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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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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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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pp. 56–57
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If we can forgive what's been done to us... If we can forgive what we've done to others... If we can leave our stories behind. Our being victims and villains. Only then can we maybe rescue the world.
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Nothing. Jail is about nothing. Completely blank.
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I don't think anybody can teach anybody anything. I think that you learn it, but the young writer that is as I say demon-driven and wants to learn and has got to write, he don't know why, he will learn from almost any source that he finds. He will learn from older people who are not writers, he will learn from writers, but he learns it -- you can't teach it.
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Being on the air is and probably always will be the highest point for me.
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Woman's first duty in life is to her dressmaker. What the second duty is no one has yet discovered.
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I want my audience to leave the theatre with positive emotions through this sensorial journey in the world of precious and fragile teenage beauty. And also the idea that the difficulties that we have to go through help us reveal who we really are.
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What matters most with any regimen, whether it's to lose weight or stop drinking or smoking, is your willingness to seek help and your desire to say 'no more.
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I see no difference between scientific exploration and human exploration.
