John M. Grunsfeld Quotes
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Every man must wear out at least one pair of fools shoes.
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I've gotten this advice at different times, and it distills down to one word: purpose. Why are you here? When you start to get distracted by thoughts such as 'Do I fit in? Does this person like me?' - remember why you're there and what you want to accomplish.
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Part of my job as Children's Laureate is to visit schools and talk about my love of books and stories and encourage them all to do it as well - to read, to write, to never be afraid of their own voice. Because we all have something to say.
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Cruelty is not a literary value.
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I have severe claustrophobia, and I panic if I'm more than six feet above ground.
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My ideal relaxation is working on upholstry. I spend hours in junk shops buying furniture. I do all the upholstery work myself, and it's like therapy.
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Whenever there is fear, you will get wrong figures.
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My wife and I ran through 'Justified' in, like, a day. And that is such a funny, amazing show.
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The 21st-century curator works in a supremely globalised reality.
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Divorced from the cosmos, from nature, from society and from each other, we have become fractured and fragmented.
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If you must be mad, be it not for the things of the world. Be mad with the love of God.
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There are no secrets about the world of nature. There are secrets about the thoughts and intentions of men.
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Omne aevum curae; cunctis sua displicet aetas.
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There is a spirit and a need and a man at the beginning of every great human advance. Every one of these must be right for that particular moment of history, or nothing happens.
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The technical obstacles of painting perhaps dictate this form. It derives also from the limitations of personality, and such may be the simplifications that I have attempted.
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For us, forgetting was never an option. Remembering is a noble and necessary act. The call of memory, the call to memory, reaches us from the very dawn of history. No commandment figures so frequently, so insistently, in the Bible. It is incumbent upon us to remember the good we have received, and the evil we have suffered.
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Mi pobreza no es total: falto yo.
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Everyone needs some time to themselves.
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Focus on something that you have a passion for and hone that skill; it will make you feel confident about your ability.
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I had a real good thing going for me, and I got sidetracked. It doesn't have to be that way. It doesn't have to be drugs. It doesn't have to be alcohol. That part of my life is over.
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We have an extreme rightwing government in this country, although it's called the Labour government.
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Iago is one of the most liked characters in Shakespeare's canon, and he's the most evil, most extraordinarily manipulative person in history. He says the worst, most politically incorrect things, even for the time the play is set in - and yet audiences adore that character.
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Don't apologize for asking for what you deserve.
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We need to move off the planet. And Mars is the next best place.
