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 feel very strongly that you shouldn't mix your emotions with business. When it comes to my emotions, I certainly don't mix them with my business.
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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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If I had been told to get out of the street as a teenager, there would have been a distinct possibility that I might have smarted off. But, I wouldn't have expected to be shot.
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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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I think only a batsman will be able to tell you about the goose bumps he gets after hitting a perfect cover drive. I'm one of them.
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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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Or you'd just passed by one of those puddles in the street with gasoline rainbows in them. I mean you'd be different in some way—I can't explain what I mean. And even if I could, I'm not sure I'd feel like it.
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One of the problems in modern comics is that they keep referencing themselves endlessly.
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My father was a logger. He cut timber and hauled it out of the woods and had a sawmill. They sawed it into lumber. And, you know, the mines needed things they call timbers and collars and so forth, and they used collars on the railroad track that they put the rails on. And he - that was his occupation, just a sawmill man and a logger.
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When I'm up there, and I know the show's coming to a close, in my head I'm saying to myself, Oh man, you gotta get off and be a normal person again. That's what I don't like so much.
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It is not in the nature of true greatness to be exclusive and arrogant.
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We need to move off the planet. And Mars is the next best place.
