Astronaut Quotes - Page 6

• I always wanted to be an astronaut.

  Dennis Quaid

  Wanted

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• The successful golfers - they're like astronauts or pilots. They have that demeanor that they can focus and stay within that one moment and nothing distracts them. That's not me.

  Ray Romano

  Successful, Focus, Pilots

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• I've been approached to do some things with astronauts and the preparation that astronauts go through.

  William Shatner

  Preparation

  "Raw William Shatner Interview Outtakes Dump!". Interview with Clayton Neuman, techland.time.com. January 25, 2007.

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• Like other kids wanted to become firemen or astronauts, I wanted to make people laugh.

  Steven Wright

  Kids, People, Laughing

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• While the astronauts, heroes forever, spent mere hours on the moon, I have remained in this new world for nearly thirty years. I know that my achievement is quite ordinary. I am not the only man to seek his fortune far from home, and certainly I am not the first. Still, there are times I am bewildered by each mile I have traveled, each meal I have eaten, each person I have known, each room in which I have slept. As ordinary as it all appears, there are times when it is beyond my imagination." (from "The Third and Final Continent")

  Jhumpa Lahiri

  Hero, Home, Moon

  FaceBook post by Jhumpa Lahiri from Aug 05, 2011

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• Well, the coolest thing I have seen so far, in terms of, like, me being an astronaut and seeing something unusual, was the rendezvous, the docking of a Progress spaceship.

  Kevin A. Ford

  Progress, Unusual, Spaceships

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• By 2025 we expect new spacecraft designed for long journeys to allow us to begin the first ever crewed missions beyond the Moon into deep space. So we'll start by sending astronauts to an asteroid for the first time in history. By the mid-2030s I believe we can send humans to orbit Mars and return them safely to Earth. And a landing on Mars will follow and I expect to be around in see it.

  Barack Obama

  Future, Believe, Journey

  "What's In The Stars For NASA?". "Science Friday", www.npr.org. April 16, 2010.

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• . . . we have overcome the notion that mathematical truths have an existence independent and apart from our own minds. It is even strange to us that such a notion could ever have existed.

  Edward Kasner

  Independent, Math, Mind

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• There's a lot of things I nerd out over. Quantum Mechanics. I also love Dungeons and Dragons. I want to be an astronaut.

  Analeigh Tipton

  Dragons, Nerd, Dungeons

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• Ben Affleck (who plays A.J. Frost) and I got to actually go into the neutral buoyancy tank in actual $10 million spacesuits the astronauts wear in outer space, and that was pretty interesting

  Bruce Willis

  Play, Space, Interesting

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• The library was home away from home to my mom, and my family. We had spent every Sunday afternoon there since I was a little boy, wandering around the stacks, pulling out every book with a picture of a pirate ship, a knight, a soldier, or an astronaut. My mom used to say, "This is my church, Ethan. This is how we keep the Sabbath holy in our family.

  Kami Garcia

  Mom, Book, Home

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• He'd always known that the world was an interesting place, and his imagination had peopled it with pirates and bandits and spies and astronauts and similar. But he'd also had a nagging suspicion that, when you seriously got right down to it, they were all just things in books and didn't properly exist anymore.

  Terry Pratchett

  Book, Imagination, Interesting

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• Heaven's full of astronauts and the Lord's on death row.

  Joni Mitchell

  Reality, Heaven, Lord

  Song: The Same Situation, Album: Court and Spark

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• Astronauts are very professional and when they're preparing for launch, they prepare for it as the most serious endeavor of our lives.

  Ellen Ochoa

  Serious, Endeavor, Preparing

  "NASA Investigation Finds No Drunken Astronauts" by Ashley Phillips, abcnews.go.com. January 23, 2008.

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• I Was so Drunk, I Thought a Tube of Toothpaste Was Astronaut Food.

  Will Ferrell

  Drunk, Other Guys, Toothpaste

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• For the first time in my life, I'm proud of myself

  Mary J. Blige

  I Like You, Looks, Time On Earth

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• If you haven't noticed yet, working sucks. Unless you are a racecar driver or an astronaut or Beyonce, working is completely and utterly devoid of awesome. It is hard, it lasts all day, the lighting is generally fluorescent, and, apparently, drinking at your desk is frowned upon. If you ever needed to ruin someone's fun, I mean really poop a party, just move things to the workplace. Fun terminated.

  Aisha Tyler

  Fun, Party, Drinking

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• I wanted to be an astronaut and wanted to go to space camp, but then I found out that I was too short to become an astronaut. My mom really made me believe that if I worked hard enough and if I really wanted to do it, I could do it.

  Soleil Moon Frye

  Mom, Believe, Space

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I could have gone on flying through space forever.

  Yuri Gagarin

  Space, Forever, Flying

  "Dawn of the Space Age". Book by Robin Kerrod, 2004.

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• I'd have given my right eye to be an astronaut.

  Jacqueline Cochran

  Eye, Space, Given

  Jacqueline Cochran, Maryann Bucknum Brinley, Maryann Busknum (1988). “Jackie Cochran: An Autobiography”, Bantam

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• I wasn’t destined to be an astronaut. I had to turn myself into one.

  Chris Hadfield

  Turns, Destined

  Chris Hadfield (2013). “An Astronaut's Guide to Life on Earth”, p.7, Pan Macmillan

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• A Chinese tale tells of some men sent to harm a young girl who, upon seeing her beauty, become her protectors rather than her violators. That's how I felt seeing the Earth for the first time. I could not help but love and cherish her.

  Taylor Wang

  Love, Girl, Men

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• The opportunities to become an astronaut in Canada were far and few.

  Julie Payette

  Opportunity, Canada

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• Some people said, “we don't want to risk astronauts lives anymore, we need to stop doing this”. The astronauts don't feel that wayWe fly for our country, we fly for humanity, we fly for exploration, we fly for a variety of reasons, and we don't stop flying because we have accidents.

  Eileen Collins

  Country, Patriotic, People

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• I’m not a risk taker. But astronauts are professionals, so you get out on the field and play ball. I tried to take it in stride because that’s what I had to do to get into space. That’s where I belong, and I’m pretty good at it.

  Story Musgrave

  Play, Space, Risk

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