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.
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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.
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When I first started out, I was a bad actor.
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Then you had people who wanted to get into comedy just to get a TV deal.
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My mother worked in factories, worked as a domestic, worked in a restaurant, always had a second job.
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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.
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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.
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Every child should at least grow up in family rather than without one.
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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.
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I am not a hound; I am an attention-seeker. Very different animal. My kind of attention requires greater finesse.
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When I emerge from filming I feel slightly out of synch with real life, but it's also a relief.
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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.
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Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go.
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I am an ardent supporter of capitalism - but I also understand that while individuals have inalienable, God-given rights, corporations do not.
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If you saw pictures of me as a kid, you'd laugh because I was always in football kit.
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I think who you are in school really sticks with you.
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Excellence is the best deterrent to racism or sexism.
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I don't believe I could work as effectively at what I do without the support of my wife.
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Disease is the tax which the soul pays for the body, as the tenant pays house-rent for the use of the house.
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I must stick with Chinese language films.
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Spiritual truth should never be sold - those who sell it injure themselves spiritually.
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One of the saddest things I've seen in Amazonian cultures is people who were self-sufficient and happy that now think of themselves as poor and become dissatisfied with their lives. What worries me is outsiders trying to impose their values and materialism on the Piraha.
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The age of 18 seemed the right time to try something different in my life. Moving to the U.K. was a risk, and I was never confident that I could ever make a full-time living being a musician, but I had to try. Initially, I worked as a jazz musician in pubs or with bands.
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Hate will make you cautious, love will make you glow.
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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.
