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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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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I've done a lot worse than jump off piers, son. Like throw a television out the window.
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Putin is a one-horse country.
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For me the music is a vehicle for my lyrics. It's a chance to get some really good words across.
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With sculpting, nothing is cloudy or mystical. It's just about this object, and if you're trying to depict reality, and you do it well, then the outcome is the truth.
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I'm very soft, you know!
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The Anglo-Saxon genius for parliamentary government asserted itself; there was a great deal of talk and no decisive action.
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The office-as-playground trend was made famous by Google and has spread like an infection across the tech industry. Work can't just be work; work has to be fun.
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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.
