"To become an astronaut is not a question of being the best at something or things coming easy to you, but it's being a person that can work with others and not give up. And, for me, that was part of it too."

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Michael J. Massimino

#Giving Up Quotes #Being The Best Quotes #Easy Quotes

“If I'm off the stage after two or three years I get itchy and I have to get back onstage.”

Source : "Edward Herrmann talks to Tribute about his new DVD Treasure Buddies". Interview with Alexandra Heilbron, www.tribute.ca. January 23, 2012.
“I learned to impersonate the kind of person that talks about poetry. It comes from teaching, I think.”
“If you set goals and go after them with all the determination you can muster, your gifts will take you places that will amaze you.”
“Itâ€™s important that someone celebrate our existence," she objected amiably. "People are the only mirror we have to see ourselves in. The domain of all meaning. All virtue, all evil, are contained only in people. There is none in the universe at large. Solitary confinement is a punishment in every human culture.”
“We must strengthen the United Nations as a first step toward a World Government, patterned after our Own Government with a legislature, executive and judiciary and police.”
“If you look at UFC champions: BJ Penn - terrifying! GSP - terrifying! Anderson Silva - terrifying! But I'm not terrifying. I am not the super-submission guy, I am not the one-punch KO guy, so I am not the most feared guy in the worldBut I will not quit, I will not break and I will fight you like a dog for every second of every round. I am not a super-talented guy, I'm just a dude who will fight you tooth and nail.”
“As Im writing, certain things become clear to me and certain things begin to feel right and make sense. The pieces start to fall into place.”
“Certainly, the job of a U.S. senator is to create a climate conducive to creating jobs, which is lower taxes and less government regulation. What Harry Reid has been doing is putting forward those policies that actually put more regulation on business.”

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