Christa McAuliffe Quotes
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To me, family is everything. I want children to realize how important their families are and what a support system a family is.
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EVOO is extra-virgin olive oil. I first coined 'EVOO' on my cooking show because saying 'extra virgin olive oil' over and over was wordy, and I'm an impatient girl - that's why I make 30-minute meals!
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The hatred Muslim extremists feel against the West feeds on certain conflicts in the world.
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We should read music in the same way that an educated adult will read a book: in silence, but imagining the sound.
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It's a rough and tumble game whenever power is involved - people's ambitions, their desires, their competitive spirit will often push them to play outside the rules. It's dramatic, it's interesting, and I think it's something we can all identify with to a degree.
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The problem men seem to have, and women, too, is that they have this very structured idea that we should find a partner and settle down and be, you know, faithful. And yet clearly this is really, really hard for anybody to do!
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We need to consider nominations as thoroughly and carefully as the American people deserve. No one is entitled to a free pass to a lifetime appointment to the Supreme Court.
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In some ways, jazz is the most precise of art forms and the loosest in the sense that it's all about improvisation, but the musicianship required is kind of insane. To actually play with real jazz musicians is a different level of musicianship that almost has no equal in any other form of music in the world.
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The beauty of a Moroccan riad is undeniable, but even the most die-hard fan may find herself growing a little weary of what can come to feel like a one-size-fits-all aesthetic: tilework, white Berber rugs, woolen tribal throw pillows in reds and ochers, cut-metal lanterns.
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You can always tell when a man's well informed. His views are pretty much like your own.
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Usually I trundle about in trainers and baggy jeans, looking about as attractive as a potato.
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Evolution - evolutionary change - does not happen quickly.
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Facebook can be an accumulation of different intelligences. Ask a question, translated into many languages and somebody, somewhere in the world, will have an answer.
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I'm English, and I started off as a songwriter, so I can't really escape that - it's there.
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When a guy tells me I'm cute, it's not something desirable. Cute is more like what you want your pet to be.
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I think everybody knows my sound because I'm me, you know? But, on your fourth album, I think you've definitely gotta show growth because I definitely don't plan on being one of those cats that fade off. It's always about growing with me; I grew up over the years.
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Everyone thinks when they start writing that they can't do it. I was lucky. My sister Delia was the most important person in terms of encouraging me.
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Some artists are working to buy the mansion or whatever the element of fame must bear, but I spend all my money on my show.
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As a state senator and then a congressman, I've had the privilege of trying to do good things for people to whom I owe so much and can never fully repay.
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There were a lot of heads turning when people found out I was doing music and when they found out it was country, they were like, 'What?'
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We should not be waiting until trains derail, bridges collapse and people die to adequately fund our transportation infrastructure.
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I chose as my target the University of Mississippi, which in 1960 was the holiest temple of white supremacy in America, next to the U.S. Capitol and the White House, both of which were under the control of segregationists and their collaborators.
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I really don't want to say goodbye to any of you people.
