Chris Hadfield Quotes
I'm a mechanical engineer, and I grew up on a farm, so I like practical hardware - somebody's elegant solution that proves itself over the long term.
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'Skins' is about a group of teenagers in Bristol, and it's all about what they get up to and all the different things they do. I think it's a good show because it's come from a very real place, and there's a lot of young people involved in the writing.
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Don't go getting mixed up in the business of your betters, or you'll land in trouble too big for you.
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Ricky Martin is one of the artists I wanted to be growing up.
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The loneliest Chinese man I ever met lived halfway up the Three Gorges, in Sichuan Province.
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Creativity is generating ideas that are novel and useful. I define originals as people who go beyond dreaming up the ideas and take initiative to make their visions a reality.
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What winning is to me is not giving up, is no matter what's thrown at me, I can take it. And I can keep going.
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My parents would always say, 'It doesnt' matter if it's a guy picking up the garbage or the President of the United States, treat everybody as you would want to be treated.
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When I was growing up, we were taught in school that North Koreans, and especially the North Korean leadership, were all devils.
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I've not given up having a child. But I hope whatever route of parenthood I choose, whether it's adoption or I'm able to conceive, I just hope that I'm able to give someone as beautiful a life as my parents gave me.
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I'm not going to comment about potential jobs in the future because that's a rabbit hole to go down and get caught up in, but all I'll say is I'll go where the good scripts are.
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The first thousand days of a baby's life are likely to determine the rest of her life - whether she grows up to be healthy or not, both physically and emotionally.
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I'm getting to be a real pro at coming into things midstream and trying to catch up.
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Decisions are made by those who show up.
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Popular ideas about AIDS are based on a hypothesis that does not stand up to scientific scrutiny.
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Psychotherapy works, and some types of therapy have been shown to be much more effective than antidepressants over the long run.
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It is a fact that scientists have deposited dye in certain lakes around Orlando and tracked the effluent to Florida Bay. There is a lake near Everglades City, Deep Lake, and large tarpon show up in that lake, 30 miles from the sea.
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For a long time, society put obstacles in the way of women who wanted to enter the sciences.
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I used to be a workout fiend and I was so unhappy because I wanted to eat what I wanted to eat. So now if I know I have to be in a bikini, I'll obviously watch what I eat for a week.
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We forget that the most successful statesmen have been professionals. Lincoln was a professional politician.
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I don't believe in very many things, but art is definitely one of them. And at the top of that list, film and art influence our world's culture much more than many of us understand and fully respect.
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Environments work us over and remake us. It is man who is the content of and the message of the media, which are extensions of himself. Electronic man must know the effects of the world he has made above all things. (p. 90)
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I went to Ohio University studying arts and history, and playing football. But I was only interested in girls, my pals and sports. I only did the minimum for school.
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I am a huge fan of biographies. What I'm always looking for is a story. I want a story I have never heard from anyone else.
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I'm a mechanical engineer, and I grew up on a farm, so I like practical hardware - somebody's elegant solution that proves itself over the long term.
