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Chris Hadfield is afraid of heights.

"80% of what an actor does is speech."
- Peter O'Toole

"Jesus said to be careful if the world is only saying good things about you."
- Cardinal of New York, Timothy Michael Dolan

"Be yourself; everyone else is already taken."

- Oscar Wilde

"Playing Shakespeare pays the soul but not the rent."
- Stacy Keach

"If you're not upsetting someone in business you're doing something wrong."
- Dave McClure

routine

Charles Dickens wrote from 9am to 2pm daily.

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"Brave is he, who possessing strength displays it not, and lives in humble ways."
- Guru I. Majh Rag

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routine

"The first thing I do is write the last line."
- John Irving

"When she was diagnosed as terminal, Jackie Kennedy took one last walk through Central Park."
- Patti Smith

a source for firewood in Cambridge

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running the world

"A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

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"We must develop and maintain the capacity to forgive. He who is devoid of the power to forgive is devoid of the power to love. There is some good in the worst of us and some evil in the best of us. When we discover this, we are less prone to hate our enemies."
- Matin Luther King, Jr.

have you any unanswered calls inside you that you don't understand or can't qualify?

"Swearing is practically a vitamin."
- Douglas Coupland

birds don't have taste buds

The average age of the Founding Fathers was 43.

"I wanted to be the instigator of new ideas."
- David Bowie

"Tell me what you eat and I'll tell you who you are."
- Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

The nine-to-five workday is hell for creative workers.

without a tongue I'm nothing

Q: How do you know it's funny?

A: If I laugh it's funny.

Pigeon was originally imported to the new world as a source of food.

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"The Constitution only guarantees the American people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself."

- Benjamin Franklin

"I'm not trying to sell something; I'm trying to share the wonder of this entire experience."
- Chris Hadfield

"In the USA, one-third of bank tellers are on social assistance."
- James Carville

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“I am not a saint, unless you think of a saint as a sinner who keeps on trying."

- Nelson Mandela

"It always seems impossible until it's done."
- Nelson Mandela

17th century quota

One thousand tea cups were to be produced daily by a single potter.

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last words

"Why not?" or according to William Shatner "Of course."
- Timothy Leary

"We've never been smarter; we've never been stupider."
- Douglas Coupland

"There's either respect or no respect (there's no friendship) because we fight constantly."
- Three time World Champion Niki Lauda on Formula 1 

"Nothing other than a battle lost is as melancholy as a battle won."
- Duke of Wellington

"Very early in my life it was too late."
- Marguerite Duras, The Lover

routine

"I start writing at about 10am and finish whenever the muses leave me - say 5pm. Then I soak in my heated pool."
- Quentin Tarantino

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out of the monastery

"The reality is being out there with people who push your buttons."
- Hedwig Bakker

"Reindeer fur is the warmest known to man."
- The Nature of Things

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"78% of NFL players, 60% of NBA players and a very large percentage of MLB players (4x that of the average U.S. citizen) file bankruptcy within five years of retirement." Source here.

environmentalism

"Even if we knew for sure that we were going to fail (which we don't), what could men of good conscience do but fight until the very end?"
- Jacques Cousteau

"Be kind because everyone you meet is fighting a great battle in their own life."
- Gloria Vanderbilt

the man who drove him the hardest

"Set your goals so high that you can't achieve them in your lifetime."
- Ted Turner's father

"... people don't live or die, people just float."
- Bob Dylan

"Invention requires a long-term willingness to be misunderstood."
- Jeff Bezos

"Every dream is a wish."
- Sigmund Freud

"Death had to take him sleeping or he would have put up a fight."
- on Theodore Roosevelt

on "Do the Right Thing"

"It took me ten days to write the screenplay."
- Spike Lee

a place to eat in Detroit

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Go where there is no path and leave a trail.

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a place to eat and drink in Ottawa

hoochbourbon.ca

"It's not you that owns stuff; it's stuff that owns you."
- John McAfee

"When you have nothing to say, say nothing."
- Sting

"Hell is other people."
- Jean-Paul Sartre

a place for men to shop in London

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