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"He's working a lot harder than I am. I tell these people that we really appreciate what they're doing for us."
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"Three of us will help the other two get suited up, get them in the hatch, and get them out the door."
Help

"You look at it as a privilege. So you really decide that you're going to put the time in and work really hard to get to the point where you're ready."
Time

"A trip to space is a big motivator to give up some things in your personal life. Obviously, you can't give up everything and you don't want to."
Life

"I'll be helping them getting suited up, getting them in the airlock, getting the airlock prepared, and getting them out the hatch, and then talking them through these three spacewalks."
Talking

"My family deals with those risks. The best I can do is talk to them about some of those risks. I'm not incredibly specific with them, especially with my kids."
Family

"The first two missions have some test objectives, some new capabilities that we're going to try to develop on orbit to possibly be used on later flights."
First

"Having the benefit to our society, not only here in the United States but throughout the world with the amount of invention you get from having a space program, is well worth the risk that an individual like myself has to take by flying in the vehicle."
Society

"We're doing a lot of inspection on the leading edge of our wing on 114 and 121, the first two flights."
First

"He's working a lot harder than I am. I tell these people that we really appreciate what they're doing for us."
People

"There's been a lot of discussion about NASA culture and changing that. I think our culture has always been one of trying to do a very difficult job and do it well."
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"Often people display a curious respect for a man drunk, rather like the respect of simple races for the insane... There is something awe-inspiring in one who has lost all inhibitions."
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"The last resort of kings, the cannonball. The last resort of the people, the paving stone."
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"It is not true that people are naturally equal for no two people can be together for even a half an hour without one acquiring an evident superiority over the other."
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"There are bad people who would be less dangerous if they were quite devoid of goodness."
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"Whatever good things people say of us, they tell us nothing new."
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"I do not want people to be very agreeable, as it saves me the trouble of liking them a great deal."
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"We don't get to know people when they come to us; we must go to them to find out what they are like."
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"There are only two kinds of people who are really fascinating - people who know absolutely everything, and people who know absolutely nothing."
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"Stephen King in many respects is a wonderful writer. He has made a contribution. People in the future will be able to pick up Stephen King's books and learn a lot about who we were by reading those books."
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Personal Development

"People are lucky and unlucky not according to what they get absolutely, but according to the ratio between what they get and what they have been led to expect."
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