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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If not now, then when? If not you, then who? If we are able to answer these fundamental questions, then perhaps we can wipe away the blot of human slavery.
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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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My style in diplomacy is my style as a human being - I'm very direct and very honest.
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I was determined to dance. That's why I lasted so long.
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Digital India is about empowering the citizen - it's mobile, it's cloud, it's storage - we are in all those areas.
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I was under the assumption that the first job you get out of college is the job you have for the rest of your life. That's how my parents were; my parents have been teachers for as long as I've known 'em. I was worried that I'd gotten into something that I was going to hate.
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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.
