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Reach for the stars.


Christa McAuliffe
Most rules that you think are written in stone are just societal. You can change the game and really reach for the stars and make the world a better place.
Sebastian Thrun
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My attitude has always been, if you fall flat on your face, at least you're moving forward. All you have to do is get back up and try again.
Richard Branson
Tags: Attitude You Get
I like the challenge of trying different things and wondering whether it's going to work or whether I'm going to fall flat on my face.
Johnny Depp
Tags: Work Like Things
Kids get bored easily. They have got to get out and get their hands dirty: make things, dismantle things, fix things.
Bruce Dickinson
Tags: Get Out Things
There's always that moment on every movie where you just go, 'Okay, this is that moment. I'm about to potentially fall flat on my face, and I might as well just dive in and see what happens.'
Johnny Depp
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Cut your morning devotions into your personal grooming. You would not go out to work with a dirty face. Why start the day with the face of your soul unwashed?
Robert A. Cook
Tags: Work Morning You
I'm not afraid to get my hands dirty. I've done it all. I've worked as a clown, literally, at children's parties.
Jussie Smollett
Tags: Get Done Children
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Keep your face always toward the sunshine - and shadows will fall behind you.


Walt Whitman
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After shows my face feels dirty with makeup and sweat, especially in the smaller venues, so it feels good to get back to the bus and smooth it away. Sometimes you need something alcohol-based, especially on tour when you don't always get a chance to keep washing your face all the time.
Ellie Goulding
Tags: Time Good Chance
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I want people to know that movie stars live a normal, middle-class life.


Shah Rukh Khan
Tags: People Life Know
What looks absolutely fabulous in rehearsal can fall flat in front of an audience. The audience dictates what you do or don't change.
Harvey Fierstein
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Classifying the stars has helped materially in all studies of the structure of the universe.


Annie Jump Cannon
What I try to do as an actor is constantly find that, find ways to risk, find opportunities to fall on my face if it's going to be worth it, and then maybe I'll surprise myself.
Jeremy Irons
Tags: Going Then Myself
Ideals are like the stars: we never reach them, but like the mariners of the sea, we chart our course by them.
Carl Schurz
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If you do big things they print your face, and if you do little things they print only your thumbs.


Arthur Baer
Tags: You Your Things
I definitely try to live my life in a very fearless manner, but there are no other sports that you jump from a three-story building and land on your hands! Diving is a lot like life. You just have to trust in what you know and allow it to happen.
Keshia Knight Pulliam
Tags: Sports Trust You
I got my family here and my career here and I'm sitting here in the middle, and I'm stuck. So I have to do something, you know, have to reach out and get some help.
William Perry
Tags: Family You Get
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Sometimes if you want to see a change for the better, you have to take things into your own hands.


Clint Eastwood
Tags: Change You Your
I am the product of hustlers who taught me how to do it. They gave me a hustler's ambition. Not a bad thing to get from your parents. But hustling only gets you so far. You have to trust yourself. And you have to be ready to fall on your face and be okay when it happens.
Jay Pharoah
Tags: Trust You Me