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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It is my conviction that secrets are more costly in the long run than honesty.
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There is a sociology of horses, as well as a psychology. It is most evident in the world of horse racing, where many horses are gathered together, where year after year, decade after decade, they do the same, rather simple thing - run in races and try to win.
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There are plagues, and there are victims, and it's the duty of good men not to join forces with the plagues.
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Surely the day will come when color means nothing more than the skin tone, when religion is seen uniquely as a way to speak one's soul, when birth places have the weight of a throw of the dice and all men are born free, when understanding breeds love and brotherhood.
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Hubble showed us the marvel and majesty of stars being born.
