John M. Grunsfeld Quotes
Once we get beyond Mars, which formed from the same stuff as Earth, the likelihood that life is similar to what we find on this planet is very low.
Quotes to Explore
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I think you have to keep a childlike quality to play music or make a record.
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My favorite film is probably the finale - 'Deathly Hallows: Part 2'.
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You know, something happened to me when I became 70. I started to feel a tremendous love for the human race, and life and this planet, the universe, the whole shebang.
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I don't know if I should care for a man who made life easy; I should want someone who made it interesting.
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Excellence is not a skill, it's an attitude.
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As someone who is in awe and grateful every day to be in a country where freedom of the press, free speech and free elections are a way of life, I am wowed, amazed and excited by the opportunity to moderate a 2012 presidential debate.
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I'm not going to be a ten or twelve grand-slam winner. It's not going to happen.
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I think the sidekick makes the number one look good.
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I've been designing since I was 8. I started sketching dresses I could wear when skating. I was always involved in all aspects of skating, not just the technique, the choreography, the music, but the visual aspects, too - what I should wear.
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If you eat something and get fat, you should be responsible for it. I think that is the attitude of the great majority of Americans, that you should be responsible for what you eat.
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Fashion anticipates.
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I've always been quite a happy person, but when I'm low, I'm pretty darn low.
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There are few things in the world as dangerous as sleepwalkers.
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You gotta live life before you can talk about it. Sometimes when things don't work out in life, they work out on stage.
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The Rio Earth Summit in 1992 changed my life completely, turning me into an activist. From the air, you see things you can't see from the ground - you really understand the impact of man, even in a place you know well. My work is meant to convince people we can no longer live like this.
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Everyone is just nicer to prettier people.
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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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I never considered myself a movie star, and I didn't want to become a movie star, because as soon as you do, you throw away that possibility of playing character. You really do. All of a sudden you're just an entity, you know?
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I was a victim of a stereotype. There were only two of us Negro kids in the whole class, and our English teacher was always stressing the importance of rhythm in poetry. Well, everybody knows - except us - that all Negroes have rhythms, so they elected me class poet.
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Now that it's officially summer, here's my advice to parents who want to continue teaching their kids during the next two months and learn something themselves: visit Civil War battlefields.
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The country is now universally recognised as a nation on the move and takes its place amongst the successful economies in the region. The future potential is enormous but the country's destiny is in our hands. The time has come to move from small increments to bold, large initiatives. The time has come to stretch the envelope and set goals which were earlier not seen to be possible. The time has come for performance to be measured and for allocated funds of the government to reach the people for whom they were intended.
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Bodies fall towards the earth as it is in the nature of the earth to attract bodies, just as it is in the nature of water to flow.
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You have to think that the answer - and the right answer - for you and your organization might not be something that's been done before. And it's up to you to discover and work with your team to form and figure out how to do successfully.
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Once we get beyond Mars, which formed from the same stuff as Earth, the likelihood that life is similar to what we find on this planet is very low.
