John C. Mather Quotes
My work at NASA has always been about team efforts, and so it's intrinsically about mentoring. I have been blessed with some brilliant colleagues who were able to take on huge challenges without a lot of guidance.
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I am telling you, if you ever wanted an ego boost, leave your job and then, six months later, come back for a day. People will treat you like you're a princess.
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Most actors, if you ask them if they play guitar, they'll say they played guitar for 20 years, but what they really mean is they've owned a guitar for 20 years.
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I am obsessed with the Great Depression and with former showgirls - and the Victorians - the idea of wistful, dark romance.
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Best wine if you're stranded on a deserted island? 1982 Salon Champagne.
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In my novels, there are twelve ancient 'memory tools,' all now lost. Each of the 'Reincarnationist' books revolves around a different tool.
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Beauty is the promise of happiness.
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I think that cancer is a life form that exists out there, and it exists in us. I think even the concept of healing is a spiritual principle that we have to really look at. I think the word itself is something we ought to get rid of, because it implies that there is illness - that there is something wrong.
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I want to be judged by who I am, not by a relationship.
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I hate television. I hate it as much as peanuts. But I can't stop eating peanuts.
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I believe there is little to gain by exchanging opinions with other artists concerning either the ideology of art or technical methods.
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We must exchange the philosophy of excuse - what I am is beyond my control for the philosophy of responsibility.
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Progress might have been alright once, but it has gone on too long.
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In business, you're the Chief Salesman. Create a sense of demand, rather than waiting to have demand.
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Pigeon racing is a lousy, greedy, and often unlawful activity. One thing that it is not is kind to birds.
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Prison has humbled me in a lot of ways, because when you go to prison, I became 11 R 2024 you know, I wasn't Ja Rule the superstar. I wasn't any of that. I was just a regular inmate.
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It pretty much defeats the purpose of bedtime reading if you fall asleep before the kids do. And you tend to wake up with a matchbox stuck on the end of your nose and/or a potty on your head.
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I've always tried to push myself technically and to push myself visually. That's been part of the journey.
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I've made the decision not to do radio anymore.
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I have just been the man in the middle, trying to make sure that we steer the right course.
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Liquid architecture. It's like jazz - you improvise, you work together, you play off each other, you make something, they make something. And I think it's a way of - for me, it's a way of trying to understand the city, and what might happen in the city.
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My dad's family were pretty working class, actually.
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Why don't they just accept that life is sad and cheer up it's not forever.
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Did I love what I was doing, or did I love myself in doing it?
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My work at NASA has always been about team efforts, and so it's intrinsically about mentoring. I have been blessed with some brilliant colleagues who were able to take on huge challenges without a lot of guidance.
