John M. Grunsfeld Quotes

As a young boy growing up on the South Side of Chicago, I was inspired by the nascent space age.

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• The 1992 crisis proved that the existing system was unstable. Not moving forward to the euro would have set up Europe for even more disruptive crises.

  

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• Occupy Wall Street means making Wall Street and the corporate power elite understand that the people affected by the binge of unregulated greed are not going away, and they are not going to give up.

  

  Dana Spiotta
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• On 'Rogue One,' we had these sets with tiny little buttons that would light up when you pressed them, and screens full of graphics, and it really felt like you were driving a spaceship. The level of detail; you'll be two meters away from where the action is, but there'll be a little detail there just in case the camera catches it.

  

  Felicity Jones
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• Honey, God loves everybody. It's human beings who mess things up.

  

  Tammy Faye Bakker
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• I was brought up in a very poor and very violent household. I spent much of my childhood being afraid.

  

  Patrick Stewart
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• I live a half mile from the San Andreas fault - a fact that bubbles up into my consciousness every time some other part of the world experiences an earthquake. I sometimes wonder whether this subterranean sense of impending disaster is at least partly responsible for Silicon Valley's feverish, get-it-done-yesterday work norms.

  

  Gary Hamel
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• People always come up to me now and say, 'Watchmen' is the best superhero movie ever made.' I'm always saying 'That's super cool. That's nice of you to say.' But it happens now, more and more and more than it did when it first came out.

  

  Zack Snyder
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• Bad company is like a nail driven into a post, which, after the first and second blow, may be drawn out with little difficulty; but being once driven up to the head, the pincers cannot take hold to draw it out, but which can only be done by the destruction of the wood.

  

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• Having been on tour in countries that are extremely eco-friendly, we automatically end up doing the things that normal people do in other countries.

  

  Kaki King
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• The more people pointed at me in scorn the more stubborn I got and when they began calling me the Bad Girl of West Seattle High, I tried to live up to it.

  

  Frances Farmer
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• Children are educated by what the grown-up is and not by his talk.

  

  Carl Jung
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• The Russo brothers are the best people ever, and they cast me in 'Happy Endings.' I did text Joe Russo to say, 'I don't think my character dies, so if you need a local news cameraman to show up in 'Captain America 2'... I know it doesn't make sense, but just hear me out on this!' He was really cool about it and turned me down right away.

  

  Adam Pally
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• We who grew up with 'drop and cover' drills know all too well what wonders science can bring us, and we like to see the guy in the white lab coat suffer a little. Or a lot.

  

  Kage Baker
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• It is enough for a poet to be the guilty conscience of his age.

  

  Saint-John Perse
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• I'm all about small towns. I think it's a great place to grow up.

  

  Kacey Musgraves
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• I like to dress up every day, so I think fashion is an everyday process.

  

  Karisma Kapoor
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• I don't believe in a lot of schmoozing and buttering up. Not that you don't become friends in work. But I think it's a misconception that you have to do a lot of hanging before you work.

  

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• My stand-up is quite good now, people say. It's just like a big conversation each time. Every gig is a rehearsal.

  

  Eddie Izzard
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• I came back from my ACL injury and won MVP. So, what's a groin? What's an adductor? That's how I look at things. I feel like if you just continue to take care of your body, working out, making sure you're in shape and you stay on top of your game, you can play as long as you want.

  

  Adrian Peterson
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• I don't wear leather, wool, or silk.

  

  Alexandra Paul

• Yes, I have made a woman cry.

  

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• The highest of the world's mountains, it seems, has to make but a single gesture of magnificence to be the lord of all, vast in unchallenged and isolated supremacy.

  

  George Leigh Mallory
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• Life! Life! Don't let us go to life for our fulfillment or our experience. It is a thing narrowed by circumstances, incoherent in its utterance, and without that fine correspondence of form and spirit which is the only thing that can satisfy the artistic.

  

  Oscar Wilde
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• As a young boy growing up on the South Side of Chicago, I was inspired by the nascent space age.

  

  John M. Grunsfeld
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