Kathleen Rubins Quotes
Joining NASA was very exciting, but it was the hardest decision I have had to make in my life.

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The tragedy of all of this is that it happened to me and it shouldn't have happened. It ruined my life and my career. That's the tragedy of this.
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A lot of companies make diversity a part of the performance goals against which an executive gets paid. Just as you have to make a certain sales number, you have to make a diversity number to get your bonus.
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I'm not very good in crowds, so I usually try to become as small as possible.
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Is it not by love alone that we succeed in penetrating to the very essence of being?
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I am sure I am one of 2,000 film directors in the world that Tarantino admires.
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Hack fiction exploits curiosity without really satisfying it or making connections between it and anything else in the world.
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From 1 till 7, when we moved to England, I spoke only Portuguese.
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As the bill requires, any terror alert system must give people and organizations some indication about what steps they must take to improve their own security and assist in the Nation's security.
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I don't believe that human beings are necessarily monogamous.
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I wasn't in shape at all before I decided to do boxing. I wasn't an athlete. Before boxing, I would go to the gym for a month and stop.
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Being an actress can be a little like being a girl in the '50s: You're stuck waiting by the phone, hoping that the boy you like will call.
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To destroy is always the first step in any creation.
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The person who grieves suffers his passion to grow upon him; he indulges it, he loves it; but this never happens in the case of actual pain, which no man ever willingly endured for any considerable time.
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When you're in the music business, everything is very personal, because you are invested in everything; there's a very deep, personal attachment to your music.
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Look at Islam in a rational manner and without demagoguery or emotion. It is the leading religion of the world with 1.5 billion followers.
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One thing I've tried to never do is make wish lists. I try to have a very steppingstone mentality about this whole thing, where as soon as you make one step you visualize the next step, not five steps ahead.
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American power worldwide is at its historic zenith.
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I realize how myself and other people have started to almost fool ourselves that it's more important to us and more real than the real world, the offline world, and we value looking at our phone and pixels on a screen more than connecting eye to eye with a human being, which is terrifying to me because we're becoming robots.
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I'm still really interested in acting, I love film so much. It's definitely something I'm going to explore as well.
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Believe deep down in your heart that you're destined to do great things.
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Film is the medium for communicating not just ideas, but things of the heart.
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No. Absolutely not. I think that the Russians are praying for a Labour victory...praying is perhaps an unfortunate choice of words. I think that they would much prefer a Labour government and that the idea that they would prefer a Tory government, I think is utter bunkum, and they the Soviets authorized me to say so.
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Joining NASA was very exciting, but it was the hardest decision I have had to make in my life.