Shannon Lucid Quotes
You're in charge but don't touch the controls. Recounting what the two Russian cosmonauts tell her each time they leave the Mir space station for a spacewalk.
Quotes to Explore
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I don't watch television. I'm not a TV guy.
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What other dungeon is so dark as one's own heart! What jailer so inexorable as one's self!
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I love sitcoms, and I grew up on sitcoms. That's my tasty junk food.
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It would have been fun to have played Tim Robbins' role in Bull Durham.
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Watching game film motivates me a lot. It shows me what I need to work on and determines the specific workouts I do.
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I've been sober now for a couple of years and I'm taking my sobriety very seriously - one day at a time and I am moving forward in my career.
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Magic is the mysteries into which not everyone is so lucky, or unlucky, as to be initiated. It can be affected by belief, the whims of the unseen, harsh language. And it is not. Supposed. To make. Sense. In fact, I think it's coolest when it doesn't.
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There weren't really any visible men in my family when I was growing up, but of course there have been men in my life, wonderful men.
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I don't really watch all that much television, I have to say, because I'm so intimidated by how many channels there are. I really cannot find my way back to anything. But I'm compulsively addicted to '24.' I love that show.
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Democratic leaders, whose power is ultimately dependent on popular support, are held accountable for failing to improve the lives of their citizens. Therefore, they have a powerful incentive to keep their societies peaceful and prosperous.
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You wish me to tell you why and how God should be loved. My answer is that God himself is the reason he is to be loved.
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I still have my feet on the ground, I just wear better shoes.
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I think the most important thing we as writers can do is figure out how we define what success will mean to us and focus on that.
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The first movie that I saw was Godzilla and I loved it.
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It was a creed written into the founding documents that declared the destiny of a nation.
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We thought that he was going to be - I shouldn't say this at Christmastime - but the next messiah.
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Silence is the only answer you should give to the fools. Where ignorance speaks, intelligence should not give advices.
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It's much harder to detect a lone wolf than it is somebody who's associated with a larger organization who's having planning meetings and making phone calls to people in the organization. And so that is really how the jihad has really developed in the United States.
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I don't spend a lot of time thinking about dying, but I like to think that I've - if it did occur - that I would die peacefully and not make too much of a fuss about it.
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I just think it's so outrageous that fifteen years is the kind of minimum amount of time that any wrongfully convicted person spends in prison.
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I think space, architectural space, is my thing. It's not about facade, elevation, making image, making money. My passion is creating space.
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I always appreciate people's opinions, but sometimes I have to take a step back and remember why I'm writing and what I want to do with it. Shutting out the voices is difficult but it's been good for me.
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The injunction to be nice is used to deflect criticism and stifle the legitimate anger of dissent.
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You're in charge but don't touch the controls. Recounting what the two Russian cosmonauts tell her each time they leave the Mir space station for a spacewalk.
