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.
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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.
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If you worried about falling off the bike, you'd never get on.
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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.
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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.
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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.'
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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.
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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.
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I don't think any media has to feel obliged to show the cover of 'Charlie Hebdo.'
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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.'
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I can't deal with someone flashy. That's so not me.
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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.
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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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Always give your best and try to figure out how to do an even better job.
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My mom taught me to live by the three p's: to always be passionate, persistent, and prepared.
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We must all learn a good lesson - how to live together. That is the new challenge of the new world... learning to co-exist and not co-annihilate.
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I made a few records here and there by default, but I wasn't ever comfortable in that role. I wasn't comfortable on stage. We'll see how it goes this time.
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I have a theory, now - that the whole of the Renaissance was peopled with girls dressed as boys so they could make art.
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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.
