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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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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Liner notes, Music Bank box set, 1999.
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What you can't buy is the loyalty that comes through our dedicated crewmembers.
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'To Kill A Mockingbird' is one of my favourite novels, my mum brought me up reading it, and it never fails to move me.
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Words are small shapes in the gorgeous chaos of the world. ... they bring the world into focus, they corral ideas, they hone thoughts, they paint watercolors of perception.
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I had a very angry father and was disconnected from my family.
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I now make it my earnest prayer that God would have you and the State over which you preside in His holy protection; that He would most graciously be pleased to dispose us all to do justice, to love mercy, and to demean ourselves with that charity, humility, and pacific temper of mind which were the characteristics of the Divine Author of our blessed religion, without an humble imitation of whose example in these things, we can never hope to be a happy nation.
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Hubble showed us the marvel and majesty of stars being born.
