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"In the Astronaut Office we're never totally out of training, we always keep our hand in it. But after five years, things have changed and so it's been good to get back into the flow and relearn a lot of things."
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"He who uses the office he owes to the voters wrongfully and against them is a thief."
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"I want to do exactly what I want to do. I'd rather gamble on the box office than beg for a grant."
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"As a kid, we would drive up and down 77 North - that's our highway - there would be office buildings on the side of the highway and I'd be like, that's what my house is going to look like when I get older. I'm going to start making my house look like this."
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"I always arrive late at the office, but I make up for it by leaving early."
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"The Blackberry is really essential for keeping up on my emails when I'm out of the office, which is a lot."
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"I'm very proud of what we've done with the State University and the City University. They're totally different institutions than they were when I took office."
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"While I have served in public office for 30 years, my professional training is as a pharmacist, not a lawyer or an accountant."
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"What is my calling? What am I supposed to do? I think running for office, public office, can be a divine calling. I mean, I've wrestled with that very question myself."
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"Films must all have the same structure. All of this to guarantee box office bonanza, which of course it never does, but that's another discussion entirely."
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"The Democratic Party of California is ready to sponsor me. All I have to do is find the right office to run for."
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"It's really kind of a challenge to keep coordinated with the two station crews that we'll be interacting with. And of course one of them launched quite some time before our mission."
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"Although I know a lot of the previous shuttle flights, in theory, had their tasks laid out; but there were still some changes that came along for them."
Theory
"As always, we prepare for all sorts of contingencies. And the first few days of the flight up until docking on Day 3 are all spent really in the rendezvous because we launch at a time that puts us in an optimal position to catch up to station."
Time
"We're on the same radius from the Earth, and then we start to swing around to where we're ahead of them on the velocity vector, so we come in relative to the station from this forward velocity position and dock on to the forward end of the Lab."
Earth
"We're taking up some science experiments, some crystal growth things, we have a refrigerator that carries up some samples, new samples that go into the station, we bring the old ones home; we have a lot of clothing, we have a lot of food-U.S. and Russian food."
Food
"It's very important to know that we packed it right because it is a safety issue for coming home."
Home
"We launch when we're kind of in the same orbit that they are in terms of being matched up in inclination in space, and we're just in a little different altitude."
Being
"I did grow up with a really big interest in math and science; I liked it."
Science
"It definitely helps to have been through the arm training flow before and to have used the arm on orbit, and it also gives me the confidence to know that our training facilities are really good, that when you get up there, you feel like you've been there."
Confidence
"The training comes to us with the benefit of what has gone before."
Learning
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