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.
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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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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 use to live on this street when I was a kid where there was an old person retirement home, and all of the old people would listen to that band Herman's Hermits, and they would wear white nursing shoes. And they would throw away stacks of VHS tapes, and I would go through the trash and take them.
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I don't believe anyone should ignore all the fires around you and stand pat and not worry about getting singed.
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I put all my genius into my life; I put only my talent into my works.
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When you are in unrelenting, excruciating and debilitating pain that never goes away for years on end, your life is over.
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I've been almost everywhere. But I've never been to the steppes of Latvia. It's something I've always wanted to do.
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we had made love without love, half-dressed most of the time and always in the dark so we could imagine ourselves as better than we were.
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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.
