Alan G. Poindexter Quotes
When you see the orbiter headed out the launch pad and then crawling up the hill and being hard down on the pad, it does something to you.Alan G. Poindexter
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I shouldn't say this, but I always love the sidekicks. I want to do a leading-lady role in a film - absolutely. But I find that a lot of times I get attracted to the sidekick role. They stand out a little more because they're quirkier, they're funnier, they're crazier.
Malin Akerman -
I didn't grow up listening to The Smiths, but now I am a fan. I love his music and listened to so much of it for the film. It's not a regular biopic; they picked a part of his life that people don't really know about. You learn what informs his lyrics.
Jack Lowden -
One who works for his own profit is likely to work hard. One who works for the use of others, without profit to himself, is likely not to work any harder than he must.
B. Carroll Reece -
Poverty is an anomaly to rich people; it is very difficult to make out why people who want dinner do not ring the bell.
Walter Bagehot -
Most big popcorn movies are 'bad guy does something to good guy, good guy gets revenge on bad guy, sets the world right, and moves on.' And 'Ender's Game' is just not that simple, so it's an exciting challenge. It's a little terrifying, and let's see how audiences respond.
Gavin Hood -
Our character is what we do when we think no one is looking.
H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
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Yoga means union, in all its significances and dimensions.
Indra Devi -
I wasn't in shape at all before I decided to do boxing. I wasn't an athlete. Before boxing, I would go to the gym for a month and stop.
Laila Ali -
See, the SAG awards caught me totally by surprise.
Patricia Clarkson -
Amazon's 'Twitch' appears to be creating a service that operates like Twitter.
Walt Mossberg -
You lose the speed before the stamina.
Haile Gebrselassie -
I was in Nashville quite a bit when I shot 'Nashville,' and I was in Los Angeles when I shot in 'Supergirl'.
Laura Benanti
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When we started out in '64, um, I was playing Number One, which was a woman second in command of a star ship.
Majel Barrett -
A celebrated people lose dignity upon a closer view.
Napoleon Bonaparte -
Due process gives teachers the latitude to use their professional judgment in their classrooms, to advocate for their students, and to not fear retribution for speaking the truth or teaching controversial subjects like evolution. As political winds shift in school districts, due process also wards off patronage or nepotism.
Randi Weingarten -
Working on 'Austin and Ally' has been an absolute dream! We literally have fun every single day! Whether it's scaring each other or singing together or just hanging out in each other's dressing rooms, the cast and I are super close! I feel really lucky to be with everyone on our set!
Laura Marano -
Every argument for Negro suffrage is an argument for women's suffrage.
W. E. B. Du Bois -
In one year I travelled 450,000 miles by air.
Jackie Stewart
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When I started dating I had this kind of Romeo and Juliet, fateful romantic idea about love which was almost that you were a victim and there was a lot of pain involved and that was how it should be.
Emma Watson -
It's important to me what the viewers think.
Peter Morgan -
I very much looked up to Janet Evans and Summer Sanders.
Natalie Coughlin -
Superheroes are best imagined in comic books. The union between the written word, the image, and then what your imagination has to do to connect those allows for so much.
Ta-Nehisi Coates -
To me there is no past or future in my art. If a work of art cannot live always in the present it must not be considered at all. The art of the Greeks, of the Egyptians, of the great painters who lived in other times, is not an art of the past; perhaps it is more alive today than it ever was.
Pablo Picasso -
When you see the orbiter headed out the launch pad and then crawling up the hill and being hard down on the pad, it does something to you.
Alan G. Poindexter