Chris Hadfield Quotes
It was remarkable to see from space how predictable people are. Our homes and towns are almost all in places with moderate temperatures, and they generally have the same shape - a thinly occupied outer blob of suburb surrounding a densely populated core, all based around a ready source of water.
Quotes to Explore
-
Deconstructing the concept of race not only conflicts with people's tendency to classify and build family histories according to common descent but also ignores the work of biologists studying non-human species.
-
When I first started out, I was a bad actor.
-
Then you had people who wanted to get into comedy just to get a TV deal.
-
My mother worked in factories, worked as a domestic, worked in a restaurant, always had a second job.
-
I was hired because I am Zsa Zsa Gabor, but when I go to work, directors try to force their methods on me. John Huston's intense, precise directions tortured me.
-
Gun owners and non-gun owners alike agree on expanding background checks, making gun trafficking a serious crime with stiff penalties, making it illegal for all stalkers and all domestic abusers to buy guns, and expanding mental health resources so the mentally ill find it easier to receive treatment than to buy firearms.
-
Every child should at least grow up in family rather than without one.
-
I had two things I could do: I could run over you, and I could put a good stiff arm on you. That was about it.
-
I am not a hound; I am an attention-seeker. Very different animal. My kind of attention requires greater finesse.
-
When I emerge from filming I feel slightly out of synch with real life, but it's also a relief.
-
I don't need somebody behind a desk to tell me what a marketing survey says is funny. I got 3 million miles and 70,000 tickets sold, telling me that I know how to make people laugh.
-
Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go.
-
I'm focused on getting to a place where we can prove that journalism can make good money on the web.
-
I am an ardent supporter of capitalism - but I also understand that while individuals have inalienable, God-given rights, corporations do not.
-
If you saw pictures of me as a kid, you'd laugh because I was always in football kit.
-
I found the happiest woman in America is between 50 and 55, is happily married, has made significant progress in her career, and lives in a community where she can easily exercise outside. But the most important single thing was she had her last child before she was 35.
-
I think who you are in school really sticks with you.
-
Excellence is the best deterrent to racism or sexism.
-
'Somewhere in Time' is in the top-five cheesiest movies ever made. It's super melodrama.
-
Human rights are universal and indivisible. Human freedom is also indivisible: if it is denied to anyone in the world, it is therefore denied, indirectly, to all people. This is why we cannot remain silent in the face of evil or violence; silence merely encourages them.
-
While on top of Everest, I looked across the valley towards the great peak Makalu and mentally worked out a route about how it could be climbed. It showed me that even though I was standing on top of the world, it wasn't the end of everything. I was still looking beyond to other interesting challenges.
-
Home is where one starts from.
-
I'm always in awe of people who are artists in their fields - people who understand that simply by taking ideas and translating them into reality, they've created value in the world.
-
It was remarkable to see from space how predictable people are. Our homes and towns are almost all in places with moderate temperatures, and they generally have the same shape - a thinly occupied outer blob of suburb surrounding a densely populated core, all based around a ready source of water.
