Leroy Chiao Quotes
My advice for an aspiring astronaut is to really follow your passion. I mean, study something that interests you, but also qualifies you to apply. NASA recruits from a wide variety of backgrounds. I know people who have applied to be an astronaut who ask me, well should I do this or should I do that. And I said, you know, it doesn't matter. The basic requirements are you have to be in good health, and you have to have a good heart, I mean in a technical way, not to be a kind person, well that helps. Study something that you like and do well in it.
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You don't have to be an heiress to look like one, if you act like one then everyone will just presume you are one.
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If I categorized home runs that I've seen, without a doubt the monumental one is Henry's... but I've seen a lot of classic, great home runs. Gibson's was probably the most theatrical home run I've ever seen.
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I love to smell like roses, literally all day!
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Just because you used one set on one guy and had success doesn't mean you can use that exact set, that exact timing, the next time.
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Winning the peace is harder than winning the war.
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Men take only their needs into consideration - never their abilities.
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Oh, I'm quite the impulse buyer. Most of what I buy is stuff for my Jeep, 'cause it breaks down a lot.
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Despite overwhelming support for the United States to adopt English as its official language, we have still not taken that important step.
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I'm interested in personalities, not political parties.
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English football is so physical and fast that when you see a space, you have to go into it with all your speed.
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When I did 'Hot Fuzz,' I tried to get Barbara Steele in the movie, but I was told she had retired.
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I could probably name thousands of albums that I want.
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Hope is such a bait, it covers any hook.
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My family and relatives alone could fill Shanmukhananda Hall in Bombay.
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Anyone with the right mix of parental paranoia and entrepreneurial moxie can make a fortune by selling parents the equipment we think will keep us one step ahead of our kids.
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We have actually experienced in recent months a dramatic demonstration of an unprecedented intelligence failure, perhaps the most significant intelligence failure in the history of the United States.
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'General Hospital' was so massive in the 80s and that's when people my age or even younger watched that show. A generation grew up on that show, Luke and Laura, I came in on the cusp of that so there's still a lot of 'Frisco.'
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I wanted to write a novel that would make others feel the history: the pain and fear that black people have had to live through in order to endure.
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The soldiers that didn't come back were the heroes. It's a roll of the dice. If a bullet has your name on it, you're a hero. If you hear a bullet go by, you're a survivor.
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If you kiss on the first date and it's not right, then there will be no second date. Sometimes it's better to hold out and not kiss for a long time. I am a strong believer in kissing being very intimate, and the minute you kiss, the floodgates open for everything else.
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Work in the fields? Senator, I'm a house nigga.
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I’ve stopped war reporting. I realized that I’d answered all of my questions about war and about myself.
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She died praying that she might die.
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My advice for an aspiring astronaut is to really follow your passion. I mean, study something that interests you, but also qualifies you to apply. NASA recruits from a wide variety of backgrounds. I know people who have applied to be an astronaut who ask me, well should I do this or should I do that. And I said, you know, it doesn't matter. The basic requirements are you have to be in good health, and you have to have a good heart, I mean in a technical way, not to be a kind person, well that helps. Study something that you like and do well in it.
