Ellen Ochoa Quotes

I'll tell you, being involved in human space flight, it is an emotional endeavor. I think it brings in the highest highs and the lowest lows.

Ellen Ochoa

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• Nobody is making Americans buy Chinese goods.

  

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• I'm a pretty girl who's a model who doesn't suck as an actress.

  

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• As soon as one project is finished I like to go straight on to something else.

  

  Marc Almond Soft Cell
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• If you worried about falling off the bike, you'd never get on.

  

  Lance Armstrong
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• Lord of the Rings made me realize that I'm not interested in doing anyone else's work.

  

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• Power focuses on self-preservation; principle focuses on making ideas successful.

  

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• I'm from New York, so I'm not a big driver.

  

  Dan Fogler
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• Infinite striving to be the best is man's duty; it is its own reward. Everything else is in God's hands.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
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• Children are apt to live up to what you believe of them.

  

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• When the news is good, the BBC view is: 'Get the government out of the picture quickly, don't allow them to say anything about it.' When the news is bad: 'Let's all dump on the government.'

  

  Iain Duncan Smith
  • Good
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• My dad is Scottish, and he read in the newspaper about the plight of the Scottish Freshwater Mussel, which is a real thing - like, a very real, serious conservation issue. And he's a writer, and he was going to do a film about a Glaswegian gangster, and then I stole the idea and turned it into a romantic comedy.

  

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• In the world of language, or in other words in the world of art and liberal education, religion necessarily appears as mythology or as Bible.

  

  Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
  • World
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• Career is too pompous a word. It was a job, and I have always felt privileged to be paid for what I love doing.

  

  Barbara Stanwyck
  • Job
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  • Always

• I don't think any media has to feel obliged to show the cover of 'Charlie Hebdo.'

  

  Patrick Chappatte
  • Think
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  • Media

• I'm in so many videos. There was a period of about two years where I danced for everyone: Kylie Minogue, Ed Sheeran, Jessie J, Taio Cruz. It got to the point where my fees were double the other girls', and I wouldn't even have to audition. They'd call my agent directly and say, 'We want twigs to come in.'

  

  FKA twigs
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• I had a mind inquiring enough to question world events, as well as the passion fostered by my background to care, but I lacked the emotional maturity to process these things. That made me ripe for Islamist recruitment. Into this ferment came my recruiter, himself straight out of a London medical college.

  

  Maajid Nawaz
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• Government is a health hazard. Governments have killed many more people than cigarettes or unbuckled seat belts ever have.

  

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• I am very excited to be able to work more with young designers and support them.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • Work
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• A clock struck out the hour of twelve, and the bird in the hedgerow was still singing as we marched out to the roadway, and followed our merry pipers home to town.

  

  Patrick MacGill
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• I come from a very big family from every economic background. Some of the streets I talk about, I've actually walked on because I have family from there. Jamaica has so many contradictions.

  

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• I feel great. I had a triple bypass in 1976 and a quadruple bypass in 1984.

  

  Jimmy Piersall
  • Great

• Because trans people are marked as artificial, unnatural, and illegitimate, our bodies and identities are often open to public dissection. Plainly, cisgender folks often take it as their duty to investigate our lives to see if we're real.

  

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• Ultimately, the decision to save the environment must come from the human heart. The key point is a call for a genuine sense of universal responsibility that is based on love, compassion and clear awareness.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Heart
  • Responsibility
  • Decision

• I'll tell you, being involved in human space flight, it is an emotional endeavor. I think it brings in the highest highs and the lowest lows.

  

  Ellen Ochoa
  • Space
  • Emotional