Chris Hadfield Quotes
And then finally, I'm the commander, so I am fundamentally responsible for the lives of the other people on board and the health and longevity of the space station. I need to bring six people back happy, healthy and feeling like they've had the best six months of their life.
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What we know for sure from our work and from others' is that mice have a life span of 1,000 days, dogs have 5,000 days, and we humans have 29,000 days. Recognizing that the duration is limited, and aging is inevitable, focus the attention on enhancing the quality of the days you have.
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I'm Cuban, so I know a lot of people who act like vampires. But wait, vampires have to be invited to your house, so maybe they are nothing like Latinos!
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I can give you a six-word formula for success: Think things through - then follow through.
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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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I've always thought of fat as just a descriptive word.
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As I grew up in that world and saw how much it affected her world and how much it affected our childhood, it made me very aware of politics. Of course, I have my own private feelings and thoughts, but I don't care to share them.
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The only thing documentary filmmakers have to work with, at least the way I make films, is trust. That's been true of everyone from James Carville and George Stephanopoulos to the kids in 'American High' to the soldiers in 'Military Diaries' to Anna Wintour to Dick Cheney.
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I have the necessary lack of tact.
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It's quite absurd to act against a smoke creature that is not there.
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Never trust the artist. Trust the tale. The proper function of the critic is to save the tale from the artist who created it.
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Being married to a psychologist, I realize that I learn more from imperfections.
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I'm vain enough to think that I've made a successful life. I've had everything I've ever wanted. You can't beat that.
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In my experience, scientists are not always the most socially adjusted people, and may have habits and fascinations outside of their work that others might consider odd.
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Moderate doesn't mean that you're a wimp - far from it. It means that you've chosen a path because you believe that's the only way for global harmony and peace.
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When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be.
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The Bible shows the way to go to heaven, not the way the heavens go.
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Acting was just another part of my life, as it still is today. It's 1 of the 10 things I love doing. It's never just been my life. As cheesy as it sounds, all my eggs were never in just one basket. I had a thousand baskets going on.
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The Flash could do everything twice as fast. Except you never saw him think twice as fast or speak twice as fast. Could he do math faster than the other superheroes? Could he compute the tip for the bill twice as fast?
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I walked into a demo session one time, and a guy said, 'I'm thinking kind of like a Trace Adkins thing.' And I looked him right in the eye and said, 'Man, you've got the wrong guy. I'm gonna have to fire myself. You've got to hire somebody else.'
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We've always been in favor of improved wages for workers. When you have a strong middle class, they want to buy more stuff at Costco.
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I think the days of putting your feet up when you're pregnant are long gone. Women who are nine months pregnant now have to work till the bitter end - they don't get to be on TV.
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We must protest and react against this brutal pessimism; we will try to demonstrate that it is founded on nothing.
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I knew rice and gravy would be a hit. Who grew up here and never ate rice and gravy? I'm glad no one ever thought about it before.
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And then finally, I'm the commander, so I am fundamentally responsible for the lives of the other people on board and the health and longevity of the space station. I need to bring six people back happy, healthy and feeling like they've had the best six months of their life.
