John M. Grunsfeld Quotes
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Music will always be my greatest passion.
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A lot of writers, especially crime writers, have an image that we think we're trying to keep up with. You've got to be seen as dark and slightly dangerous. But I'm not like that and I've realised that I don't need to put that on. People will buy the books whether they see a photo of you dressed in black or not.
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I procrastinate all morning. That's when I get my office work done and answer e-mails and see what's on the Internet and do laundry.
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I don't think that my work is very moralistic - at least, I try to avoid that. I grew up with that sermonising tendency, and I don't think visual work operates like that.
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Death just comes, not happiness. Because when you're trying to find happiness, you're trying to navigate a very, very murky minefield of distractions, of disappointments, of deceptions. That's why you have to work on happiness.
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In the present imperialistic milieu there can be no wars of national self-defense.
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I had given up on acting because I would go for auditions every day, but nothing would happen.
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The blues is the foundation for a lot of things. Things have branched off. It's cool how music grows, but the foundation is always there. It's not going anywhere. The blues is always going to be relevant.
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We don't want to repeat the unintended consequences that surfaced following the NAFTA agreement.
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To wait for hours to buy a train ticket or to see a doctor is accepted as a normal way of doing things. Privacy is not a great preoccupation, and this is a very crowded country.
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At a certain moment, when I started doing my own shows, I felt it would be really interesting to know what is the history of my profession. I realized that there was no book, which was kind of a shock.
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I'm a good girl, you know? But I'm from the South, and there are some powerful women down there, and very theatrical.
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The rules of drama are very much separate from the properties of life. I think that's especially true of Shakespeare.
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Any glamorous moment you might mistake me for having is always pretend.
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To have a part that is written for you certainly helps an actor.
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Vertical intergration is an organizational response to the contracting difficulties that attend intermediate product markets where trades that are supported by transaction-specific assets are exposed to hazard.
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You can’t contain an organization that is running roughshod through that much territory, causing that much havoc, displacing that many people, killing that many innocents, enslaving that many women. The goal has to be to dismantle them.
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When is the last time Nancy Pelosi tried to pass ANYTHING to help save the middle class money? UH NEVER. Says the American people.com
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Be thankful for your loved ones and tell them you love them.
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Daring to set boundaries is about having the courage to love ourselves, even when we risk disappointing others.
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The year is made up of minutes. Let these be watched as having been dedicated to God. It is in the sanctification of the small that hallowing of the large is secure.
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Usually when festivals are really huge it's kind of weird. It's totally fun for me and my band to play in front of a crowd that doesn't necessarily know who we are, but festivals get pretty impersonal when they get super large.
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The fundamental flaw of vulgar thought lies in the fact that it wishes to content itself with motionless imprints of a reality which consists of eternal motion.
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The Martian atmosphere is very thin. It's like our atmosphere at 100,000 feet.
