John M. Grunsfeld Quotes
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I was very surprised when I heard that I had been chosen to receive the James Cardinal Gibbons Award.
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Anglo-Saxon kings often used to favour their sister's son to their own - for at least you could guarantee there was your own blood in your sister's son!
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All tastes have the quality of being in some way artificial and invented. The secret of life is to have enough detachment from your tastes and your values to see that they are a little bit absurd.
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Parenthood, like death, is an event for which it is nearly impossible to be prepared. It brings you into a new relationship with the fact of your own existence, a relationship in which one may be rendered helpless.
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I've always refused to play terrorists.
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A far greater factor than abolishing poverty is the deterrent effect of swift and certain consequences: swift arrest, prompt trial, certain penalty and - at some point - finality of judgment.
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In many college classes, laptops depict split screens - notes from a class, and then a range of parallel stimulants: NBA playoff statistics on ESPN.com, a flight home on Expedia, a new flirtation on Facebook.
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The past is what you remember, imagine you remember, convince yourself you remember, or pretend you remember.
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You know, I lose patience really easily; I'd rather shop in the grocery store than in the department store. I can pick an apple like nobody's business.
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Obviously I'm not a role model for impressionable youth.
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I wanted to become an artist because it meant endless possibilities. Art was a way of reinventing myself.
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The Christian notion of the possibility of redemption is incomprehensible to the computer.
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There's nothing better than going to the movies and going into another world, and forgetting about everything that's happening outside.
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I think it's sort of a rite of passage for a British actor to try and get the American accent and have a good crack at doing that.
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The difference between slaves in Roman and Ottoman days and today’s employees is that slaves did not need to flatter their boss.
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12. The world is none other than the mind. The mind is none other than the heart. Therefore the entire story finishes in the heart.
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Women's studies is institutionalized sexism.
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Concrete poetry began for me with the extraordinary sense that the syntax I had been using , the movement of language within me, af a physical level was no longer there. So it had to be replaced with something else with a syntax and movement that would be true of this new feeling.
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pp. 56–57
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The only really respectable Protestants are the fundamentalists. Unfortunately, they are also palpable idiots.
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I'm the worst person to tell anybody how to date.
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I see no difference between scientific exploration and human exploration.
