"Things are going very smoothly. As expected, there are some minor glitches, and the eight minutes that it took us to get to orbit, we trained months and months for, and didn't have to use any of that preparation, other than being aware and ready."

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Source : "Shuttle crew takes break for CNN interview". Interview with Miles O'Brien, www.cnn.com. January 20, 2003.

Laurel Clark

#Eight Quotes #Preparation Quotes #Orbit Quotes

“Paul Newman is simply not an actor and possibly not even alive; seems to be carved from wood, his movements stiff and jerky as a marionette, his one expression an agonized grimace as of wood trying to smile.”

Source : "On Movies".
“Thank God for the things that I do not own.”
“Rockers are the nicest people to photograph. They have no inhibitions.”
“Take the wonder drug that cures all your ills, take Jeremiah Peabody's polyunsaturated, quick dissolving, fast acting, pleasant tasting, green and purple pills.”

Source : Song: Jeremiah Peabody's Polyunsaturated Quick-Dissolving Fast-Acting Pleasan, Album: Ray Stevens Box Set
“We must look to the rising generation for the restoration of the country.”
“That's what Hubble can do for us. It can tell us whether the universe is expanding forever or if one day it's going to come back together.”
“There is a massive economic opportunity out there to be taken without waiting for government legislation.”
“Reason and free inquiry are the only effectual agents against error.”

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