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Rusty Schweickart Quotes

When you look at the origins and evolution of life on Earth, it's been severely affected by asteroid impacts through history.

Rusty Schweickart

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: astronaut
Nationality: american
Birth: October 25, 1935

Topics

Life History You Look Earth Through

I remember... seeing the first plane go into the towers and thinking: 'It's a beautiful day. Somebody really must have gotten off course to have the plane go into the towers.'

Beautiful Day Thinking Remember Go

My first competition, I guess, singing-wise, I was six years old, and there's a video of it, too. I'm just, like, stick straight. I'm not moving at all, and I'm just singing.

Competition Moving Singing Old First

I was the night foreman of a galvanizing factory, which is hot and smelly and dirty and miserable.

Ronald Perelman

Night Dirty Hot Miserable Factory

If you're a singer you lose your voice. A baseball player loses his arm. A writer gets more knowledge, and if he's good, the older he gets, the better he writes.

Mickey Spillane

Good Knowledge Baseball Voice Better

I come back home almost every weekend, or my wife comes up every other weekend to Vancouver. So, in that sense, we make it work. It's just a great city. It's a great country. They've been good to me, and I have no problems being up there.

Work Good Home Great Wife City

The astounding variety of foods on offer in the modern supermarket obscures the fact that the actual number of species in the modern diet is shrinking. For reasons of economics, the food industry prefers to tease its myriad processed offerings from a tiny group of plant species, corn and soybeans chief among them.

Food Economics Plant Diet Group

You live in a bubble, generally, when you're touring and recording - you're in confined - in alone space, wherever you are, in the dressing room or in the studio - so sometimes it's hard to grasp that bigger picture of things that are going on.

Live Alone Space Picture You Bubble

When I tell people I'm going to the Olympics, they're like: 'What do you do, track and field? Pole vault? Are you a volleyball player?' No one ever guesses tae kwon do.

People You Tell Track Going Like

You cannot be driven by the polls. The polls change all the time; they're easily manipulated by whoever wants to ask those poll questions; they go up; they go down.

Change Time Questions You Down Go

Humanity's legacy of stories and storytelling is the most precious we have. All wisdom is in our stories and songs. A story is how we construct our experiences. At the very simplest, it can be: 'He/she was born, lived, died.' Probably that is the template of our stories - a beginning, middle, and end. This structure is in our minds.

Wisdom Beginning Legacy Story End

At the end of the day, it not only doesn't make logical sense to deny licenses to undocumented immigrants, it doesn't make financial sense.

Day Financial End Of The Day End

Look around you in any restaurant, and you will see couples, families, and friends glued to their phones.

Shervin Pishevar

Restaurant Friends You Look Will

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