David Saint-Jacques Quotes

One peculiarity of an astronaut's job is that we do everything in public. Also, you don't want to make a mistake. In the best case, it's an embarrassment, in the worst, death. That's also part of the training. They teach you to think like an astronaut, like they do with a pilot, a military man, a fireman. You dissociate in your mind the gravity of the consequences of your mistake.

David Saint-Jacques

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• I think people appreciate honesty.

  

  Naftali Bennett
  • People
  • Think
  • Honesty

• I'm addicted to food, so if you bring the cake and stuff to my house, I might walk by and take a swipe of icing and keep it moving. So what happens is I try to not keep it around.

  

  Fat Joe
  • House
  • Food
  • Moving

• My concern with religion is that it allows us by the millions to believe what only lunatics or idiots could believe on their own. That's not to say that all religious people are lunatics or idiots. It's anything but that.

  

  Sam Harris
  • People
  • Believe
  • Religious

• For me to go to a restaurant and eat something that is not only good, but totally new, is a double thrill. Double the enjoyment.

  

  Ferran Adria
  • Good
  • New
  • Enjoyment

• I love Damien Hirst. I respect his work a great deal, and I am happy that the polka dots I started using have become a symbol of love and peace around the world with everybody joining hands to use them in this way.

  

  Yayoi Kusama
  • World
  • Work
  • Happy

• I'm not a politician - it's not my cup of tea.

  

  Dambisa Moyo
  • Tea
  • Politician
  • Cup

• People are more optimistic about Detroit outside of Detroit.

  

  Dan Gilbert
  • People
  • More
  • Optimistic

• One of the great debates about the Internet is whether it is making people more or less free.

  

  Adam Cohen
  • People
  • Great
  • Free

• I was 13 and at summer camp when I had my first kiss.

  

  Carlos Pena, Jr.
  • Summer
  • First
  • Kiss

• The assertion that 'all men are created equal' was of no practical use in effecting our separation from Great Britain and it was placed in the Declaration not for that, but for future use.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Great
  • Men
  • Future

• No visitors shall yonder valley find. Except the spirits of the rain and wind: Here you must bide, my friends, with me entombed In this dim crypt, where shelved around us lie The mummied authors.

  

  Bayard Taylor
  • Friends
  • Wind
  • Rain

• 'I frankly doubt that.''Ah. That is your privilege. But doubt doesn’t alter fact, sir.'

  

  C. J. Cherryh
  • Doubt

• The life of man is a long march through the night, surrounded by invisible foes, tortured by weariness and pain, towards a goal that few can hope to reach, and where none may tarry long.

  

  Bertrand Russell
  • Life
  • Long
  • May

• Romance is important, but to have a friend you can use as a mirror, who can give you an objective response, that's what's really important.

  

  Jake Gyllenhaal
  • Important
  • Friend
  • Mirror

• All the violence in videos and movies, you can't tell me that that wouldn't influence a disturbed person.

  

  Alana Stewart
  • Violence

• Do I have a small movie in me? Yeah, probably, when I'm 60. But I'm not Hal Ashby, I'm not Roman Polanski. I'm true to myself. Whether you like it or not.

  

  Brett Ratner
  • True
  • Movie
  • Small

• The underlying part of any comprehensive immigration bill is family unit.

  

  Luis Gutierrez
  • Family
  • Immigration

• A great writer is a great writer... Tolstoy was not a woman, but 'Anna Karenina' is still a pretty good book.

  

  Phil Klay
  • Good
  • Great
  • Book

• Not everyone who goes to Washington becomes Washington.

  

  Jason Kander

• Abstractions about right and wrong, whether they are as old as Thou Shalt Not Kill or as modern as Do Your Own Thing, often serve only to confuse and weaken genuine moral decision.

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin
  • Decision
  • Moral

• You have your identity when you find out, not what you can keep your mind on, but what you can't keep your mind off.

  

  A. R. Ammons
  • Mind
  • Identity
  • Find

• I think that most people believe that Russia, because of its - it has regained some of its military strength. And they do rattle the saber a bit. It wants to be a player.

  

  Charlie Rose
  • People
  • Believe
  • Player

• I love the feeling of creating pictures in someone's mind just by spelling out the right lyrical combination.

  

  Billy Sherwood Yes
  • Mind
  • Feeling

• One peculiarity of an astronaut's job is that we do everything in public. Also, you don't want to make a mistake. In the best case, it's an embarrassment, in the worst, death. That's also part of the training. They teach you to think like an astronaut, like they do with a pilot, a military man, a fireman. You dissociate in your mind the gravity of the consequences of your mistake.

  

  David Saint-Jacques
  • Mind
  • Mistake
  • Training