Chris Hadfield Quotes
When you look out the window of a spaceship, you see entire countries, vast swaths of continents. One turn of the head covers what once took thousands of years to traverse at ground level.
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The psychology of women hitherto actually represents a deposit of the desires and disappointments of men.
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Both my parents were amateur badminton players. My father is a scientist and wanted me to be a doctor. But my mom was very aggressive and loved badminton. She pushed me right from the age of nine to take up the sport.
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What I'm still grappling with and learning how to do is to be looking and thinking cinematically, having come from television.
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Saying no frees you up to say yes when it matters most.
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I like buying iTunes. It's instant.
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Doing stunt work is risky, but it's something I enjoy.
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A book is a version of the world. If you do not like it, ignore it; or offer your own version in return.
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If you're going to do something that's going to cause offence to people, you're always going to get a reaction.
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I've always just talked to my family and my friends. I've never been a person that's gone through excessive therapy at all. Some people might say that I should.
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We're in this entertainment business really to give the audience what they want.
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I moved back to Idaho when I was 6 or 7 and then lived in a little town called Twin Falls and then moved to Boise. So quite different from L.A. I'd been to Disneyland a couple of times, and that was the closest I'd been to L.A.
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Rebellion is always going to fascinate, as it's always packaged in a very safe way.
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Some people would say my paintings show a future world and maybe they do, but I paint from reality. I put several things and ideas together, and perhaps, when I have finished, it could show the future.
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Contempt is the only asymmetrical expression in the muscular facial system: Disgust, fear, happiness, surprise and anger typically express themselves symmetrically. Contempt is marked by one lip corner pulled up and in a dismissive sneer.
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Religion, virtually without fail, provides the army at war with its blessings, and recruits from among its officials the chaplain, who in military costume counsels and consoles and stiffens the morale of men at war.
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As is always the case when you are with the actual human being behind the celebrity or legend, there is something human about the man or woman that makes things less than myth.
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See what the world looks like from orbit. Well, in that way, at least, there was profit to be had. Nobody could look down at the planet, green and blue, with no borders in evidence and no sign of human habitation, and not get his perspective forever altered.
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By the living jingo, she was all of a muck of sweat.
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I try to preface everything with "this isn't new." Because most social movements have happened before and I get that. Nothing I'm doing is new.
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thus with a kiss I die
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I had taken some of my solo music into the record label. They didn't really care for the direction I was moving in and I found it really disheartening. They wanted a pop hit, which I understand in terms of making money. I get that. But what they were going to ask of me was something I wasn't prepared to deliver and I felt kind of trapped. I just stopped writing. I just stopped. It was stifling.
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Give us courage for your easy burden, so to live untaxed lives.
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Reading galleys on the subway is the closest the publishing industry comes to having a standardized mating call.
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When you look out the window of a spaceship, you see entire countries, vast swaths of continents. One turn of the head covers what once took thousands of years to traverse at ground level.
