Christa McAuliffe Quotes
The president felt that it was important to send an ordinary citizen to experience the excitement of space travel as a representative for all Americans.
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If you have a government that is elected, they need to do the hard work - because if they don't, they won't be around the next time the ballot box is open.
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People forget I go to work. They forget that the Coleridge house was bought and paid for by the daughter of a travel agent and a barmaid from what the actor Richard Burton once described as the nightmarish 'featureless suburb' of Croydon.
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Phrases that have historical significance or become headlines don't just magically appear in the moment. They are mindfully planned.
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Johnny Carson was a mean-spirited human being. And there are people that he has hurt that people will never know about. And for some reason, at some point, he decided to turn that kind of negative attention toward me. And I refused to have it.
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I don't know about you, but I think blankets are the best, especially your own personal blanket.
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Illegitimacy is something we should talk about in terms of not having it.
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Practical wisdom is what's called for in situations that have a moral dimension to them.
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In theory, taxes should be like shopping. What I buy is government services. What I pay are my taxes.
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You only lie to two people in your life, your girlfriend and the police.
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I may be wrong, but the essential illustrative nature of most documentary photography, and the worship of the object per se, in our best nature photography, is not enough to satisfy the man of today, compounded as he is of Christ, Freud, and Marx.
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I come from really humble people. We never had a lot.
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Eurasia is home to most of the world's politically assertive and dynamic states.
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It's funny: when I set out to create the world of 'California,' I didn't give the type of apocalypse much thought... I simply set my two characters, Cal and Frida, in a depleted world and moved through it intuitively.
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I came to the industry with wide eyes and an open heart thinking I was going to make a few films that really meant something that I could pour myself into.
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What's most important in animation is the emotions and the ideas being portrayed. I'm a great believer of energy and emotion.
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Look at Islam in a rational manner and without demagoguery or emotion. It is the leading religion of the world with 1.5 billion followers.
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Even if the songs are at times painful - 'cause some of the songs are not all roses and balloons; some of them dig into deep things that I've been going through - there's a joy that I think people feel from my music and, hopefully, from my performance because I am so in love with doing what I do.
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I get why people want to come see me play guitar, but I still don't understand why people want to interview me.
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Banks are so protected from liability they would have to really do something that was their mistake in order for them to be liable for it. Banks don't look at signatures. They're processing millions of checks and they have very little liability.
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Every kid has a bug period, I like to say, and I just got so fascinated and I had that experience, that wonderful life of being able to go out on my own without really any supervision at all. I just lucked out that way. I was trusted as a kid.
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With the likely nominations of Barack Obama by the Democrats and John McCain by the Republicans, one of these two parties is headed for a 2009 crack-up that could prove as messy as any party civil war in recent history.
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I became paralyzed as an artist with writer's block.
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There's an alternative. There's always a third way, and it's not a combination of the other two ways. It's a different way.
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The president felt that it was important to send an ordinary citizen to experience the excitement of space travel as a representative for all Americans.
