastered prophecy. We predict too much for the next year and yet far too little ...
NEIL ARMSTRONG
At the end of the day, if there was indeed some Body or presence standing there to judge me, I hoped...
LANCE ARMSTRONG
The truth is, if you asked me to choose between winning the Tour de France and cancer, I would choos...
LANCE ARMSTRONG
Without cancer, I never would have won a single Tour de France. Cancer taught me a plan for more pur...
LANCE ARMSTRONG
I got a simple rule about everybody. If you don't treat me right -- shame on you!
LOUIS ARMSTRONG
Of right and wrong he taught Truths as refined as ever Athens heard; And (strange to tell) he ...
JOHN ARMSTRONG
During our lives we're faced with so many elements as well, we experience so many setbacks, and figh...
LANCE ARMSTRONG
If children have the ability to ignore all odds and percentages, then maybe we can all learn from th...
LANCE ARMSTRONG
'Tis not for mortals always to be blest.
JOHN ARMSTRONG
This restless world Is full of chances, which by habit's power To learn to bear is easier than...
JOHN ARMSTRONG
Pain is temporary. It may last a minute, or an hour, or a day, or a year, but eventually it will sub...
LANCE ARMSTRONG
There are, while human miseries abound, A thousand ways to waste superfluous wealth, Without o...
JOHN ARMSTRONG
In much of society, research means to investigate something you do not know or understand,
NEIL ARMSTRONG
Research is creating new knowledge.
NEIL ARMSTRONG
That's one small step for [a] man, one giant leap for mankind.
NEIL ARMSTRONG
I believe every human has a finite number of heartbeats. I don't intend to waste any of mine
NEIL ARMSTRONG
If that's there, I believe that technology will probably step up to their part of it.
NEIL ARMSTRONG
I was elated, ecstatic and extremely surprised that we were successful,
NEIL ARMSTRONG
That's one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind. - On the first moonwalk, July 20, 1969.
NEIL ARMSTRONG
I believe every human has a finite number of heartbeats. I don't intend to waste any of mine
NEIL ARMSTRONG
I was the strange creature that kidnapped Bock from his homeland and brought him to this strange new...
NEIL ARMSTRONG
That's one small step for [a] man, one giant leap for mankind.
NEIL ARMSTRONG
This is part of the essence of motherhood, watching your kid grow into her own person and not being ...
HEATHER ARMSTRONG
That’s sort of a cliché about parents. We all believe that our children are the most beautiful chi...
HEATHER ARMSTRONG
A picture of me as this super affable sales guy gets painted, but in actuality, I'm pretty drive...
TIM ARMSTRONG
It wasn't until I was in my teens that I started admiring writers as inspirations for my own wor...
KELLEY ARMSTRONG
Extraordinary allegations require extraordinary evidence.
LANCE ARMSTRONG
Gliders, sail planes, they're wonderful flying machines. It's the closest you can come to be...
NEIL ARMSTRONG
Here men from the planet Earth first set foot upon the Moon. July 1969 AD. We came in peace for all ...
NEIL ARMSTRONG
That's one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind.
NEIL ARMSTRONG
It suddenly struck me that that tiny pea, pretty and blue, was the Earth. I put up my thumb and shut...
NEIL ARMSTRONG
Music is life itself. What would this world be without good music? No matter what kind it is.
LOUIS ARMSTRONG
Musicians don't retire; they stop when there's no more music in them.
LOUIS ARMSTRONG
I think we're going to the moon because it's in the nature of the human being to face challe...
NEIL ARMSTRONG