Leroy Chiao Quotes

#1. One of my challenges was to try to photograph the Great Wall of China. And I did actually take some photos, but it was hard to discern the wall with the naked eye.

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#2. I'm Chinese-American, of course, and so it's very interesting to see China actually launch their own astronauts, becoming the third nation, following the United States and Russia, to do so.

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#3. Italian husbands, in order to buy their wives a fur, spend more than all their European collegues.

Indro Montanelli

#4. What is not grasped has all the chances to become real.

Edmond Jabes

#5. Coming down under a parachute is quite different as well. You hit the ground pretty hard, but all the systems work very well to keep it from hurting, so it doesn't even hurt when you hit. It was a great experience to be able to do both.

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#6. I think it's good to have competition. Now we have a third country that can launch astronauts, so it's good for all of us. It makes us a little bit more competitive and wanting to be the leader.

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#7. I had done everything I could do as an astronaut, and we have a long line of inexperienced astronauts waiting for their first missions, and so my role really should be to step aside and help them prepare for their missions, rather than to try to get another mission.

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#8. Being the only writer on a successful show is very rewarding.

Steven Moffat

#9. Whatever you are by nature, keep to it; never desert your line of talent. Be what nature intended you for, and you will succeed.

Sydney Smith

#10. Of course, you'll have to meet the physical and psychological demands. A space walk takes a lot of energy.

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#11. My running ambition is to keep doing it until I'm way past the point where I have any business running. Just to keep doing it throughout my whole life - to stay fit and feel good.

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#12. Tinkering is something we need to know how to do in order to keep something like the space station running. I am a tinkerer by nature.

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#13. I spent a lot of my time working in the American module, and he would stay in the Russian segment working on his things, and we'd meet up at meal times. So it actually worked out very well.

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#14. Art is all about doing what you shouldn't.

Nobuyoshi Araki

#15. The British merchants represented that they received some profit indeed from Virginia and South Carolina, as well as the West Indies; but as for the rest of this continent, they were constant losers in trade.

Ezra Stiles

#16. Our task was doing maintenance and repairs to keep the station in a good state for the return of the shuttle flights and resumption of major ISS construction.

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#17. A pie dough comes together exactly like a biscuit only there is very, very little liquid and no leavening involved. Other than that, the same rules apply. My best advice: handle the dough as little as possible.

Alton Brown

#18. Well, it's still a bit uncertain, but I will do the consulting, and I'll see how I can contribute. But I'm sure whatever I do will involve the space program. That's where my passion is.

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#19. There is no one area of chemical engineering that specifically helped me in my career as an astronaut, it was more the general education in engineering. Also, it was a very difficult and rigorous course. So, it made me strong and resourceful.

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#20. But a lot of that kind of work is done pre-flight, coordinating efforts with the flight directors and the ground teams, and figuring out how you're going to operate together.

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#21. One day, people will be able to buy tickets to visit space.

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#22. I would say keep supporting space flight, keep telling the public and the politicians why it's important to advance science and explore the galaxy. I encourage the Japanese to keep doing what they're doing.

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#23. Not only two years, but even until twenty, two hundred, two thousand yearswe always have to be together.""because I have the members, I have never felt lonely.

Yoochun

#24. So New Yorkers, who had so many nameless terrors, were easily taught to fear something seemingly specific - The Pluto Gang.

Kurt Vonnegut

#25. As commander I was responsible for the overall success of the mission, and so I had to know at least a little bit about everything.

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#26. I loved flying as much as I thought I would and continue to fly aircraft.

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#27. There were different challenges along the way. Certainly the food shortage was unpleasant.

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#28. The most interesting thing was looking out the window and taking photographs of different places on Earth.

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#29. I hope that China will continue with space exploration. It would be logical to have international co-operation. I hope that it will come about and that I can be involved in it.

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#30. Space is very unforgiving business

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