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"The excitement really didn't start to build until the trailer - which was carrying me, with a space suit with ventilation and all that sort of stuff - pulled up to the launch pad."
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"After doing so many different roles, if you don't stretch yourself, there's no excitement left."
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"The excitement of dreams coming true is beyond the description of words."
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"For me, the highest level of sexual excitement is in a monogamous relationship."
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"One feels the excitement of hearing an untold story."
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"The excitement right now is coming from the Liberty movement. And the Republicans want a piece of it."
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"Excitement was plentiful during my two years' service as a Pony Express rider."
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"I'm glad I haven't married - I crave excitement."
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"There hasn't been this much excitement since the Romans fed the Christians to the Lions."
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"No one can deny the excitement of visiting another world."
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"The guitar has a kind of grit and excitement possessed by nothing else."
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"We also knew it would be difficult, because of the financial condition of the family, for me to go to college."
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"I'd 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."
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"You've done it in the simulator so many times, you don't have a real sense of being excited when the flight is going on. You're excited before, but as soon as the liftoff occurs, you are busy doing what you have to do."
Being
"I think the sense of family and family achievement, plus the discipline which I received there from that one-room school were really very helpful in what I did later on."
Family
"I didn't mind studying. Obviously math and the physical science subjects interested me more than some of the more artistic subjects, but I think I was a pretty good student."
Science
"It's a very sobering feeling to be up in space and realize that one's safety factor was determined by the lowest bidder on a government contract."
Government
"Then there was the challenge to keep doing better and better, to fly the best test flight that anybody had ever flown. That led to my being recognized as one of the more experienced test pilots, and that led to the astronaut business."
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"The first plane ride was in a homemade glider my buddy and I built. Unfortunately we didn't get more than four feet off the ground, because it crashed."
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"The rocket had worked perfectly, and all I had to do was survive the reentry forces. You do it all, in a flight like that, in a rather short period of time, just 16 minutes as a matter of fact."
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"I must admit, maybe I am a piece of history after all."
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