Leroy Chiao Quotes

When Russians were having troubles, the Space Shuttle supported the Space Station Mir bringing up much needed supplies and replacements, critical spares, really. That they were able to keep their space station going for much longer than they would have without us. So, I think that shows the value of international cooperation.

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• Every child needs to have for itself not only its loving parents and siblings and friends of its own age, but a grown-up friend.

  

  P. L. Travers
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• I live a half mile from the San Andreas fault - a fact that bubbles up into my consciousness every time some other part of the world experiences an earthquake. I sometimes wonder whether this subterranean sense of impending disaster is at least partly responsible for Silicon Valley's feverish, get-it-done-yesterday work norms.

  

  Gary Hamel
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• I have got the best of both worlds; growing up in Edinburgh and now living outside Glasgow.

  

  Magnus Magnusson
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• There is no reason to suppose that taste is in any way a lower sense than the other four; a fine palate is as much a gift as an eye that discerns beauty or an ear that appreciates and enjoys subtle harmonies of sound, and we are quite right to value the pleasures that all our senses give us and educate their perceptions.

  

  E. F. Benson
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  • Eye
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• What happens to a dream deferred? Does it dry up Like a raisin in the sun? Or does it explode?

  

  Langston Hughes
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• On Earth, men and women are taking the same risks. Why shouldn't we be taking the same risks in space?

  

  Valentina Tereshkova
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• The nude scenes were a little eerie and I felt a bit odd. Yeah, when the camera scanned up my body, I said to my friend, 'Now, that's a close-up.' I mean, you see every inch of my body. But I'm okay with it and so it was cool.

  

  Natasha Henstridge
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  • Friend
  • Cool

• I still have not given up the idea of becoming a journalist, but at 17 I decided to follow my heart and stay in Los Angeles with my girlfriend as opposed to going to Johns Hopkins.

  

  Mackenzie Astin
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  • Heart
  • Idea

• The whole force of the respectable circles to which I belonged, that respectable circle which knew as I did not the value of security won, the slender chance of replacing it if lost or abandoned, was against me.

  

  Ida Tarbell
  • Lost
  • Value
  • Chance

• I was taught to value hard work. At the end of day, I'm just Olivia.

  

  Olivia Culpo
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• Some scientists claim - although these claims are contentious - that they can form deadly isomers with simple X-rays and that hafnium can multiply the power of these X-rays to an astounding degree, converting them into gamma rays up to 250 times more potent than the X-rays.

  

  Sam Kean
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  • Power
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• I've always fantasized about being on TV. And I was. Then I fantasized about being in the movies. What could be better than captain of a space ship? I get to ride horses, shoot guns, have adventures.

  

  Nathan Fillion
  • Space
  • Ship
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• I have decided that I won't take up assignments that don't interest me.

  

  Lata Mangeshkar
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  • Me
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• The Russians often took advantage of Lend-Lease.

  

  W. Averell Harriman
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  • Russians
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• I pick up my pen. It flows. A building appears. There it is. There is nothing more to say.

  

  Oscar Niemeyer
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  • Nothing
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• There was this girl who went to my school, and she did a Nikki Giovanni poem, 'Ego Tripping,' and it was just different from everyone else's. It wasn't flat recitation. It had an energy and a life to it. And it made me sit up in my seat, and my eyes got wide, and I really felt inside myself, 'She's making me feel things. I want to do that.'

  

  Samira Wiley
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• While growing up in Baltimore, Maryland, I dreamed of becoming many things: an archaeologist, an ambassador, an actor, an author.

  

  Karen Hesse
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  • Growing
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• Every time in this century we've lowered the tax rates across the board, on employment, on saving, investment and risk-taking in this economy, revenues went up, not down.

  

  Jack Kemp
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  • Time
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• I'm really big into lyrics in my own songs, so I look up to Drake in that aspect.

  

  Jake Paul
  • Up
  • Lyrics

• It's so wrong when I pick up a new edition of Huckleberry Finn and I look at the last page and it doesn't say, Yours truly, at the end.

  

  Leslie Fiedler
  • Up

• Age about 30, I stopped looking up my books in bookstores. Paying attention to the marketplace isn't a healthy thing for me.

  

  Mary Karr
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  • Age
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• Republicans in Congress boosted the economy by cutting taxes and ending programs that don't work.

  

  Zach Wamp
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  • Taxes

• It matters whether women sit at the table. No one speaks up for you when you are standing outside with your nose pressed up against the glass. You cannot window-shop for power.

  

  Gayle Tzemach Lemmon
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  • Women
  • Power

• When Russians were having troubles, the Space Shuttle supported the Space Station Mir bringing up much needed supplies and replacements, critical spares, really. That they were able to keep their space station going for much longer than they would have without us. So, I think that shows the value of international cooperation.

  

  Leroy Chiao
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  • Space
  • Value