Helen Sharman Quotes

Because we were orbiting the earth faster than earth spins on its axis, we went around the earth 16 times a day, an earth day, which meant 16 periods of lightness and 16 periods of darkness in 24 hours. Every so often you'd look towards the earth, and often you could see lightness and darkness together, and dawn and sunset were spectacular.

Helen Sharman

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To be clear, I worry as much about the impact of the Internet as anyone else. I worry about shortening attention spans, the physical cost of sedentary 'surfing' and the potential for coarsening discourse as millions of web pages compete for attention by appealing to our base instincts.

Andrew Weil

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My obsession with James Franco borders on the unhealthy.

Max von Essen

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When we work on a new theatre piece, we improvise a lot. But it's the opposite in opera, where everything is fixed.

Robert Lepage

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But we need to quit taxing people upon death. No taxation without respiration.

Steve King

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Whenever I think of the past, it brings back so many memories.

Steven Wright

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The Bible, for all its riches, is not a document of social history.

Simon Schama

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My writing routine is: get son off to school and sit down at 8 A.M. I read what I wrote the day before, and then write longhand, into a notebook. I prefer paper and pen because it feels closer to my brain.

Tracy Chevalier

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You really have to get to know Dewey to dislike him.

Robert Taft

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Beauty shouldn't be superficial and should come from within, and your eyes will tell the story.

Michelle Yeoh

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When I look in the mirror, I never see a handsome chap or the person people think I am.

Luke Goss

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I'm kind of the town pump. I think I have a pretty good ear for what sounds good in this style.

Michael McKean

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I believe in equality: guys have rights, women have rights. It should be the same with race, or class, or whatever. I just like balance.

Little Simz

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