John M. Grunsfeld Quotes
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My parents have a strong work ethic, but their attitude to life, their philosophy, is: 'whatever makes you happy.'
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I was born in the small town of Gorizia, Italy, on 31 March, 1934. My father was an electrical engineer at the local telephone company and my mother an elementary school teacher.
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My instinct is to be very controlling.
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I understood early on that the freedom of America is what made our way of life possible and that we should help other people live in freedom, too.
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For an entire populace, change, growth, and spontaneity were dangerous. Acting upon a personal desire, whispering a hidden longing, revealing your true feelings - all the human actions we think of as essential to a character - had be censored by the self lest they be punished by the state.
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The best thing about giving of ourselves is that what we get is always better than what we give. The reaction is greater than the action.
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I never planned to be an actor. It turned out I could make a living doing it.
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The Russians are not as addicted to coffee as the Americans. We should work on that!
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Sometimes you have to take a half step back to take two forward.
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Privacy is not an option, and it shouldn't be the price we accept for just getting on the Internet.
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I am really bothered when I see my friends facing problems back in Iran, but I tell them that not all the doors are shut.
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I cannot step into any day without help. I have a fantastically engaged husband who is very present for his children and our family life. We've got a brilliant nanny, other help from parents-in-law, godparents, friends. Also, I've had incredible women around me in the business.
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When I say 'hip-hop is dead,' basically, America is dead. There is no political voice. Music is dead.
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I will commit not the terrible crime of aiming too low. I will do the work that a failure will not do. I will always let my reach exceed my grasp.
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The more local and settled a culture, the better it stays put, the less the damage. It is the foreigner whose road of excess leads to a desert … a man with a machine and inadequate culture … is a pestilence. He shakes more than he can hold.
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The image of myself which I try to create in my own mind in order that I may love myself is very different from the image which I try to create in the minds of others in order that they may love me.
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Einstein said that 'the most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious.' So why do so many of us try to explain the beauty of music, thus depriving it of its mystery?
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Embracing Donald Trump is embracing demographic death.
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I am a product of the 1950s.
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When I was a kid my primary goal in life was to find a book that was alive. Not alive in the human sense, but like a thing that would send me to a place not otherwise accessible on Earth. This book should have hidden words encrypted beneath the printed ones, so that if I worked hard enough and discovered the code I would somehow end up inside the book, or the book would take on a body and consume me, revealing a secret set of rooms behind the wall in my bedroom, for instance, inside which anything could be.
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Gambling is the great leveller. All men are equal- at cards.
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A public that tries to do without criticism, and asserts that it knows what it wants or likes, brutalizes the arts and loses its cultural memory. Art for art's sake is a retreat from criticism which ends in an impoverishment of civilized life itself.
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Hubble showed us the marvel and majesty of stars being born.
