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.'
Sally Hawkins -
My instinct is to be very controlling.
Gary Kemp Spandau Ballet -
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.
Dana Perino -
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.
Adam Johnson -
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.
Orison Swett Marden -
I never planned to be an actor. It turned out I could make a living doing it.
Wallace Shawn
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The Russians are not as addicted to coffee as the Americans. We should work on that!
Maelle Gavet -
Sometimes you have to take a half step back to take two forward.
Vince McMahon -
Privacy is not an option, and it shouldn't be the price we accept for just getting on the Internet.
Gary Kovacs -
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.
Tamsin Greig -
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.
Og Mandino -
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.
Wendell Berry
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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.
W. H. Auden -
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?
Leonard Bernstein -
Embracing Donald Trump is embracing demographic death.
Lindsey Graham -
It is my conviction that secrets are more costly in the long run than honesty.
Kathryn Harrison -
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.
Jane Smiley -
Your email inbox is a bit like a Las Vegas roulette machine. You know, you just check it and check it, and every once in a while there's some juicy little tidbit of reward, like the three quarters that pop down on a one-armed bandit. And that keeps you coming back for more.
Douglas Rushkoff
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I was an office secretary for a long time. A good secretary.
Laurie Metcalf -
At a certain point, if you work really hard and you get good and people like your work, you do deserve the fame - but you shouldn't take it for granted.
Jon Lovitz -
There's a wide range of motivations that led folks to patrol the border, to be part of Arizona Border Recon.
Matthew Heineman -
I worked in this bar called the Raincheck Room in the '60s; it used to be over on Santa Monica Boulevard, and, y'know, it was a pretty hip place. Lots of actors hung out there.
Alex Rocco -
Hubble showed us the marvel and majesty of stars being born.
John M. Grunsfeld