Ellen Ochoa Quotes
I'm honored to be recognized among generations of astronauts who were at the forefront of exploring our universe for the benefit of humankind.

Quotes to Explore
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Politics and power is a realm of relative influence.
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Be a good-looking corpse. Leave a good-looking tattoo.
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Creating things sometimes is difficult.
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I don't like to be out of my comfort zone, which is about a half an inch wide.
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You get to a point where you really can't manage more artists, because representing artists takes a lot of time.
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Initially, it would bother me when filmmakers, script writers, dialogue writers and choreographers tried to recreate a bit of my dad though me.
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Without a doubt, priority No. 1 is always my family. Whether it's my children or my husband or even my girlfriends who are also my family, I put them first no matter what. And it makes it easy to then juggle everything else because it's never a question.
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I don't get far enough into a boring book to hate it.
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I dedicated my 20s, my passion and energy to the name 'Rain.' I always did my best, and I thought if I did, it would eventually show, and even if it didn't turn out well, I wouldn't have any regrets.
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Small lending institutions lack the capability of their larger counterparts to hire the additional manpower necessary to deal with the hundreds of additional regulations created by Dodd-Frank.
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As soon as I start reading, drawing comes to me more easily. I find I work in my sketchbooks more. But if I'm working on a new show, my reading completely stops except when I'm on a plane. I take a stack of New Yorkers with me. I feel awful about those stacks of New Yorkers.
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In an unconstitutional partnership with the state, the church can impose the most irresistible, if covert, controls conceivable.
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I never had little brothers, so I was totally not used to hearing a lot of cussing at a young age! I learned what 'pull my finger' meant the hard way.
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Hemingway's minimalism is based on the psychological mechanics of repression. An echo of his approach can be detected in a favorite trope of 1980s minimalists: a pattern of reference to dire secrets and hidden wounds these authors didn't realize they were supposed to have imagined.
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It's called 'I Wanna Thank You,' and I'm encouraging everybody out there to blog, Tweet, Facebook, anything about it. Let's sign a petition. The petition is called 'Busta Rhymes Make 'I Wanna Thank You' Your First Single.'
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From even the greatest of horrors, irony is seldom absent.
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I'm still Christian. I was not raised in a Christian church to hate people. I was taught to love people and accept people. I know what I believe.
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We remained in Texas leading a quiet home life until 1889.
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We are like butterflies who flutter for a day and think it's forever.
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Much of the messy advertising you see on television today is the product of committees. Committees can criticize advertisements, but they should never be allowed to create them.
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It turns out that cholera is new to Haiti. It was inadvertently introduced by a group of U.N. peacekeepers stationed in central Haiti who had come from South Asia where it is endemic.
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I don't like producing. It's a lot of meetings you sit through that amount to nothing.
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I'm honored to be recognized among generations of astronauts who were at the forefront of exploring our universe for the benefit of humankind.