John M. Grunsfeld Quotes
When I grew up on the south side of Chicago, it was kind of a rough neighborhood, and when my parents saw the prospect of my older sister going to middle school, high school, they decided that we would move to the north side of Chicago, Highland Park, and for me, that was a whole new ballgame.
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A true champion is one who sweats from exhaustion when no one is watching.
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I love being the mayor. I want to be the mayor forever.
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I know having a Jason Bourne all alone in a field firing at bad guys is much more dramatic, but it's not real.
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I like Baudelaire's sentences quite a lot. I read and re-read him very often.
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Studies by several different researchers have shown that the number of lies we're told each day is anywhere from 20 - 200. To many, that will seem shockingly high. Yet it isn't, in light of humans being ill-suited to detect lies. The average human can detect a lie only 54% of the time.
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There are so many figures in our history that did not believe they could make a change, and they did.
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I wasn't interested at all in doing a documentary. I was not a public figure.
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The United States is going to be a rich country, it is going to be prosperous, but it is not going to be able to take the lead in the next phase of global economic development.
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There is a need for the European Union to use all potential we have on defense cooperation.
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I feel like I've exhausted guys and male friendships.
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I have discovered the art of deceiving diplomats. I tell them the truth and they never believe me.
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If you took ISIS' oil, that would not stop them. It's not their only source of revenue. It would be a setback, but it would not stop them.
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Life is not easy in politics.
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When I was a teenager, reading for me was as normal, as unremarkable as eating or breathing. Reading gave flight to my imagination and strengthened my understanding of the world, the society I lived in, and myself. More importantly, reading was fun, a way to live more than one life as I immersed myself in each good book I read.
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We need to get the corporate money out of the political system and return democracy to the people.
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Moderate doesn't mean that you're a wimp - far from it. It means that you've chosen a path because you believe that's the only way for global harmony and peace.
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I don't aim for perfection. But I do want to try and come up with something interesting.
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I wish my teammates, coaches and the entire Lions organization all the best.
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It felt good doing a physical job, and going home each evening feeling like I had really done a day's work.
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Go right straight down the road, to do what is best, and to do it frankly and without evasion.
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I felt pretty good growing up. I didn't feel a lot of prejudice or racism. But I do remember, if there was going to be a movie or a television show with Asian characters, I would go out of my way to avoid them, because they portrayed all Asians as either ridiculously good or ridiculously bad; you know, the whole Charlie Chan-Fu Manchu thing.
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It's okay to wake up and look however you look. You are beautiful regardless.
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My ideal of womanhood has always been the pioneer woman who fought and worked at her husband's side. She bore the children, kept the home fires burning; she was the hub of the family, the planner and the dreamer.
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When I grew up on the south side of Chicago, it was kind of a rough neighborhood, and when my parents saw the prospect of my older sister going to middle school, high school, they decided that we would move to the north side of Chicago, Highland Park, and for me, that was a whole new ballgame.
