Sally Ride Quotes
When you're getting ready to launch into space, you're sitting on a big explosion waiting to happen.
Quotes to Explore
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When you're not under a 'series regular' contract, and other jobs come up, you try to juggle everything.
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Growing up on a farm was the best. I remember loving that expanse of space. The sky at night was so clear, I could see every star.
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In times of need, God can come to you in a myriad of disguises.
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When you are performing in theater, you feel so connected to your audience. It's exhilarating!
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When you're younger they always try to get you to do every ninny role that's going.
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Never go out to meet trouble. If you just sit still, nine cases out of ten, someone will intercept it before it reaches you.
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There is always an emotional element to anything that you make.
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People watch me, waiting for me to slip up, so my privacy has gone - but that's a price you pay.
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When you run into something interesting, drop everything else and study it.
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When you are the invisible man to the head coach, the only option is to head for the exit.
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For an actor, a Mamet play is definitely on the list of things you hope to be a part of before it's time to exit.
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It's hard for us to really understand the immensity so far of the conquest of space.
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How can you have an educated workforce, how do you equal the economic disparities in this country, if you can't make college more affordable for those who are struggling to make it?
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How you leave the reader is so important - not the climax; I call it the 'exit feeling'.
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What Alexander Graham Bell thought up occupied less space than a flower vase. Now it's so small that I have to search all my pockets to discover I've received a spam text.
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When there's an authentic mystery, as opposed to just a question being asked, that's what makes you lean forward.
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Well, you can't argue with somebody that won't argue back.
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Once you do one bad guy, usually all you get offered is bad guys.
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Sometimes people don't know what is behind the words they use. But an innocent little remark at school can affect you later in life.
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The tongue can conceal the truth, but the eyes never! You're asked an unexpected question, you don't even flinch, it takes just a second to get yourself under control, you know just what you have to say to hide the truth, and you speak very convincingly, and nothing in your face twitches to give you away. But the truth, alas, has been disturbed by the question, and it rises up from the depths of your soul to flicker in your eyes and all is lost.
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Leadership is practiced not so much in words as in attitude and in actions.
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The communitarians may say you've been enjoying too much individual freedom, and that you must give up some of that for the benefit of the community. But they really mean that they want more power over your life - to force you to subsidize, obey and conform to their choices.
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All my cousins steal things. They're just a bunch of thieves. My whole family is like that. You put something down for a second, and they steal it. You never see it again.
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When you're getting ready to launch into space, you're sitting on a big explosion waiting to happen.
