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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I'm creative in my own life. I'm creative when I step out the door. I'm creative when I pick up a glass. Do you know what I mean? I'm one of those dreadful people who probably should have been born at the end of the 19th century and been in cafe society. That would have suited me fine.
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A boatload of government money is indeed a gift. Unless, I suppose, you're one of the saps paying for the cargo.
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If you find a path with no obstacles, it probably doesn't lead anywhere.
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I didn't get paid for performances most of my life. If I did, I would be billionaire now, and I'm not.
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I am hopeful that the concept of 'cultural appropriation' is a passing fad: people with different backgrounds rubbing up against each other and exchanging ideas and practices is self-evidently one of the most productive, fascinating aspects of modern urban life.
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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.
