Michael J. Massimino Quotes
I was the first person to tweet from space, but now every astronaut tweets from space and does Instagram and Snapchat and Face - they have Facebook going. I think it's more of a personal relationship they have with space now. They see it as more obtainable than me watching my superhero Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin walking on the moon. It's like, there's no way I can do that.
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In 2012, I was over the moon to be there, especially as it was our home Olympics. It was a once-in-a-lifetime experience, and I just wanted to take everything in.
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For a deeper interest in the Moon than I ever felt before.
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But I'm the sort of person who, if certain structures topple, it could all go horribly wrong.
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It's not even race; it's a certain type of person that gets 'Pootie Tang.'
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A lot has been written about Tony Perkins and myself and I figured, Let's get it straight. I had a relationship with Tony for two to three years, but those are only threads in the tapestry of my whole life.
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I've always considered myself a fairly romantic person. I believe in love and falling in love at a young age.
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I wish I was a wealthy person. I wish I could self-fund.
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I am an ordinary person.
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I'm not a party person.
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My mother was pragmatic, focused and extremely, exceedingly practical, and she was the ultimate self-determining person.
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Anyone who knows me knows that I'm way more of a joker than I am a serious person.
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Every uneducated person is a caricature of himself.
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The more one forgets himself - by giving himself to a cause to serve or another person to love - the more human he is.
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For me, I'm not a jealous person. That's just not my thing. You have to have trust in your relationship.
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For me, the highest level of sexual excitement is in a monogamous relationship.
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I don't use Twitter. I'm a serious person.
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The successful landing on the moon, very probably, is the best story.
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I'm an iPod person.
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Poetry is a form of mathematics, a highly rigorous relationship with words.
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While I don't often use the word, the technically precise term for my orientation is bisexual. I believe bisexuality is not a choice, it is a fact. What I have 'chosen' is to be in a gay relationship.
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Thousands of legal and illegal immigrants staged what they called a Day Without Immigrants. Or, as it's known in Utah, Monday.
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There are endless consumer applications, but what excites me is how this can help people. A man who cannot speak communicates with sign language, but the average person doesn't know that language. SixthSense, if equipped with speakers, can recognize the gestures and form the words - it will speak for him.
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Chabad is very important because without Jewish education, Diaspora Jewry would disappear.
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I was the first person to tweet from space, but now every astronaut tweets from space and does Instagram and Snapchat and Face - they have Facebook going. I think it's more of a personal relationship they have with space now. They see it as more obtainable than me watching my superhero Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin walking on the moon. It's like, there's no way I can do that.
