"That's what we want to do here at Johnson Space Center. I think what we have always brought to NASA and brought to the country is trying to push the boundaries, trying to go to the next level."

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Source : "Exploring Space, Unearthing Human Emotions". "Tell Me More" with Michel Martin, www.npr.org. July 13, 2011.

Ellen Ochoa

#Country Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Space Quotes

“There are two kinds of politics in the world: the politics of love and the politics of fear.”
“A life is made up of a great number of small incidents, and a small number of great ones.”

Source : Roald Dahl (2009). “Going Solo”, p.10, Penguin
“Inevitably, as much as we loved punk rock, our noise was coming from a slightly different place.”

Source : Source: pitchfork.com
“I really love the festival circuit.”
“Love, your own witch-daughter, Queen of the Mirror and the Highest Protector of Irony”
“Sure, it's fun to chat with people with interesting backgrounds who seem to have a passion for your company. But a job interview is not a friendly chat. You need to determine whether candidates, can they really do the job. So ask them to prove it.”
“Your days at the most cannot be very long, so use them to the best of your ability for the glory of God and the benefit of your generation.”
“All good poems are victories over something.”

Source : Stephen Dunn (2001). “Walking Light: Memoirs and Essays on Poetry”, p.86, BOA Editions, Ltd.

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