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"I didn't really decide that I wanted to be an astronaut for sure until the end of college."
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"My teaching began in 1936 at Iowa State College where T. W. Schultz was the department chairman."
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"One half who graduate from college never read another book."
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"My favorite NBA team are the houston rockets and favorite college team are the duke blue devils."
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"The economic piece is still missing, since it's so hard to attract industry to reservations, but spiritually and educationally, they're doing just fine. Each tribe has a community college now, and they teach the language, they teach the traditions."
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"For me, college wasn't a breeze. I had 8 o'clock classes, I worked from 3 to 11 at the Settlement House. On weekends, if Northwestern Bell needed me, I'd troubleshoot for them, and I had a steady girl. God!"
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"I guess I hit a point while I was in college when I realized I would have to do something with my life!"
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"From 1931 to 1937, I was a Fellow and Lecturer in Economics at Hertford College, Oxford."
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"College ain't so much where you been as how you talk when you get back."
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"Unfortunately, most college kids these days aren't coming from any place-they seem to ask the same kind of questions over and over again."
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"I learned law so well, the day I graduated I sued the college, won the case, and got my tuition back."
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"I didn't really decide that I wanted to be an astronaut for sure until the end of college."
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"So most astronauts getting ready to lift off are excited and very anxious and worried about that explosion - because if something goes wrong in the first seconds of launch, there's not very much you can do."
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"It takes a few years to prepare for a space mission."
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"Different astronauts sleep in different ways."
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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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"But even in elementary school and junior high, I was very interested in space and in the space program."
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"The view of Earth is spectacular."
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"The stars don't look bigger, but they do look brighter."
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"But when I wasn't working, I was usually at a window looking down at Earth."
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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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