Astronaut Quotes - Page 9

• Being a leading man... that's like saying I want to be astronaut. That's not going to happen.

  Steve Carell

  Men, Want, Happens

  Interview with Carole Cadwalladr, www.theguardian.com. August 21, 2010.

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• Some of the senior people, the very senior astronauts, shook my hand and said, 'K.C., you did a great job. Don't let anyone tell you different.'

  Kalpana Chawla

  Senior, Jobs, Hands

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• I have gone through so many examinations of what a hero is, between the World War II stuff and the astronaut stuff.

  Tom Hanks

  War, Hero, Gone

  "Captain Courageous: Tom Hanks and Capt. Richard Phillips". Interview with Katherine Heintzelman and Jennifer Rainey Marquez, parade.com. September 21, 2013.

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• Before I settled on music, I wanted to be an archaeologist, an astronaut, all sorts of really diverse things.

  Joan Jett

  Archaeologists, Wanted, Diverse

  Interview With Evelyn Mcdonnell, www.interviewmagazine.com. February 20, 2010.

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• It's very dangerous to put astronauts on a moon base where there's radiation, solar flares and micro meteorites. It'd be much better to put robots on the moon and have them mentally connected to astronauts on the Earth.

  Michio Kaku

  Moon, Robots, Earth

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• Historically, a successful life in comedy is a dream that's as equally pondered and unpursued as being an astronaut.

  Artie Lange

  Dream, Successful, Comedy

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• On the day I started college in 1979, no woman had ever been on the United States Supreme Court or served as the Speaker of the House. None had been an astronaut or the solo anchor of a network evening news broadcast. Not one had been president of an Ivy League college or run a serious campaign for president.

  Dee Dee Myers

  Running, College, Anchors

  "Getting Beyond 'Firsts'" by Dee Dee Myers, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 8, 2010.

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• Then he asked if I didn’t like things changing. And I said I wouldn’t mind things changing if I became an astronaut, for example, which is one of the biggest changes you can imagine, apart from becoming a girl or dying.

  Mark Haddon

  Girl, Mind, Dying

  Mark Haddon (2012). “The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time: Vintage Children's Classics”, p.32, Random House

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• A few years ago it dawned on me that everybody past a certain age ... pretty much constantly dreams of being able to escape from their lives. They don't want to be who they are any more. They want out. This list includes Thurston Howell the Third, Ann-Margret, the cat members of Rent, Václav Havel, space shuttle astronauts and Snuffleupagus. It's universal.

  Douglas Coupland

  Dream, Cat, Past

  Douglas Coupland (2011). “The Gum Thief: A Novel”, p.1, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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• I think pirates, like astronauts, particularly for a boy, are always kind of worth thinking about.

  Daniel Handler

  Boys, Thinking, Pirate

  "Lemony Snicket Walks the Plank". Interview with Maddie Oatman, www.motherjones.com. January, 2015.

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• Audiences of critical thinkers are my favorite kinds of audiences. There are jokes I tell in the show that don't get laughs unless I am in front of an audience of critical thinkers. Put me in front of a crowd of science teachers or astronauts! The guileless aren't our audience - it's the critical thinkers we love.

  Adam Savage

  Teacher, Laughing, Crowds

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• All things are true. God's an Astronaut. Oz is Over the Rainbow, and Midian is where the monsters live." - Peloquin

  Clive Barker

  Rainbow, Monsters, Horror

  FaceBook post by Clive Barker from Sep 03, 2013

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• If there'd been an astronaut on the moon right then, I'm sure I could have seen him. Perhaps he could have looked down and seen me too... the only one who could.

  Lucy Christopher

  Moon, Down And, Ifs

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• I saw this film Moon, it's directed by Duncan Jones, David Bowie's son. Sam Rockwell plays this astronaut that is stuck in a space station on the moon. You just have to see it. It's easy to do something really cheesy with sci-fi, and to do something that's already been done, but I think the story was something I hadn't heard before, so it was really great.

  Kelcey Ayer

  Son, Moon, Thinking

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• As I got closer it looked like a weather balloon, gray and about three feet in diameter. But as soon as I got behind the darn thing it didn't look like a balloon anymore. It looked like a saucer, a disk.

  Deke Slayton

  Weather, Feet, Three

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• About the same time, I realized that it was suddenly going away from me and there I was, running at about 300 miles per hour. I tracked it for a little way, and then all of a sudden the damn thing just took off. It pulled about a 45 degree climbing turn and accelerated and just flat disappeared.

  Deke Slayton

  Running, Climbing, Going Away

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• To commemorate the 40th anniversary of the moon landing, the three astronauts from Apollo 11 visited the White House. Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin were allowed to set foot inside the White House, while Michael Collins was forced to drive around in circles outside.

  Conan O'Brien

  Moon, Circles, White

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• I suppose the one quality in an astronaut more powerful than any other is curiosity. They have to get some place nobody's ever been.

  John Glenn

  Powerful, Curiosity, Quality

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• I've wanted to be an astronaut, a doctor, a vet - these are things I've said in interviews. Before that, I wanted to be a mermaid and a fairy.

  Natalie Portman

  Doctors, Mermaid, Vets

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I was told when I grew up I could be anything I wanted: a fireman, a policeman, a doctor - even President, it seemed. And for the first time in the history of mankind, something new, called an astronaut. But like so many kids brought up on a steady diet of Westerns, I always wanted to be the avenging cowboy hero - that lone voice in the wilderness, fighting corruption and evil wherever I found it, and standing for freedom, truth and justice. And in my heart of hearts I still track the remnants of that dream wherever I go, in my endless ride into the setting sun.

  Bill Hicks

  Dream, Hero, Heart

  "Bill Hicks: Revelations". Documentary, Comedy, 1993.

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• Looking outward to the blackness of space, sprinkled with the glory of a universe of lights, I saw majesty-but no welcome. Below was a welcoming planet. There, contained in the thin, moving, incredibly fragile shell of the biosphere is everything that is dear to you, all the human drama and comedy. That's where life is; that's were all the good stuff is.

  Loren Acton

  Life, Drama, Moving

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• Spacemen - men who work in space, pilots and jetmen and astrogators and such - are men who like a few million miles of elbow room.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Men, Space, Elbows

  Robert A. Heinlein (2010). “The Green Hills of Earth and The Menace from Earth”, p.58, Baen Publishing Enterprises

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• Growing up in the shadow of Johnson Space Center and moving to Texas to welcome our last moon mission home, I wanted to be an astronaut. Combined with my love for Navy history and World War II flight ops, and unsatisfying degrees in college and law school, I joined the Navy and became a naval aviator.

  Pete Olson

  Growing Up, War, Moving

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• Most people here don't have a wide emotional range. It's just the type of people astronauts are, they're required to be level.

  Julie Payette

  Emotional, People, Levels

  "Julie Payette returns to space". Interview with Kate Fillion, www.macleans.ca. February 4, 2009.

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• I've never had a musical career. So I think it's been unaffected. I play the accordion. In terms of thinking of it as a musical career, I think it's sort of like calling yourself an astronaut because you have a shiny suit.

  Daniel Handler

  Thinking, Play, Careers

  Source: www.avclub.com

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