Michael J. Massimino Quotes

I saw this movie 'The Right Stuff' when I was in college, and it really rekindled my interest in being an astronaut. I started taking those steps, and then I realized it would be the chance of a lifetime. It would be a dream life: not just a job, but the whole life.

Michael J. Massimino

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Ronnie Barker will forever be remembered as one of the great comic actors.

John Major

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I train, for me, very smartly. I don't train heavy, I do a lot of isometrics.

Jean-Claude Van Damme

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Test fast, fail fast, adjust fast.

Tom Peters

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I'm really interested in women, particularly the kind of black woman who has overcome obstacles in her life and transformed.

Mickalene Thomas

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It wasn't until I got 'SNL' that my parents told me they were a little bit worried, like that I would have food to eat.

Jorma Taccone

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I wanted to cut down on the profanity, because I think I'm funnier without sayin' a lot of cuss words.

Chris Tucker

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In 'Diary,' the motto really is: 'Where Do You Get Your Inspiration?' It coaches us to be aware of our motives and not just be a reaction to the circumstances around us.

Chuck Palahniuk

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It makes more sense to write one big book - a novel or nonfiction narrative - than to write many stories or essays. Into a long, ambitious project you can fit or pour all you possess and learn.

Annie Dillard

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A lot of people would like to see me in England. This is not necessarily the league that attracts me the most, though. It would allow me to develop further, though.

Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang

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When you act, you want to emote and think in that language. I don't enjoy the process of doing a film in a language I am not good with.

Suriya

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When I first heard 'A Christmas Story, the musical,' I thought, Oh, that could be really good. It just felt like it fit. Some films lend themselves well to other formats, some don't, but there are so many fantasy sequences in the film, and Ralphie's such a dreamer as a character, I thought they could really lend themselves to being set pieces.

Peter Billingsley

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But as my brother was doing his research for a book about my father, it became his opinion that the most influential anti-semitism my father encountered when he was growing up was from Jews, because his relatives were German Jews, and doctors.

Tobias Wolff

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