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Space Quotes
"After the Shuttle checks out on its two upcoming flights, it will be ready to take larger components up to the International Space Station later this fall."
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"We felt it was very important for an entity like CCTV to make its presence felt... To generate a space and to define a space, that is the main thing."
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"I had stories that needed more space than the hour and a half or two hours a movie gives you."
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"Inner space is so much more interesting, because outer space is so empty."
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"An optimist is a driver who thinks that empty space at the curb won't have a hydrant beside it."
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"I felt fine after 24 hours and asked the state commission to prolong my stay in space to three days. And I carried out the entire schedule. Could I have done that if I had been half-dead?"
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"It's like turning the space program over to the Long Island Railroad."
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"I plan less and less. It's a great benefit of writing lots, that you get good at holding long narratives in your head like a virtual space."
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"I mean simply to say that I want my characters to suggest the background in themselves, even when it is not visible. I want them to be so powerfully realized that we cannot imagine them apart from their physical and social context even when we see them in empty space."
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"Well, I think one doesn't really have to invent this memorial space, because it is already there. And it is speaking with a voice and, you know, 4 million of us came to see the site."
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"You'd think that radio was around long enough that someone would have coined a word for staring into space."
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"I slept just floating in the middle of the flight deck, the upper deck of the space shuttle."
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"If we're going to have any chance of sending stuff to other star systems, we need to be laser-focused on becoming a multi-planet civilisation."
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"You need to live in a dome initially, but over time you could terraform Mars to look like Earth and eventually walk around outside without anything on... So it's a fixer-upper of a planet."
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"In my earlier paintings, I wanted the space between the picture plane and the spectator to be active."
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"There was a space program before there was integrated circuits."
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"We need a space program because we need explorers. Its in our souls."
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"Sites need to be able to interact in one single, universal space."
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"I would like to fly in space. Absolutely. That would be cool. I used to just do personally risky things, but now I've got kids and responsibilities, so I can't be my own test pilot. That wouldn't be a good idea. But I definitely want to fly as soon as it's a sensible thing to do."
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"So most astronauts are astronauts for a couple of years before they are assigned to a flight."
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"We have lost one shuttle for every 57 flights and that is not a good ratio. I do believe we need to continue space flights, but maybe we can follow the example of the Russians and use unmanned vehicles to transport hardware into space."
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"We should not have assumed that a political space station could be built."
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"Xerox did OK in moving to digital in the commercial space. They didn't do well in the consumer market, but they're not a consumer brand. They don't even know how to spell consumer."
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"I feel very privileged to be part of this mission, and when my nomination was announced, I was really very, very happy to be selected for this mission."
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"I would have taken whatever hand I was dealt. Space was it."
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"My partner and I are looking at several locations on Park Avenue South and Midtown for a new restaurant space."
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"We are aware only of the empty space in the forest, which only yesterday was filled with trees."
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"Yosemite Valley, to me, is always a sunrise, a glitter of green and golden wonder in a vast edifice of stone and space."
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"I've always wondered what it would be like if somebody from outer space landed with three heads. Then all of a sudden everybody else wouldn't look so bad, huh? Well, OK you're a little different from me but, hey, ya got one head."
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"The space shuttle was often used as an example of why you shouldn't even attempt to make something reusable. But one failed experiment does not invalidate the greater goal. If that was the case, we'd never have had the light bulb."
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"Researchers can measure what kind of angles your legs take up during the day when they're just trailing around behind you in weightless conditions, and what kind of impacts you feel during your exercise. They're going to compare that with what we do on the ground."
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"You could warm Mars up, over time, with greenhouse gases."
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"Yes, I did feel a special responsibility to be the first American woman in space."
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"Of course you don't make any noise in space, because there's no air."
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"Space, and space again, is the infinite deity which surrounds us and in which we are ourselves contained."
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"Canada has made a strong commitment as a partner in the International Space Station and, like the other partners, wishes to see the assembly of this unique orbiting laboratory continue."
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"It seems to me, thinking of it, that there must be some universal plan which set in motion the orbiting of the electrons about the nucleus and the slower, more majestic orbit of the galaxies about one another to the very edge of space."
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"What I didn't know was I was deeply attracted to the big space."
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"As long as the plots keep arriving from outer space, I'll go on with my virgins."
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