John M. Grunsfeld Quotes
I think it's really a sign of great American strength that we do invest the money we do in technology, in these hard projects, in NASA.
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If my love is without sacrifice, it is selfish. Such a love is barter, for there is exchange of love and devotion in return for something. It is conditional love.
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I thought we had energy out there. I thought the guys were, they played good, they were excited. We were almost dynamite out there today. Just a flicker away from being dynamite.
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Throughout American history many of our social gains and much of our progress toward democracy were made possible by the active intervention of the federal government.
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Congress is so beholden to the money that any solution in the general interest will be frustrated and subverted by the corporate interests who feel they will be damaged by progress, fair play and justice.
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The three theater peeps I would love to dine with are Mel Brooks, because he is so funny; Stephen Sondheim, because he is a god-like genius; and Ethel Merman, to compare notes on fabulous belting.
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I understand acting and I understand actors. I don't really understand the world of celebrity. That's just bizarre. Those sorts of elements I'm at sea with.
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I am a Zionist.
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Hip-hop isn't as complex as a woman is.
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People in their handlings of affairs often fail when they are about to succeed. If one remains as careful at the end as he was at the beginning, there will be no failure.
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Someone once said that you can make the choice between getting old and getting creepy, and I think getting old is the way to go.
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Well, the big products in electronics in the '50s were radio and television. The first big computers were just beginning to come in and represented the most logical market for us to work in.
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The highest percentage of African Americans own their own homes today than ever in our nation's history.
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My own belief is that there is hardly anyone whose sexual life, if it were broadcast, would not fill the world at large with surprise and horror.
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You affect your subconscious mind by verbal repetition.
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We cannot control what emotions or circumstances we will experience next, but we can choose how we will respond to them.
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Emmitt Smith is a great running back. One of the things I like about him along with Edgerrin James is that neither one of them 'show out' when they run a touchdown.
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I want people to treat me as normally as they can. Anybody who doesn't, I feel awkward with.
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Growing up in Dumfries, I got no sun - I spent all my time in my room making records. When I came to America, it made me recognise the benefits of sunlight. Oh, and I also got a good haircut. I used to have a terrible haircut.
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It's as if I were collaborating with myself, revealing my relationship to the material. My hand would make the drawing. Then my mouth would transmit it.
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Peace isn’t a stable condition, not for us. Maybe not for anything that lives.
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For me, writing a short story is much, much harder than writing a novel.
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It is a man's own mind, not his enemy or foe, that lures him to evil ways.
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Would you rather have cheap, subsidized - illegally subsidized - goods dumped into the Wal-Mart and not have a job and not have your wages go up in 15 years, or would you like to pay a little bit more - not much - a little bit more, have a job, and have your wages going up? I think the American people are going to make that choice.
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I think it's really a sign of great American strength that we do invest the money we do in technology, in these hard projects, in NASA.
