Christa McAuliffe Quotes
My job in space will be to observe and write a journal. I am also going to be teaching a class for students on earth about life in space and on the space shuttle and conducting experiments.
Quotes to Explore
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What other grown-up gets told how to do their job so often as a writer?
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I don't know that human beings were meant to mate for life or be monogamous. But, for me, the aspect of marriage that is troubling is that it's a contract that is governed by the state, and I don't want the state to have control over my personal affairs.
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I was always a real athletic kid. Then when I got older, I just figured it was part of life to keep training.
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I would like to see every newspaper and every magazine have a network of bureaus all over the world, gathering news.
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Whatever happens in life is fine - just trust in that.
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I've been quite fascinated by the relative insignificance of human existence, the shortness of life. We might as well be a letter in a word in a sentence on a page in a book in a library in a city in one country in this enormous universe! And that kind of fear and insignificance has kept me awake at night.
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As you begin to realize that every different type of music, everybody's individual music, has its own rhythm, life, language and heritage, you realize how life changes, and you learn how to be more open and adaptive to what is around us.
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Because of where I come from, I never thought I'd see in my life a black candidate running for President.
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Film has played such a big part in my life, in my impressions of the United States.
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I think the tennis is only a game. You can lose. You can win. After that? In life, there are much more important things than tennis.
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Unbeing dead isn't being alive.
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Making money is marvelous, and I love doing it, and I do it reasonably well, but it doesn't have the gripping vitality that you have when you deal with the happiness of human life and with human deprivation.
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Most of the umpires, it's amazing: 98 percent of them will not hold a grudge. I always felt a couple of them did. I never wanted to argue with an umpire in my life.
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My dad's the one who's always been there; he's my hero, you could say. Even when he was working, he'd do anything for me. He's been the biggest influence in my life.
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Without sounding too pretentious, I feel my job is almost like becoming a monk or a nun - it's a calling.
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Capital is reckless of the health or length of life of the laborer, unless under compulsion from society.
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Remember, if you want to love your life and live it to the fullest, don't let the sun go down on your anger. If you don't have a solution to the issue, agree to disagree and focus on the importance of the relationship.
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I feel like somehow I'm living my life mentally in reverse. It's taken me to my 30s to feel relaxed and comfortable in my skin. I think I'm going to be dancing on tables when I'm 50. I really hope I am.
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I don't want people in China to have deep pockets but shallow minds.
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We had nothing, no television, no radio, nothing to get in the way. We read by the streetlight at the top of the lane, and we acted out the stories.
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I love the melodies in the Old Testament, how preachers highlight them when they read from the Scripture. But I was influenced forever by the New Testament. I love the Beatitudes, informing us that the meek shall inherit the earth.
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I should only have been as lucky as Valentino, in the movies - I didn't have to be a gigolo. In real life.
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My job in space will be to observe and write a journal. I am also going to be teaching a class for students on earth about life in space and on the space shuttle and conducting experiments.
