Ellen Ochoa Quotes
These robotic arms, provided by Canada, have been invaluable in allowing us to build, maintain, and repair space structures, and I've been very fortunate to have gotten to operate them.
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When you encounter difficulties and contradictions, do not try to break them, but bend them with gentleness and time.
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I've always loved to help people, young people in particular.
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I don't have a wallet. I carry my driver's license and a couple of credit cards in my phone. That, and a money clip.
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I write fast. But it takes me a while to get going. It's very important for me to see my whole plot. I have to see the end first because I like a surprise in the end. Which is why I let characters and plot gestate in my mind.
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I grew up in the '80s. I was a kid, but all my favorite movies came out of that period.
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I'm still number one and I just recently won a major tournament ahead of my toughest rivals so I think I had a few years ahead of me if I decided to stay.
Garry Kasparov
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Forgiving the men who killed my parents and brother was a process, a journey into deeper and deeper prayer.
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If you look at the very best presidents, the most effective presidents, they were always decent salespeople. Ronald Reagan was an extremely effective salesman, very tuned to the people he was selling to, very clear in what he was selling, very resilient and buoyant.
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What we call the beginning is often the end. And to make an end is to make a beginning. The end is where we start from.
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You need tremendous spirituality to stop yourself falling into the abyss.
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Every child should at least grow up in family rather than without one.
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You can't write a story about a mental hospital in the United States without facing the grand example of 'Cuckoo's Nest.'
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You know what, I'm a big coward and I'm really afraid of live audiences.
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I can make them voting machines sing Home Sweet Home.
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In this case, the particle formed has correspondingly less energy, whereas the product nucleus passes into the ground state with emission of the quantity of energy saved as gamma radiation.
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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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It's my dream, my goal to be good at Olympics, anywhere they are in the world.
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You wouldn't know it, but I'm no good at recognising people; I have face blindness.
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I think, as a writer, sometimes you do worry, 'Am I just writing, or am I putting the burden of African-Americans on my shoulder and carrying it?' But if we just write the stories that we're supposed to write, that's when we have the biggest impact.
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Once you digitize data, you can actually analyze patterns and relationships in geographic space - relationships between certain health patterns and air or water pollution, between plants and climate, soils, landscape.
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When I left NASA, I was looking at how you could use space technologies for developing countries' work.
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If you ask me what's harder, being famous or flying to space, I'd say fame is much harder.
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These robotic arms, provided by Canada, have been invaluable in allowing us to build, maintain, and repair space structures, and I've been very fortunate to have gotten to operate them.
