Michael J. Massimino Quotes
My odyssey to become an astronaut kind of started in grad school, and I was working, up at MIT, in space robotics-related work; human and robot working together.
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I didn't know I wanted to act until it was around 21. I had just come back to Los Angeles after two and half years of traveling and working as a dancer and singer and was looking for a new performing art to study. I started taking acting classes and fell in love.
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You got me: I do Pilates. I love Pilates because we do very specific training in soccer for the same six or seven muscles, but we neglect so many other muscles. So when I do Pilates, it helps get all the rest of the muscles in shape and gets them working together.
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I think it's a natural human tendency, when you read something, you tend to read a lot of your prejudices into it. And neuroscience is like a lot of disciplines - it has fashions; things change.
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Once you become poor, tired and time-constrained, you become a much better human being.
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My mom started working at the California Shakespeare Theater in Oakland when I was two years old, so I've always grown up around theater.
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Action is no less necessary than thought to the instinctive tendencies of the human frame.
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In the total expanse of human life there is not a single square inch of which the Christ, who alone is sovereign, does not declare, 'That is mine!'.
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I know I'm not the consummate Bollywood heroine. But I'm working hard on it.
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Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances continue, a wonderful living side by side can grow, if they succeed in loving the distance between them which makes it possible for each to see the other whole against the sky.
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I think some actors thrive on working at a much greater pace than I do.
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I prefer working in good cinema, wherever it is. I like subjects that have a universal appeal.
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Working out is my biggest hobby. It's my Zen hour. I just zone out.
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When I am not working, I try to watch more than one film a day if I can.
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I love working with a lot of different films and a lot of different people.
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I believe in human beings, and that all human beings should be respected as such, regardless of their color.
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The calling of the humanities is to make us truly human in the best sense of the word.
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What could be better than working with people you love?
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I got started in 1995, working in a group called The Cash Money Click.
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Whilst in Prussia poets only speak of the love of country as one of the dearest of all human affections, here there is no man who does not feel, and describe with rapture, how much he loves his country.
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My work is entertainment, and I look at what entertains people, whether it's a selfie video or a music video.
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I'm not fashionable.
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My odyssey to become an astronaut kind of started in grad school, and I was working, up at MIT, in space robotics-related work; human and robot working together.
