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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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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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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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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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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Children are our second chance to have a great parent-child relationship.
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I'm the most competitive person you'll ever meet.
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As Peter Bogdanovich would say of Paper Moon: Ryan's wonderful in it, and he sat there and watched the kid steal the picture.
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The existence of common features in different forms of life indicates some relationship between the different organisms, and according to the concept of evolution, these relations stem from the circumstance that the higher organisms, in the course of millions of years, have gradually evolved from simpler ones.
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When a person is found not guilty, they're found not guilty.
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The song 'What Goes Up' was inspired as I was playing the piano and reminiscing about the Spaceship One launches I witnessed in the Mojave desert. It is an awesome thing to comprehend the magnitude of what a human being dreams and imagines can be realized.
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So here’s a really stupid thing about the world: The trick to looking cool is not caring whether you look cool. So the moment you achieve perfect coolness is simultaneously the moment that you actually, completely don’t care. I didn’t care about the gravitas of that TV show, and the freedom and security and confidence that came with that was a rush. It took me a while to realize that the feeling I was feeling was power.
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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.
