John M. Grunsfeld Quotes
I kind of feel like I found my cause in life servicing the Hubble Space Telescope.
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Nobody's life is a bed of roses. We all have crosses to bear, and we all just do our best. I would never claim to have the worst situation. There are many widows, and many people dying of AIDS, many people killed in Lebanon, people starving all over the planet. So we have to count our lucky stars.
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The divorce was the toughest thing in my life. It still hurts.
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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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I try to have a normal life since I have an abnormal job.
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The best lesson I was given is that all of life teaches, especially if we have that expectation.
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We never had books at home, but my dad, seeing how keen I was to read, took me to Islington Library when I was about eight and we pulled out two - a Biggles and a science fiction novel. I never got the ace fighter pilot but fell in love with all things to do with the future and space. Isaac Asimov soon became my guiding star.
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When you meet the love of your life, it's just obvious and natural and easier.
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I feel like somehow I'm living my life mentally in reverse. It's taken me to my 30s to feel relaxed and comfortable in my skin. I think I'm going to be dancing on tables when I'm 50. I really hope I am.
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Life is not a spectator sport. If you're going to spend your whole life in the grandstand just watching what goes on, in my opinion you're wasting your life.
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Notice the times in your life when you go above and beyond simply because you care so much.
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If someone saves your life, you develop a brotherhood, no matter what your race.
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He was a sociologist; he had got into an intellectual muddle early on in life and never managed to get out.
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Yes, I believe the will is very important. It's how I have succeeded in life.
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To let the people know there was life beyond Shirley Dean, we decided to focus on voter registration; each day I set up my card table somewhere in the district, signed people up, and passed out noses.
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I'm a gay man who came out when I was 10 years old, and there's nothing in my life that I'm prouder of.
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I got into journalism not to be a journalist but to try to change American foreign policy. I'm a corny person. I was a dreamer predating my journalistic life, so I got into journalism as a means to try to change the world.
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When I first heard about Twittering, I thought it was the most disgusting thing I'd ever heard of in my life. It's like the devil: the idea that your personal life is there for everybody.
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In life and art, there are distinctions to be made between what an act of cruelty consists of.
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It was the first smile of my life. Of course, that is a ridiculous thing to say; I had been smiled at often, the big man had smiled at me not a minute since. And yet I say: it was the first smile, because it was the first that ever went straight into me like a needle too thin to be seen.
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Successful fiction does not need to be validated by 'real life'; I cringe whenever a writer is asked how much of a novel is 'real'.
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Our culture says ‘live your dream,’ but God calls you to place your dream on His altar and to keep it there at all times. It is good to have hopes and dreams for the future, but we have no rights. There are no certainties. Any dream can become an idol and, if it does, God will bring it down.
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It was just not enough. If we were like NASCAR and had bumpers, I'm sure I would have won the race.
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I kind of feel like I found my cause in life servicing the Hubble Space Telescope.
