Leroy Chiao Quotes
That was in 1994, July, 1994, and I can remember that like it was yesterday too because it was the culmination of a childhood dream to finally be laying on the launch pad inside a space shuttle and getting ready to be launched into space. The impression of going into a space shuttle is that it looks like a brand new simulator. We spend so many hours inside a simulator that everything is very familiar. Every switch, the seats, the way things work, but the vehicle, the actual spacecraft looks brand new because it hasn't been used nearly as much as the simulators.
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Though many people said there is no joint border between Turkey and Montenegro, it feels like we are next to each other. We are in the same neighborhood.
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I'm an actor, and I like having attention, I guess. There's a reason I like being on stage. There's a reason I like being in front of a camera. It's that interaction.
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The idea of a news broadcast once was to find someone with information and broadcast it. The idea now is to find someone with ignorance and spread it around.
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It is the spirit and not the form of law that keeps justice alive.
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I seldom read anything that is not of a factual nature because I want to invest my time wisely in the things that will improve my life. Don't misunderstand; there is nothing wrong with reading purely for the joy of it. Novels have their place, but biographies of famous men and women contain information that can change lives.
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I know that I have to give testimony about all the things I lived, but I need time.
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I studied the lives of jazz singers who would tour Europe, and... what I learned was life was big ride for them. They'd seen the dark side of humanity... but touring the world playing jazz, it was a truly carefree way of living. A great escapism, if you like.
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Men of New England, I hold you to the doctrines of liberty which ye inherit from your Puritan forefathers.
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It has been an incredible honour and privilege to serve Ontarians as their premier.
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Well, I didn't really grow up playing or listening to metal, like many of the kids I went to school with. I only got into it in my late teens, so when Marilyn Manson formed, it was at a time when I was still excited about approaching music from that angle.
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Career is too pompous a word. It was a job, and I have always felt privileged to be paid for what I love doing.
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By nature, I'm an optimistic person. No one believes it, but I am.
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I'm a weekday warrior who takes our Georgia values to Washington, and on the weekends, I'm back home.
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If you're a basketball player, you've got to shoot.
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Of course it's fantastic to have bands formed in garages, but there is a market for other types of music.
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We made more money feeding molasses, urea, and corn cobs to cattle than we ever did feeding dent corn.
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I used to play the trombone and the trumpet, which I still have, but I haven't picked up for a long time.
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Ultimately life is disease, death and oblivion. It's still better than high school.
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High-concept one-liners were huge when I got my start in the film industry.
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I've probably tried every curly-hair product on the planet!
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Compassion is of little value if it just remains an idea. It must motivate how we respond to others and be reflective in all our thoughts and actions
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I'm a huge fan of BioWare games. I think they do some of the best character-building. I mean, I have a relationship with Thane from 'Mass Effect' that is as vivid as any crush that I've had on a TV-show character.
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For me to have an opportunity to work with someone like that, it's a fantastic learning experience.
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That was in 1994, July, 1994, and I can remember that like it was yesterday too because it was the culmination of a childhood dream to finally be laying on the launch pad inside a space shuttle and getting ready to be launched into space. The impression of going into a space shuttle is that it looks like a brand new simulator. We spend so many hours inside a simulator that everything is very familiar. Every switch, the seats, the way things work, but the vehicle, the actual spacecraft looks brand new because it hasn't been used nearly as much as the simulators.
