John M. Grunsfeld Quotes
I have dedicated my life to answering the great scientific questions of our time and to the incredible adventure of space exploration.
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In politics people give you what they think you deserve and deny you what they think you want.
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I don't ever remember a single day of hopelessness. I knew from the history of the labor movement, especially of the black people, that it was an undertaking of great trial. That, live or die, I had to stick with it, and we had to win.
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The more I talk about things, the more I understand myself.
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It's different from Liverpool. Boston seems to be a friendly place.
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My way of relaxing was always doing the opposite and playing the drums, but I need to be able to actually chill.
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'The HoneyLine' is my web site and TV segments that were birthed out of the stark reality that we all need a few people to help navigate this life.
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We are not opposed to public transportation. We are opposed to wasteful boondoggles.
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I've always been extremely physical. I was a gymnast for 15 years, and then I was a dancer for nine, so I was kind of looking for these parts. But we have a tendency in Denmark not to do many action films.
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I like egg white omelets with veggies, or oatmeal with almonds and fruit.
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We started with things like locating ski runs or locating a transmission line corridor or locating a new town or doing a coastal zone plan. We ourselves weren't doing the planning work, but we were doing all the mapping work for the landscape architects and planners who would subsequently incorporate the maps into their actual designs.
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I was getting offers. I had just turned them down. Then I realized I should be grateful that at age 54, people were still offering me film roles.
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I mean normally you have your agent call the other agent and all the agents talk and then finally you get a phone call and you hear some misrepresentation of what someone else had to say.
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The joy is in the getting there. The beginning years of starting your business, the camaraderie when you're in the pit together, are the best years of your life. So rather than being so focused on when you get big and powerful, if you can just get the juice out of that... don't miss it.
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There's a lot of activism that doesn't deal with empowerment, and you have to empower yourself in order to be relevant to any type of struggle.
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The secularists in Turkey haven't underestimated religion, they just made the mistake of believing they could control it with the power of the army alone.
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I don't trust that many people. Just my mother and my wife and a couple of friends. When I trust people, it doesn't end well.
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I'm very involved in the writing on every level.
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A bicycle has transformed my experience of London.
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When I was a kid, I was always going to bed creating a story, and that was the birth of filmmaking for me. I would like going to the dream-state by telling the story to someone else in my mind. That was my imaginary friend; it was an imaginary audience listening to my story.
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At the same time, as you know, unless you are a comic book reader, Daredevil is not a known thing.
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In a democratic society, we politicians have to accept criticism, especially when it is founded.
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I think part of the reason the Tea Party has resonated is that people feel disempowered. The Tea Party says, "You are out of power because of big government." Then some Democrats tend to respond by saying, "No, you're wrong, you're not out of power." It's a sense that doesn't resonate with people's lived experience.
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I was 47 when I got pregnant. I'd been trying for a couple of years and thought it would never happen.
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I have dedicated my life to answering the great scientific questions of our time and to the incredible adventure of space exploration.
