Sally Ride Quotes
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For every benefit you receive a tax is levied.
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Remain calm, serene, always in command of yourself. You will then find out how easy it is to get along.
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In Morocco, it's possible to see the Atlantic and the Mediterranean at the same time.
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I once went to one of those parties where everyone throws their car keys into the middle of the room. I don't know who got my moped, but I drove that Peugeot for years.
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Sometimes one creates a dynamic impression by saying something, and sometimes one creates as significant an impression by remaining silent.
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The advice I would give to someone is to not take anyone's advice.
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He who improves an opportunity sows a seed which will yield fruit in opportunity for himself and others.
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I try and sit on the fence because as soon as you voice any kind of opinion, people begin to think you're an idiot.
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But I have never wanted to be a singer, because the exterior part of a career, I don't like very much.
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I don't intend to simply go away and write my plays and be a good boy. I intend to remain an independent and political intelligence in my own right.
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Embrace the grease, if any, and look fresh and human. I like to look like a glazed doughnut.
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I had toured so much in the 1960s and 1970s that I wanted a break. I didn't go back touring until 1995.
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The laziest man I ever met put popcorn in his pancakes so they would turn over by themselves.
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As awful as crime can be, it's what happens afterward - the struggling to get out of bed, to put one foot in front of the other - that alters people.
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Sharks are being driven to extinction because people want to eat their fins and their flesh.
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Once in a while, I still witness occasionally sexist behavior and comments from men (which experience has taught me you should always deflect with humour rather than anger). Old habits die hard, after all, and it's unrealistic to expect dinosaurs to fall silent overnight.
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Personally, I always find it especially piquant when cultural conservatives, usually quick to profess their devotion to the Free Market, rail against the success in said market of some product of which they disapprove.
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I have absolutely no interest in playing the young male lead around which a story happens.
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Election is always to sanctification. Where there is no visible fruit of sanctification, we may be sure there is no election.
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The challenge of life, I have found, is to build a resume that doesn't simply tell a story about what you want to be, but it's a story about who you want to be.
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You spend five months filming in outer space and saving the world, and suddenly that kind of family unit and story disappears, and you come crashing back down to Earth, and you have to do your own washing... and most actors are insecure that the last job they did will be their last job ever.
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One might talk about the sanity of the atom the sanity of space the sanity of the electron the sanity of water- For it is all alive and has something comparable to that which we call sanity in ourselves. The only oneness is the oneness of sanity.
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A border collie saved me once when I was pinned under a horse in Colorado. And once when I went through the ice, one of my sled dogs saw me go under, and she got the rest of the team, and they pulled me out of 12 feet of water. I think that dogs offer the only form of unconditional love that's available to humans.
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One thing I probably share with everyone else in the astronaut office is composure.
