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"Even though NASA tries to simulate launch, and we practice in simulators, it's not the same - it's not even close to the same."
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"No exile at the South Pole or on the summit of Mont Blanc separates us more effectively from others than the practice of a hidden vice."
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"Why should I practice running slow? I already know how to run slow. I want to learn to run fast."
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"I am no longer a criminal. I gave up that practice years ago."
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"It takes lot of practice to get it right."
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"If you haven't got it. Fake it! Too short? Wear big high heels, but do practice walking!"
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"Do it again. Play it again. Sing it again. Read it again. Write it again. Sketch it again. Rehearse it again. Run it again. Try it."
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"Everything you need to get that relaxed driving that brings consistency only comes with practice."
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"There are two types of spiritual practices. One spiritual practice is done to attain the final goal (experience of pure Soul) and the other type of spiritual practice is done for the sake of doing the spiritual practice. The practice that is performed with the intent of attaining the final goal is the last, final type of spiritual practice."
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"I defend peoples' right to do that in a lawful manner, but I have not undertaken that practice myself."
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"Where I fall down is my short game. I don't practice enough, and when I have to take a half swing from 50 yards out, that's trouble."
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"Well, we spend an awful lot of our time working and doing experiments. It's very busy up on the shuttle."
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"I was always very interested in science, and I knew that for me, science was a better long-term career than tennis."
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"So I saw many planets, and they looked just a little bit brighter than they do from Earth."
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"I felt very honored, and I knew that people would be watching very closely, and I felt it was very, very important that I do a good job."
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"When you're getting ready to launch into space, you're sitting on a big explosion waiting to happen."
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"The food isn't too bad. It's very different from the food that the astronauts ate in the very early days of the space program."
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"On a standard space shuttle crew, two of the astronauts have a test pilot background - the commander and the pilot."
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"It's easy to sleep floating around - it's very comfortable. But you have to be careful that you don't float into somebody or something!"
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"My background is in physics, so I was the mission specialist, who is sort of like the flight engineer on an airplane."
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"The astronauts who came in with me in my astronaut class - my class had 29 men and 6 women - those men were all very used to working with women."
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