John M. Grunsfeld Quotes
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The thing about markets, and I think the thing people don't understand about that, is markets are not kind, but they're very efficient. So when the marketplace determines an inefficiency in the system, it corrects that, and a market system that's left alone will reward good behavior and punish bad behavior.
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The willingness to be self-critical in England is much greater than the willingness to be self-critical in America.
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I play the father in the scene when Will and Tommy go back to Tommy's old apartment. It was a big mistake. I hope not to be in the next movie I direct.
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I've always looked at filmmaking as a lifestyle. There is no decision of when you go to work. It's a way of life: you're thinking about scripts; you see things and think, 'That could be interesting'... I don't think about my work as, 'Today I'll work on this, this and that.' It just comes to me.
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Dating is a numbers game. What we try to promise is good first dates. Once that first date happens, it's really up to you.
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Even without an economic downturn, women sometimes want to keep their shopping habits to themselves.
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For an introvert his environment is himself and can never be subject to startling or unforeseen change.
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Today, India is a nuclear weapons state.
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The great fun for me is these collaborators. I'm nothing by myself. Being with these people, whether it's the 'Homeland' cast or stage collaborators, they make you everything you are. They make you come to work. They make you be alive.
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Dried porcini add a substantial, deep flavour to otherwise more neutral vegetables. I use them in risottos, mashed roots and winter soups.
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All human beings are also dream beings. Dreaming ties all mankind together.
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When you don't know what the band looks like, it puts the emphasis on thinking and taking the music and message more seriously.
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There's an awareness of fashion in this country, and it's not limited to gay people.
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A new understanding of power is replacing our old understanding of power as the ability to manipulate and control. The old understanding of power has become counterproductive to our evolution. What used to be good medicine has become poisonous. Pursuit of the ability to manipulate and control now produces only violence and destruction.
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Good manners sometimes means simply putting up with other people's bad manners.
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I like the brooding man - a brooding man with a sense of humor.
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Women are called upon to defend every bit of progress we have made against particularly virulent attack. But we must also hold out a vision, put forth a positive agenda of what women need and want and then move forward toward that dream.
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It breaks my heart that my father never knew my children. He should have been around for another 25 years.
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We visited Ravi. We didn't study with him, as such.
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In today's world, most people are working side jobs while waiting to do what they really want to do.
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People are good at intuition, living our lives. What are computers good at? Memory.
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My wife's family lives up in South Carolina, so we go back and forth quite a bit up there.
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Everyone has been really accepting and brought me into the family. I had a lot of fun shooting it Fast 8.
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The best would be to fly in space with family and friends.
