#ali

In 1983, NASA invited Canada to fly three payload specialists, in part because we had contributed the robotic arm that is used on the shuttle. ↗

— Marc Garneau

#because #canada #contributed #fly #had

The difficulties which I meet with in order to realize my existence are precisely what awaken and mobilize my activities, my capacities. ↗

— Jose Ortega y Gasset

#awaken #capacities #difficulties #existence #i

What's immediately profitable is the only kind of logic that capitalism understands. ↗

— Susan George

#immediately #kind #logic #only #profitable

I brought my personality and sense of wonder and I think they wrote as much of my personality as they could. I do not go around kicking butt and saving the universe all the time but they tried to capture me as best as they could in the character. ↗

— Gil Gerard

#best #brought #capture #character #could

I'd always wanted the show to be more reality based science fiction, something along the lines of The Day the Earth Stood Still, which I consider to be the classic science fiction film. ↗

— Gil Gerard

#always #based #classic #consider #day

I've now returned to the business again because I finally realised that I really enjoy the creative process. ↗

— Gil Gerard

#because #business #creative #creative process #enjoy

It's more fun having him as everyman in the 25th Century. It is better to concentrate on what this planet will be like 500 years from now, and not be dealing with little aliens in space and all that related stuff. ↗

— Gil Gerard

#century #concentrate #dealing #everyman #fun

The basic answer is that I wasn't happy or fulfilled by the job I had and I wanted my life to mean something to me, so I searched my life experience and realized that acting and performing were activities that I enjoyed all aspects of. ↗

— Gil Gerard

#activities #answer #aspects #basic #enjoyed

The quality of our thoughts is bordered on all sides by our facility with language. ↗

— J. Michael Straczynski

#language #our #quality #sides #thoughts

Most black leaders, whether left, right or center, from Frederick Douglas and Martin Delaney on in the middle of the 19th century have not even wondered about the merits of the capitalist system. ↗

— Henry Louis Gates

#about #black #capitalist #center #century