John M. Grunsfeld Quotes
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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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He had dabbled in a thing which he had not understood. And had, furthermore, committed that greater sin of thinking that he did understand. And the fact of the matter was that he had just barely understood enough to make the concept work, but had not understood enough to be aware of its consequences.
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I wrote a few unsuccessful screenplays before I wrote 'Before the Devil Knows You're Dead.' I wrote them as television plays that never got made. I'm glad I wrote them - I think it was a good experience.
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As an arts journalist in London, working mainly for the BBC, I interviewed hundreds if not thousands of authors. From them I gleaned a great deal of passing instruction in writing and I observed one fascinating detail: no two writers approach their work - physically - in the same way.
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When I get into trouble at school I'd like to take an invisibility cloak, drape it over me and sneak out the door. Or I'd like to have a 3 headed-dog because then no one would argue with me.
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But the difference between the little pieces and the big pieces - I'm not actually sure which are the little pieces. With some of the big pieces, it's a lot of musical running around, whereas the little pieces, you can say everything you want to say.
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Now it's cool to like Kelly Clarkson, so I'm in the clear, ... She's kind of popular now.
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I see no difference between scientific exploration and human exploration.
