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"Because when we're in space, my job is primarily getting us there and getting us back."
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"I don't very often think I've done a good job. I don't like the majority of what I do. I shouldn't say I don't like it, but I'm not satisfied with almost everything that I do."
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"The conventional view serves to protect us from the painful job of thinking."
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"Better to just be real. Show up and do your job and be a nice person."
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"Everybody's got a job to do, and I do mine as best I can."
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"Your job is to umpire for the ball and not the player."
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"And also, it's sort of my job to make you believe things about him that aren't true about me."
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"Don't you wish you had a job like mine? All you have to do is think up a certain number of words! Plus, you can repeat words! And they don't even have to be true!"
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"My job, I think, is the hardest job out of all the judges because I am the only one that is a performer."
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"If you're playing within your capability, what's the point? If you're not pushing your own technique to its own limits with the risk that it might just crumble at any moment, then you're not really doing your job."
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"The grand jury's job is not to weigh the evidence from both sides; it is only to decide whether there is enough evidence on one side to bring a person to trial."
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"One of the jokes on our flight is that, if we have a normal entry day going, the plan is for me... to actually take the orbiter first and fly it for maybe 10 or 15 seconds and then hand it on over to Scooter."
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"So, I decided that whatever I was, wanted to do with my life, it would have to do, it would have to have something to do with the exploration and doing new things."
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"You know, piloting really isn't my hobby. And, it's probably not something I'd do in my spare time if I could do whatever I wanted to do. But, I'll tell you: if you've got to make a living, it's a great way to make a living!"
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"Being in space, I'm really looking forward to working with this team of folks that I'm with."
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"There's been a tremendous amount of work that's been done that you can't see in Columbia."
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"Because when we're in space, my job is primarily getting us there and getting us back."
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"Now you're coming back to Earth, and things are getting more and more dynamic."
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"And, so I set my goals on astronaut because, as a military aviator, it was, I considered that to be about the peak of a flying career."
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"And, one thing I definitely enjoyed personally, from a selfish point of view, was exploration and going to places that I had never been to before and learning, you know, meeting the people and getting to know, new sights and sounds, etc."
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"Now, I've never flown in space; but the folks who have say that on landing day, you know, you've just spent maybe a week and a half, sometimes two weeks in orbit and you're used to the things happening slowly in space."
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