"If you want to go into space first time on a new vehicle that's never been flown, you want to go with a pro."

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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

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“It seems that many health professionals involved in antenatal care have not realized that one of their role should be to protect the emotional state of pregnant women”
“Things are coming to a pretty pass when religion is allowed to invade private life.”
“Tell me, if you thought a man had a tendresse for you, but he wasn't doing anything about it. And you wanted to hurry him up a little so you made a move, an unmistakable move; one that nobody could pretend had been a misunderstanding. And he - he ignored it - ignored you. What would you feel?”

Source : Ahdaf Soueif (2012). “I Think of You”, p.124, Bloomsbury Publishing
“If you are a writer/director, the [movie] characters are a part of yourself.”

Source : Source: collider.com
“We would like to see the virtual elimination of the transmission of [HIV] from mother to child by 2015. ... We believe it can be achieved with political will.”
“You definitely get more of a band feel to a song if you've been playing a song live a bunch.”

Source : Source: pitchfork.com
“They were overjoyed when the first plane hit the building, so I said to them: be patient.”
“We don't live in the world of reality, we live in the world of how we perceive reality.”

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