Chris Hadfield Quotes
Our three big emergencies are fire, loss of pressurization or contaminated atmosphere. Any of those things in a spaceship are very deadly and time critical. Everybody's trained, but I'm the commander of the ship, and it's up to me to decide.
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It took me a while and a lot of hard times to figure out my purpose, I am so happy with my life. I just want to help make other people happy, too.
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I've been accused of having very long ingredient lists, and I guess there's some truth in that.
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My movies are, more or less, very short. I'm terrified of boring an audience.
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In high school, my English teacher Celeste McMenamin introduced me to the great novels and Shakespeare and taught me how to write. Essays, poetry, critical analysis. Writing is a skill that was painful then but a love of mine now.
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I'm not a performer who will come on stage and tell you everything about my life. It's just not who I am.
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In novels, and American novels in particular, it's not just about redemption, it's about forward movement and healing oneself. Americans are very big on getting better.
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I find it slightly absurd that the only thing we consume more of than water is concrete.
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No one can be saved - in virtue of what he can do. Everyone can be saved - in virtue of what God can do.
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So long as you don't feel life's paltry and a miserable business, the rest doesn't matter, happiness or unhappiness.
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I'm an actor, so I am always scared. You never know if you are on vacation or that you have been retired and they just didn't tell you.
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I'll let the people decide what they think is good taste.
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I would sooner read a time-table or a catalogue than nothing at all. They are much more entertaining than half the novels that are written.
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Being made in the image of God, man was the crown of creation.
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During the crusades all were religious mad, and now all are mad for want of it.
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Modesty seldom resides in a breast that is not enriched with nobler virtues.
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I didn't want to do a zoo show. I didn't want to do a study of someone with mental illness. I just wanted to show someone who was trying to live their life.
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It's really hard not to fall into that trap of insecurity when you're a model. Beforehand, I never looked at myself in a huge monitor with 30 people around it every day.
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Writing, more than any other art, is indexed to the worthiness of the self because it is identified in people's minds with emotion.
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Excuse me, is this England?
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Read books, discover the blues and don't Tweet.
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Credit card companies pay college students generously to stand outside dining halls, dorms, and academic buildings and encourage their fellow students to apply for credit cards.
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I think its time to get a reapportionment process that frankly takes out the incumbency protection and the raw politics of the process.
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I have withstood the power of convictions a long time; and therefore I fear I shall be finally left of God.
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Our three big emergencies are fire, loss of pressurization or contaminated atmosphere. Any of those things in a spaceship are very deadly and time critical. Everybody's trained, but I'm the commander of the ship, and it's up to me to decide.
