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"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."
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"When all those city folks try to fix up my talking, all they do is mess me up."
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"There is a difficult leap between talking about balancing the budget and actually doing it."
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"In talking to you I feel very much more at ease than my colleagues who gave the speeches during the banquet."
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"When I'm talking to a large audience, I imagine that I'm talking to a single person."
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"When you don't know what you're talking about, it's hard to know when you're finished."
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"Modeling is more important than the talking we do."
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"Doing leads more surely to talking than talking to doing."
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"I once had dinner with Madonna and I wasn't nervous but within about a minute I found myself talking about underwear."
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"You know you haven't stopped talking since I came here? You must have been vaccinated with a phonograph needle!"
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"I've never really been star struck. I was a little bit taken aback when I was doing a chat show recently and I was sat in the make-up chair chatting to a guy say next to me but I couldn't look round and see who it was, it was only when I got up I realised it had been Bryan Adams I'd been talking to!"
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"I think we've done that. But it's not something you really notice, 'cause I've always thought the people here have always done their best, and they continue to do their best. They just might do it a little bit differently."
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"We're doing a lot of inspection on the leading edge of our wing on 114 and 121, the first two flights."
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"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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"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

"Well, right now we're so busy that I kind of had to put all the hobbies on hold. But I like going camping with my kids. I have two daughters; they're 7 and 10 years old."
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"Later, after flying in the Navy for four or five years, spending some time on an aircraft carrier, I applied to and was accepted in a program where I went to graduate school first and then to the Naval Test Pilots School."
Time

"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 a lot of interest there in the missions that I fly on and the ones my brother's involved with."
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"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

"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
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