"You're going very fast when you're on orbit, going around the world once every hour and a half."

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Source : "STS-1 25th Anniversary Interview with Bob Crippen". Interview with George Diller, www.nasa.gov. April 12, 2006.

Robert Crippen

#Half Quotes #World Quotes #Orbit Quotes

“You know I don't care if it's you know an intern or a full-time employee. I want to help them arrive at who they are or who they want to be in the world and that is one of the questions I ask them when I meet them. You know, who do they want to be.”

Source : Interview with Austin Allen, bigthink.com. April 21, 2010.
“If DreamWorks and Disney need that name to sell the cartoon and get people in the seats, that's what they need. It's not fair, but there's plenty of other work for us to do.”

Source : "The Many Voices of Carlos Alazraqui" by Ryan Ball, www.animationmagazine.net. February 17, 2006.
“We must, therefore, be here as strangers and pilgrims, that we may plainly declare that we seek a city above.”

Source : Anne Bradstreet, Jeannine Hensley (1967). “The Works of Anne Bradstreet”, p.283, Harvard University Press
“The way upward from inertia to illumination passes through the sphere of action.”
“It is not easy to fall into any absurdity, unless it be by the length of an account; wherein he may perhaps forget what went before. For all men by nature reason alike, and well, when they have good principles.”
“I'm usually always thinking about the cons.”
“The African American's relationship to Africa has long been ambivalent, at least since the early nineteenth century, when 3,000 black men crowded into Bishop Richard Allen's African Methodist Episcopal Church in Philadelphia to protest noisily a plan to recolonize free blacks in Africa.”
“Speak not in high commendation of any man to his face, nor censure any man behind his back; but if thou knowest anything good of him, tell it unto others; if anything ill, tell it privately and prudently to himself.”

Source : William Burkitt (1840). “The poor man's help, and young man's guide”, p.13

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