John M. Grunsfeld Quotes
There's a perspective that I've gained as an astronaut that I didn't get from my science activities. In my science activities, I learned by the seat of my pants. Spending 17 years as an astronaut, I learned the NASA formalism of systems engineering as if my life depended on it. Literally.
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About the most exciting thing a baby can do is burp - I've spent hours of my life holding a baby on my shoulder and patting its back, trying to loosen up a burp. Burping was probably invented to give the father something positive to do, since our chests are not equipped to allow us to do much else.
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There are very few fundamental shifts in global infrastructure that can happen in our life times. The financial infrastructure is one of them, and the Blockchain is changing the way we think about the transfer of value.
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Let me tell you something - being thought of as a beautiful woman has spared me nothing in life. No heartache, no trouble. Love has been difficult. Beauty is essentially meaningless and it is always transitory.
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The Israeli government has already established a fund to encourage young Arab women, specifically from the Bedouin community, to study engineering. We are funding their university studies and providing them with mentors who assist them with their studies and the job placement process.
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Life histories tell you just about everything you need to know about an animal.
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I think one's history and past is important at a certain time in your life, especially as an artist, just to try to hone in on that.
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I think the tennis is only a game. You can lose. You can win. After that? In life, there are much more important things than tennis.
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I have no regrets. I wouldn't have lived my life the way I did if I was going to worry about what people were going to say.
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I'm very interested in science.
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I don't know what you guys say, but at home, life is way different from baseball.
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There's more to life than cheek bones.
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I've been angst-ridden all my life, but finally I'm in a place where things don't matter so much.
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So they've actually - it's not that her character is a singer, but she had ambition to do that at an earlier time in her life. So I've actually sung two or three times now on the show.
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After all, life hasn't much to offer except youth, and I suppose for older people, the love of youth in others.
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I'm never going to apologize for having a lot of guy friends, and I always have. That happens, and I'm not going to live my life where I'm not going to go out and have a coffee or lunch with my guy friends.
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It was just this interesting, my first, the first time you hear your child in any way criticise you. It's the worst review of your life and it's really relieving to find out that they don't know what they're saying.
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My first encounter with Marx's writings came very early in life, as a result of the strange times I grew up in, with Greece exiting the nightmare of the neofascist dictatorship of 1967-74.
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Yes, I believe the will is very important. It's how I have succeeded in life.
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I have been touched by extreme violence, and I have been robbed of the life I always wanted by someone who chose to do evil.
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We have grown a lot as a couple. 'Nach Baliye' has made us understand each other in a way that now there is nothing missing in our relationship. We know each other fully.
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I met Sonny after (Blind Boy) Fuller died, and me and Sonny played in the streets like everybody else.
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If I am correct, the use of a product based on modelessness and monoty would soon become so habitual as to be nearly addictive, leading to a user population devoted to and loyal to the product.
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I'm a technophobe. I can't crack the iPhone, and the extent of my multitasking is being able to talk while I make a drink.
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There's a perspective that I've gained as an astronaut that I didn't get from my science activities. In my science activities, I learned by the seat of my pants. Spending 17 years as an astronaut, I learned the NASA formalism of systems engineering as if my life depended on it. Literally.
