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 try and find fun activities like mountain biking, hiking, or water sports for a workout rather than pushing weight in the gym.
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I'm not interested in what other people are doing. That's their business.
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The main thing is to make history, not to write it.
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I'll have the chance to do a production number on A Capitol Fourth.
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China is a country, still, of great contrast. While hundreds of millions of people are part of the middle class and yearn for things made in America - American brands, movies, music - there are other hundreds of millions of people throughout China who are living on the equivalent of one U.S. dollar a day.
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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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When you're dealing with someone who only has a pair of underpants on, if you take his underpants off, he has nothing left - he's naked. You're better off trying to find him a pair of trousers to complement him rather than change him.
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Dating someone on the opposite end of the happy spectrum teaches you an incredible amount of patience.
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The revolution is carried out by means of one's thought, not through one's family background.
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You get so brainwashed. You're on the road 300 days a year, and that's why guys get so messed up. This life becomes a part of them. It's not real, but some guys who are still in the business think it is.
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What makes a good villain is someone who doesn't just challenge the hero but comes organically out of that character's history and circumstances.
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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.
