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Scott Kelly Quotes

My career with the Navy and NASA gave me an incredible chance to showcase public service to which I am dedicated, and what we can accomplish on the big challenges of our day.

Scott Kelly

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Service Day I Am Me Challenges NASA

When I was 23 and about to go to law school, I thought I'd spend the summer writing a novel.

John Casey

School Law Writing Thought Summer

Your body has enough weight for you to be in perfect condition just working against yourself.

Jean-Claude Van Damme

Yourself Enough You Body Perfect

When I was young, I liked to spend hours and hours on the practice court.

Stan Wawrinka

Practice Young Court Hours Spend

Racism exists everywhere. So when people act surprised about racism, I'm the one that's surprised.

Romany Malco

Racism People Act Surprised About

The future of screens isn't about the iPad. It's much, much bigger.

Mary Lou Jepsen

Future Bigger Screens iPad Much

Lend yourself to others, but give yourself to yourself.

Michel de Montaigne

Yourself Brainy Others Give Lend

Digital time does not flow; it flicks. Like any binary, discrete decision, it is either here or there. In contrast to our experience of the passing of time, digital time is always in the now, or in no time. It is still. Poised.

Douglas Rushkoff

Time Decision Experience Now Flow

Sometimes when I'm nervous, that's when the most interesting things happen.

Chelsea Peretti

Interesting Things Happen Sometimes

I love playing a character who has an adversary she can go one-on-one with.

Constance Zimmer

Love Character Go She Playing Who

When I was younger, I wanted to be a cop. Then I watched 'The Wild Wild West,' and so I wanted to be in the Secret Service like James West. At some point I realized, 'That guy is not in the Secret Service. He's an actor.' That sounds like a good idea too.

Woody Harrelson

Good Service Actor Wild Secret Guy

I actually did not like to run. It was probably my least favorite thing that I had to do, and then in 1999, I was diagnosed as a type 1 diabetic. It was really strange. One good thing to do for diabetes is to exercise. I don't really like gyms anymore, and I travel quite a bit, so I realized that you can just take shoes and shorts and run anywhere.

Paul Sparks

Good Shoes Travel Exercise You Run

The iambic pentameter owes its pre-eminence in English poetry to its genius for variation. Good blank verse does not sound like a series of identically measured lines. It sounds like a series of subtle variations on the same theme.

James Fenton

Good Poetry Genius Sound Same Theme