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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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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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.
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During the crusades all were religious mad, and now all are mad for want of it.
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The hard-core Left loves ridiculing Christians who believe scripture that says, 'God created the heaven and the earth.' They say that it's anti-science to believe that an almighty God would do such a thing.
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Success is so bad for everybody, period. Especially a certain kind of success, when people practically give up their identity. They forget who they are, how they are.
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I could hum Beatles songs before I could talk - not very well, but sort of.
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Church is the only place where someone speaks to me and I do not have to answer back.
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I love being a part of the country-music community.
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Our future is only limited by our commitment to keep the momentum going. Now that television has been set free from all constraints - including time, place, and all previous definitions - what comes next?
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The colossal misunderstanding of our time is the assumption that insight will work with people who are unmotivated to change. Communication does not depend on syntax, or eloquence, or rhetoric, or articulation but on the emotional context in which the message is being heard. People can only hear you when they are moving toward you, and they are not likely to when your words are pursuing them. Even the choicest words lose their power when they are used to overpower. Attitudes are the real figures of speech.
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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.
