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Scott Kelly Quotes

Your arms don't hang by your side in space like they do on Earth because there is no gravity. It feels awkward to have them floating in front of me.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: astronaut
Nationality: american
Birth: February 21, 1964

Topics

Space Me Earth Gravity Side Awkward

I'm talking to anyone who has been dumped - have not gotten the job you really wanted or have received those horrible rejection letters from grad school. You know, the disappointment of losing, or not getting something you badly want. When that happens, show what you are made of.

Job School Losing Disappointment You

My first professional job was actually at a place called Opryland U.S.A., which no longer exists, but I've been performing since I was a kid.

Job Professional Place First Kid

I think sometimes we seem to obsess on negativity.

Andie MacDowell

Think Negativity Sometimes Seem

My take on it, like a filmmaker or actor, is if you have much more colors within your creation, eventually people will appreciate what you're doing, and the other stuff is secondary, like critiques or even awards or anything else, as long as people enjoy it.

People Colors Appreciate Doing Enjoy

Every man hath a general desire of his own happiness; and likewise a variety of particular affections, passions, and appetites to particular external objects.

Happiness Man Desire Own Variety

I went from having 50 listeners to 50 million listeners.

Million Having Listeners

My father always told me that story was first and foremost. We would watch not just his films but a lot of classic American films. My father was a great David Lean fan, and David Lean's one of my favorite directors. We would discuss films endlessly.

Christopher Rouse

Father Great Me Story American Just

When I was a kid growing up, my dad being a football coach, he asked the same question of all the assistants that he ever hired: 'Is your goal to be a head football coach?'

Football Growing Up Goal Growing Kid

You're going to tell me that things aren't right in Cuba, and so we shouldn't engage. It's lunacy. Look outside your door and see the inhumanity of Americans... that we perpetrate on a daily basis in our lives... and then tell me that you're going to isolate Cuba as an example. I'm sorry; that's unacceptable.

Arturo O'Farrill

Daily Me Door Sorry You Look

Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise.

Live Surprise Nothing Expect

The deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated.

Nature Human Nature Human Deepest

He has been a world champion - great for him - but listen, whenever Lennox Lewis wants to come out of retirement, I'm here waiting for him because I'm the best British fighter to come out of these shores.

Great Best Waiting World Champion

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