Christa McAuliffe Quotes
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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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The repose of sleep refreshes only the body. It rarely sets the soul at rest. The repose of the night does not belong to us. It is not the possession of our being. Sleep opens within us an inn for phantoms. In the morning we must sweep out the shadows.
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Poverty made me feel weak, as if I were coming down with an awful, debilitating, communicable disease - the disease of being without money. Instead of going to the hospital, you went to the poor farm. The difference was, you never got well at the poor farm.
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Any man in Hollywood will meet me if I want that. No, make that any man anywhere.
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I think people turn to poetry more often than they think they do, or encounter it in more ways than they think that they do. I think we forget the places that we encounter it, say, in songs or in other little bits and pieces of things that we may have remembered from childhood.
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I arrived in Hollywood without having my nose fixed, my teeth capped, or my name changed. That is very gratifying to me.
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The most fun part for an actor is the writing and the story and the character. That's very fulfilling.
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What are we doing here? We're reaching for the stars.
