John M. Grunsfeld Quotes
There's no question that if we stay on planet Earth and never leave, that eventually we'll be wiped out.
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We were descended from royalty.
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My greatest aspiration was always to live in the tropics.
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To expect the unexpected shows a thoroughly modern intellect.
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People are always the start for me... animals, when I can get into their heads, gods, supernatural beings, immortals, the dead... these are all people to me.
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Oftentimes, people stay where they are in life simply because of fear. But do you know that fear isn't reality? It's only a thought in your mind.
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Many people have been getting too casual about climbing Everest. I forecast a disaster many times.
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Don't be afraid to take time to learn. It's good to work for other people. I worked for others for 20 years. They paid me to learn.
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If you're doing a prison show, HBO is the absolute best place in the world to be doing that because you're not going to have to do all that, you know, 'Prison Break' stuff where you can't really behave and speak like people do in a maximum-security prison.
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I cry at random things, like a flower, or someone giving me a present, or my sister giving me a nice hug.
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I love to read poetry but I haven't written anything that I'm willing to show anybody.
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My notion of a wife at 40 is that a man should be able to change her, like a bank note, for two 20s.
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But friends invited me to a private screening of Emmanuelle and said I'd learn a few things. But I know all the swear words. I just don't use them. So I declined.
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If I could do what Hilary Mantel does, I would probably do that. She is more intelligent and a better researcher and knows more what she's about than I do.
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It's understood in the newsroom: Air the Trump rallies live and uninterrupted. He may say something crazy; he often does, and it's always great television.
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I've had years of teasing about my red hair, but I definitely think it toughened me up. If you're ginger, you end up pretty quick-witted.
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After all my probing into the human brain, I should still be aware of mysteries and come up with them myself.
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A lot of people will look at you and will fail to see your beauty because you're covered up and they're not used to it. So growing up, I just had to work on my people skills and give people a chance to really know me besides the clothing.
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Connecting dots is not that rewarding of an experience.
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To a great experience one thing is essential - an experiencing nature.
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I suspect I am like most people on the Internet in that I sign up for all sorts of sites and frequently use the same passwords.
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When I became a man, I put away childish things and got more elaborate and expensive childish things from France and Japan.
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When you watch the films that I'm inspired by - from the '60s and '70s - it's not about the special effects: it's about the story; it's about characters and relationships.
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There's no question that if we stay on planet Earth and never leave, that eventually we'll be wiped out.
