John M. Grunsfeld Quotes
The things I like to do involve a lot of mental focus, a combination of physical and mental challenge. That is what mountain climbing is.
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Simplicity is an acquired taste. Mankind, left free, instinctively complicates life.
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After six years without seeing one, I love just seeing a smile - every smile I see gives me hope.
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I'm not interested in what other people are doing. That's their business.
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I'll have the chance to do a production number on A Capitol Fourth.
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The chasm between rich and poor is becoming larger, and I think it's interesting terrain to talk about and expose.
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I'm just kind of focused on playing the game and try to get better at certain things and wipe the slate clean every night.
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Twitter is all about user experience - the fact that it is so easy, so clean, so unencumbered has won it so many users and fans, for so many different reasons.
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I can bear my own sorrows, but the sorrows arising from the calamities visiting Islam and Muslims have crushed me. I feel each blow delivered to the Muslim world as delivered first to my own heart.
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The laws of morals and the laws of music are the same.
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Stories are the common ground that allow people to connect, despite all our defences and all our differences.
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My goal is people associate November with COPD awareness month as much as they notice October with breast cancer and pink. That'd be a great thing if it happened. The fact that COPD kills more people than breast cancer and diabetes put together should raise some red flags.
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I have people who say, 'You should dress up like this, or you should dress more modest; you should cover up more.' And then, at the other end of the spectrum, you have, like, 'Why are you still wearing your scarf? You're in America, you know.'
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I have never worn dresses by grands couturiers.
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The year I turned 16, I spent the weeks before Christmas dropping hints to my parents about how much I wanted - no, needed - my own transportation.
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With so much evidence of depleting natural resources, toxic waste, climate change, irreparable harm to our food chain and rapidly increasing instances of natural disasters, why do we keep perpetuating the problem? Why do we continue marching at the same alarming beat?
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Winning is very important to me. I wouldn't be happy with anything less. And I work towards my goal.
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You could be going to have supper with someone who happens to be male, and all of a sudden he is your boyfriend of nine months... and I am cheating on my existing boyfriend.
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We are looking to brands for poetry and for spirituality, because we're not getting those things from our communities or from each other.
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Nothing is sadder than love left unheard.
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Show me a good and gracious loser and I'll show you a failure.
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Skating taught me to set a goal and to block out other things and just focus on this one thing.
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In times of biggest change, if you can keep your head and be the smartest, you may get a jump over everybody else. It's a challenge, but it's an opportunity, too.
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The hardest challenge is to be yourself in a world where everyone is trying to make you be somebody else.
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The things I like to do involve a lot of mental focus, a combination of physical and mental challenge. That is what mountain climbing is.
