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Well, I think we tried very hard not to be overconfident, because when you get overconfident, that's when something snaps up and bites you. ↗

— Neil Armstrong

#bites #get #hard #i #i think

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. ↗

— Neil Armstrong

#brilliant #close #earth #here #horizon

Research is creating new knowledge. ↗

— Neil Armstrong

#knowledge #new #new knowledge #research

Yeah, I wasn't chosen to be first. I was just chosen to command that flight. Circumstance put me in that particular role. That wasn't planned by anyone. ↗

— Neil Armstrong

#chosen #circumstance #command #first #flight

I'm substantially concerned about the policy directions of the space agency. We have a situation in the U.S. where the White House and Congress are at odds over what the future direction should be. They're sort of playing a game and NASA is the shuttlecock that they're hitting back and forth. ↗

— Neil Armstrong

#agency #back #concerned #congress #direction

I don't know, 53 years with the same human being? I can't be around myself for more than three or four hours before I want to kill everybody. ↗

— Scott Baio

#before #being #everybody #four #hours

We had hundreds of thousands of people all dedicated to doing the perfect job, and I think they did about as well as anyone could ever have expected. ↗

— Neil Armstrong

#anyone #could #dedicated #did #doing

A single prop that does not look real to an audience can louse you up. The same is true of the smallest flaw in setting up the motivation in a story line. ↗

— Desi Arnaz

#does #flaw #line #look #louse

I went to high school with Al Capone. ↗

— Desi Arnaz

#al capone #capone #high #high school #i

When we got married, nobody gave it more than two weeks. There were bets all over the country, with astronomical odds against us. ↗

— Desi Arnaz

#astronomical #bets #country #gave #got