Chris Hadfield Quotes
Cynicism is the easiest of all reactions, right? But it's also so disappointing and self-defeating.
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That which prematurely arrives at perfection soon perishes.
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Fortune pays you sometimes for the intensity of her favors by the shortness of their duration. She soon tires of carrying any one long on her shoulders.
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I want to move to a world of no nuclear weapons but I want to do that through multilateral disarmament so that we all disarm together.
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I've often been asked to run for office. I have no desire to do that, I would not want my time with the family or the company restricted because of the demands of an elected position.
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Reggie Jackson hit one off me that's still burrowing its way to Los Angeles.
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If you're offended, it's your problem.
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When my body feels good, I feel more energized and alive, and that's sexy. I'm taking care of this body God gave me.
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Growing up, I've enjoyed hunting with my father.
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Yes it was we, are a few years back parted from our record company and took the album that we were making with them and released it independently in the United States had a number one Independent debut in the United States.
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World War II had a very important impact on the development of technology, as a whole.
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The greatest delight which the fields and woods minister is the suggestion of an occult relation.
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You are, at this moment, standing, right in the middle of your own 'acres of diamonds.'
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Honestly, 'Battlestar' is a truly unique thing, and it's hard for anything to step up to that. There aren't often shows that are as good as that.
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One superlatively important effect of wide reading is the enlargement of vocabulary which always accompanies it.
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We have to be able to poke fun at ourselves.
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It's like real life: We don't get a preview of what's coming up, thank God, and we don't build our own character from what we're going to be informed with in the future.
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School choice is the civil rights issue of the 21st century.
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Microsoft, Apple, Facebook all bought huge patent portfolios to further their strategic game. They're doing what I'm doing!
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If gender is eradicated, so too is an important domain of pleasure for many people. And others have a strong sense of self bound up with their genders, so to get rid of gender would be to shatter their self-hood.
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Great art is the contempt of a great man for small art.
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When I was a child, one of my first games was a time machine which I made for my brother - a big box covered in silver and bits of cellophane. I'd close him up in it and joggle him and say, 'We're in Victorian times now... and now we're in Egyptian times, and I can see all these pyramids and pharaohs.'
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The extraordinary thing about Irving Berlin is that he's like the American Mozart! It seems as if his songs were always there. How do you put together songs like 'Always' or 'Cheek To Cheek'? Songs of his are, frankly, perfect.
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When you start suppressing feelings at an early age, it hurts you down the road. Full expression of anger and pain is very important.
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Cynicism is the easiest of all reactions, right? But it's also so disappointing and self-defeating.
