John M. Grunsfeld Quotes
I'm absolutely compelled for NASA to send international astronauts to Mars to find out if Mars ever harbored life.
Quotes to Explore
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A physician's physiology has much the same relation to his power of healing as a cleric's divinity has to his power of influencing conduct.
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My attitude is always one of sensuality, aggressive enthusiasm and a kind of outrageousness in my expression.
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I started playing badminton when I was probably of eight years and ever since have been playing. I didn't go to university.
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Each poem in becoming generates the laws by which it is generated: extensions of the laws to other poems never completely take.
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Doing stunt work is risky, but it's something I enjoy.
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There's six of us, and they didn't treat any of us different. They loved us the same. They treated us all the same, and I just want to be like them when I grow up.
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I'm happy with the coach we have. I think any one of the ones I asked them to consider would've been good.
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Acting was just another part of my life, as it still is today. It's 1 of the 10 things I love doing. It's never just been my life. As cheesy as it sounds, all my eggs were never in just one basket. I had a thousand baskets going on.
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I wouldn't do a film like 'The Dirty Picture.' I have a husband and kids, and I won't be able to do justice to such a role. You need a certain mentality and ease to carry such a character.
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Basically, books were a luxury item before the printing press.
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Acting is an aesthetic career, which is annoying.
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Art historians agree that Da Vinci's paintings contain hidden levels of meaning that go well beneath the surface of the paint. Many scholars believe his work intentionally provides clues to a powerful secret... a secret that remains protected to this day by a clandestine brotherhood of which Da Vinci was a member.
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Force-backed humanitarianism, which relies on rational influence over events in other countries, may have been a more feasible project in the bipolar era of the Cold War, with its relatively defined and stable web of alliances and proxies.
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If anything changes shape or takes off without me, I'll come after you and kill you. I'm too type A.
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I cannot believe that I get a tour bus. I've been traveling in a van for 15 years. I used to look at people who were on buses and be like, 'Whoa, man, some day.'
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I want money; I just don't want that money lying around.
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Don't order one for the road, because the road is already laid out.
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I'm not educated about cinema or genres.
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What one reads in the newspaper and what one sees on the street are absolutely not the same.
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My first three games, I was worried too much about walking and hitting people.
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When I started wrestling, I started only to get in shape. I found out that a wrestling school had opened in Ireland, and I wanted to go because I was hanging out with the wrong crowd and I wanted to turn my life around.
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The writing career is not a romantic one. The writer's life may be colorful, but his work itself is rather drab.
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Unrestrained automobility, hedonism, individualism, and conspicuous consumption cannot be sustained because they take more than they give back. A spiritually impoverished world cannot be sustained because meaninglessness, anomie, and despair will corrode the desire to be sustained and the belief that humanity is worth sustaining. But these are the very things that distinguish the modern age from its predecessors, Genuine sustainability, in other words, will come not from superficial changes but from a deeper process akin to humankind growing up to a fuller stature.
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I'm absolutely compelled for NASA to send international astronauts to Mars to find out if Mars ever harbored life.
