Christa McAuliffe Quotes
It's not the Olympics. It's Concord, New Hampshire, and a homecoming should reflect the community I'm part of.
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People hear the examples of kids who work when they're young, have bad experiences, and then have a rough life after that, but a lot of it is just about the people around you.
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To preserve our sovereign integrity, we must prove to them nobody need tell us how to hold a clean and democratic election.
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I want to be an animated character. I'm also doing more writing and directing.
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As far as religion goes, I feel like everyone should have their own one-on-one with God.
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Bodhisattva is enlightened in the Buddhist philosophy, religion, tradition. He's enlightened. It's fine - I don't really fight it - but many people use the term 'zen' and terms like 'nirvana,' 'enlightenment' in an almost superficial way. It's not that complicated.
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I don't read other science fiction. I don't read any at all.
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My Alma mater was books, a good library... I could spend the rest of my life reading, just satisfying my curiosity.
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If you're expecting an intellectual film, then you will be disappointed.
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I don't want my writing to be work to read. My main goal is completely shameless entertainment. I want people to smile and giggle and enjoy the book. I'm not trying to save the world through literature.
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I saw the pilot for 'Girls' about six months before it aired.
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Gluttony is not a secret vice.
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Museums are western inventions where the rich and the powerful or the government and the state tend to exhibit the signs and symbol and images of their culture.
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You can be in the shape of your life, and then injury strikes. So you have to grab your opportunities.
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People are needed to take up the challenge, strong people, who proclaim the truth, throw it in people's faces, and do what they can with their own two hands.
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It's a huge step up from the European Indoor Championships to being world outdoor gold medallist.
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I did a movie called 'Quicksand No Escape' with Donald Sutherland and Tim Matheson. I think I was maybe 5. I was really little. Yeah, it was fun. And actually, Felicity Huffman played my mom.
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Stay away from drugs. They're not worth it. I've tried, but there's none of them that's worth it.
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Religion is the recognition of all our duties as divine commands.
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I used to have frequent arguments with my father which ended in doors slamming and the ultimate expletive ‘Filthy bougeois’
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Oh, God! I have an ill-divining soul!
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Each of us is born into our own mysteries…but the mystery of another might just take us in and embrace us. And then what a sense of homecoming, of belonging!
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We learn, grow and become compassionate and generous as much through exile as homecoming, as much through loss as gain, as much through giving things away as in receiving what we believe to be our due.
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In Japan, the writers have made up a literary community, a circle, a society. I think 90 percent of Japan's writers live in Tokyo. Naturally, they make a community. There are groups and customs, and so they are tied up in a way.
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It's not the Olympics. It's Concord, New Hampshire, and a homecoming should reflect the community I'm part of.
