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Alan Shepard

"You know, being a test pilot isn't always the healthiest business in the world."

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Donna Grant

"Business is the salt of life."

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Donna Grant

"Be the business never so painful, you may have it done for money."

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Donna Grant

"Asking the appropriate questions means understanding exactly what your customer is trying to achieve."

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Donna Grant

"Tell your good news as an evangelist would. Do so with a passion driven by a need to help and solve problems that some people didn't even know they had."

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Donna Grant

"Recession is when a neighbor loses his job. Depression is when you lose yours."

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Donna Grant

"Actors are trusting souls, and we must go by gut-level instinct, even after our agents and business managers weigh all the odds."

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Donna Grant

"Government "help" to business is just as disastrous as government persecution... the only way a government can be of service to national prosperity is by keeping its hands off."

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Donna Grant

"This marriage is no one's business but our own."

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Donna Grant

"If we deliver on those promises, we'll have done our job, and we did it with PSOne, and we certainly did it with PS2, and we are about to do it very rapidly with PSP. This is a whole new business for us, in terms of the handheld market, and we're going about it the right way."

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Donna Grant

"For policy makers interested in using tax policy to stimulate investments or especially to smooth business cycle fluctuations, the results are not promising."

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Alan Shepard
"We also knew it would be difficult, because of the financial condition of the family, for me to go to college."

Family

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Alan Shepard
"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."

Education

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Alan Shepard
"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

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Alan Shepard
"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

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Alan Shepard
"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."

Achievement

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Alan Shepard
"I must admit, maybe I am a piece of history after all."

History

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Alan Shepard
"The pilot looked at his cues of attitude and speed and orientation and so on and responded as he would from the same cues in an airplane, but there was no way it flew the same. The simulators had showed us that."

Attitude

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Alan Shepard
"I think all of us certainly believed the statistics which said that probably 88% chance of mission success and maybe 96% chance of survival. And we were willing to take those odds."

Success

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Alan Shepard
"Of course, in our grade school, in those days, there were no organized sports at all. We just went out and ran around the school yard for recess."

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Alan Shepard
"But when I was selected, after my very first tour of squadron duty, to become one of the youngest candidates for the test pilot school, I began to realize, maybe you are a little bit better."

Duty

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