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"Here is the test to find whether your mission on Earth is finished: if you're alive, it isn't."
"There is no such thing on earth as an uninteresting subject; the only thing that can exist is an uninterested person."
"I tell you, we are here on Earth to fart around, and don't let anybody tell you different."
"You have to be a bastard to make it, and that's a fact. And the Beatles are the biggest bastards on earth."
"Photographers deal in things which are continually vanishing and when they have vanished there is no contrivance on earth which can make them come back again."
"Lower your expectations of earth. This isn't heaven, so don't expect it to be."
Explore more quotes by Wally Schirra
"I was told having a website would help me. I have yet to figure out why my life story needs to be on the web."
"Each test pilot I know considers him, or herself, now that there are women, to be the very best. It's very demeaning to step down the ladder once in a while."
"I remember seeing war hero Jimmy Doolittle fly a Gee Bee racer there. He was my childhood hero. Many years later, I was lucky enough to go hunting with him."
"John Glenn craved the publicity. I think even John would admit that. When he went into politics, that became pretty obvious! He knew how to do public relations."
"I saw the booster, not Sputnik, flying by, and I said, maybe this is the way we should be going, not just sitting back waiting for something to happen."
"I don't think the space station will ever do anything for exploration. Putting people up there for a year or more is the only way you will get anywhere near the exploration concept."
"When people have asked if I'd like to go in the Shuttle, I said you don't get to fly it, except for landing, which I'd love to do. I wouldn't go unless I could command it."
"Some of the wives didn't keep up with the program. It started breaking apart during the Apollo days."
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