Christa McAuliffe Quotes
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One of my earliest memories is of my father carrying me in one arm with a picket sign in the other.
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I'm a Nietzschean scholar. I've read an immense amount about nihilism and existentialism.
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I had an Indiana Jones fedora that I loved. I don't know what happened to it. I don't know where it went. Wish I had it back. Whoever's got it, you suck.
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I have great stories. I am going to write a book.
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People walk differently in high heels. Your body sways to a different kind of tempo.
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It's difficult losing, but it's even more difficult when you didn't make a shot. I could see the ball just didn't go your way on an out-of-bounds play or something like that, but when you're just not making them, it's frustrating.
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I had no real idea I was going to become a writer. It was just a game for me. I just liked pretending, daydreaming and imagining.
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Televisions and radios are locked on government frequencies - it is a serious crime to listen to a foreign broadcast. As a result, North Koreans think that they live in the best country in the world and that, as difficult as their lives may be, everybody else has it much worse.
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When I'm writing about reality, I'm writing about death. When I'm writing fiction, I'm writing about life.
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You don't realize how strong you are until you have to help someone else stand up.
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It's often meaningless to talk about a genetic trait without also discussing the environment in which that trait appears. Sometimes, genes don't work at all until the environment awakens them.
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Biology will relate every human gene to the genes of other animals and bacteria, to this great chain of being.
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One of the things I learned in animation is that you never, ever want to start doing a voice that you can't sustain for four straight hours.
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I wasn't that over-the-top, but I got sent to the principal in first grade for talking. And my father was for a long time the president of the Board of Education. That was always a hard note to bring home.
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It's true that I'm even better than I could have imagined, both in football and in my private life!
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It's only a hitch when you're in a slump. When you're hitting the ball its called rhythm.
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I don't believe in luck. Not in golf, anyway. There are good bounces and bad bounces, sure, but the ball is round and so is the hole. If you find yourself in a position where you hope for luck to pull you through, you're in serious trouble.
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A man is usually more careful of his money than of his principles.
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Discipleship is based solely on devotion to Jesus Christ, not on following after a particular belief or doctrine.
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The world is like a little marsh filled with mint and white hawthorn.
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It's so easy to look forward when you're travelling; you spend your life looking forward, thinking, 'What's next? When do I get time to work on my music again? Or when do I get time to get my 'normal' life back?'
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I think when people watch a lot of artists, they're expecting this showiness, and I'm cracking jokes with people. I'm heckling back. I'm interacting.
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The bigness of the world is redemption. Despair compresses you into a small space, and a depression is literally a hollow in the ground. To dig deeper into the self, to go underground, is sometimes necessary, but so is the other route of getting out of yourself, into the larger world, into the openness in which you need not clutch your story and your troubles so tightly to your chest.
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What are we doing here? We're reaching for the stars.
