John M. Grunsfeld Quotes
I can't imagine anywhere I'd rather be than outside the space shuttle in my space suit next to the Hubble Space Telescope.
Quotes to Explore
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For every benefit you receive a tax is levied.
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I knew I would read all kinds of books and try to get at what it is that makes good writers good. But I made no promises that I would write books a lot of people would like to read.
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Remain calm, serene, always in command of yourself. You will then find out how easy it is to get along.
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Listen, I'm not a politician. I'm not a news reporter. I make music, and I act.
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Palestinian propagandists can say and do anything they please without concern for the truth, in the belief that if they repeat it often enough it will simply become the truth.
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I once went to one of those parties where everyone throws their car keys into the middle of the room. I don't know who got my moped, but I drove that Peugeot for years.
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Oaths are but words, and words are but wind.
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Newt Gingrich seldom misses a chance to note that he is a historian.
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And for the first time in a long time, I'm playing along somebody that has that same energy and fire and plays pretty much the same way I do. So, that was just nice to say.
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He who improves an opportunity sows a seed which will yield fruit in opportunity for himself and others.
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I think comedy is one of the hardest things to do.
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This is where you see the truth of entertainment, because it is not edited. You see it on stage as it is happening. Even if we fall down or forget our words, it's a part of live entertainment.
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I just butcher a book. Everything I underline I assume is important to me.
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I believe that a man can only be useful to his country when he can look at it clearly.
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As awful as crime can be, it's what happens afterward - the struggling to get out of bed, to put one foot in front of the other - that alters people.
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Sharks are being driven to extinction because people want to eat their fins and their flesh.
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Any poet, if he is to survive beyond his 25th year, must alter; he must seek new literary influences; he will have different emotions to express.
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I don't regret the passing of time. I try to live in the present, which should mean my life's full.
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When we contemplate the whole globe as one great dewdrop, striped and dotted with continents and islands, flying through space with other stars all singing and shining together as one, the whole universe appears as an infinite storm of beauty.
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I don't focus on the scale. I focus on doing my job. The team staff and the program I've been working on, they've been touching on that, but I don't focus on the scale.
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When I wrote 'The Girl on the Train,' nobody knew who I was, and that's quite a comfortable position to be writing in.
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'Why Did I Get Married?' did so well because it gave some real perspective on the realities of love.
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Sharpe had been turbulent, ambitious, but one day, Hogan supposed, that restlessness would have found satisfaction. Then, curiously, Hogan found himself resenting Sharpe, resenting him because he had been killed and was thus denying his friendship to those who still lived.
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I can't imagine anywhere I'd rather be than outside the space shuttle in my space suit next to the Hubble Space Telescope.
