Chris Hadfield Quotes
And now for Return to Flight, I'm chief of robotics working in the astronaut office in Houston, as a Canadian.
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Being well-dressed is a wonderful thing, but I don't think it should be life threatening.
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My first thought is always of light.
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Colonialism deprives you of your self-esteem and to get it back you have to fight to redress the balance.
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The biggest misconception people have about me is that when they see how young I am, they think, 'Oh, this guy must have always wanted to be in politics; his parents must have been politically connected.' I'm a finance major and always intended to go into business.
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As someone who's been covering presidential campaigns since the 1950s, I have no delusions about political reporting. Candidates bargaining access to get the kind of news coverage they want is nothing new.
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If someone believes they are limited by their gender, race or background, they will become more limited.
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I love my wife, she deserves anything and everything.
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You know, sometimes I get moments of inspiration when I'm writing something and then the task seems so daunting that it just kind of scares me away.
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Something is happening to Britain and the British. Or has happened. We are said to be passing through a transition, or a turning point, or a transformation; nobody is quite sure which.
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I don't think it's that I don't like Sondheim. It's that I find it really... I don't know how to describe it. Doing it is the most extraordinary thing. Because it's like Shakespeare times 100 with singing. It's that satisfying - and that demanding.
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Men don't hear women.
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I consider my relationship with acting in Hollywood as sort of a mutual breakup. Through puberty, Hollywood didn't really want me anymore, and I was like, 'Yeah, I don't really want you, either.'
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I suppose if I wanted to be the girl next door, I could have been. I think America is confused by someone who appears to be sexual and spiritual at the same time.
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A lot of my colleagues have been people with broad interests in economics, not just narrowly focused interests.
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I don't know what my future is.
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I want to serve my country, but not necessarily in the political arena.
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Whenever we're afraid, it's because we don't know enough. If we understood enough, we would never be afraid.
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All that a pacifist can undertake-but it is a very great deal-is to refuse to kill, injure or otherwise cause suffering to another human creature, and untiringly to order his life by the rule of love though others may be captured by hate.
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The source of so much of my anxiety in life and the tensions in my relationship is my anxiety about my kid. It's all very abstract and unfounded and ungrounded.
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I have only ever read one book in my life, and that is White Fang. It's so frightfully good I've never bothered to read another.
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Alden Ehrenreich is a drama nerd, and Alice Englert is indie girl. They're so cool in the way that our characters are cool.
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So much of a stand-up's life is doing live radio and having to be funny and quick on the spot with these strangers, and sort of surgical in terms of how funny I can be in three minutes.
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In order to resist injuries and stay healthy, you have to be mobile and agile. You have to be able to have your body work for you.
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And now for Return to Flight, I'm chief of robotics working in the astronaut office in Houston, as a Canadian.
