Sally Ride Quotes and Sayings - Page 1
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“It takes a couple of years just to get the background and knowledge that you need before you can go into detailed training for your mission.”
-- Sally RideSource : Scholastic Corporation Interview, teacher.scholastic.com. November 20, 1998.
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“If we want scientists and engineers in the future, we should be cultivating the girls as much as the boys.”
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“So I decided on science when I was in college.”
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“All adventures, especially into new territory, are scary.”
-- Sally RideSource : Sally Ride, Susan Okie (1986). “To Space & Back”
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“The thing I'll remember most about the flight is that it was fun. In fact, I'm sure it was the most fun that I'll ever have in my life.”
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“I suggest taking the high road and have a little sence of humour and let things roll off your back. I think that's very important.”
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“I would like to be remembered as someone who was not afraid to do what she wanted to do, and as someone who took risks along the way in order to achieve her goals.”
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“When you're getting ready to launch into space, you're sitting on a big explosion waiting to happen.”
-- Sally RideSource : Scholastic Interview, teacher.scholastic.com. November 20, 1998.
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“There are lots of opportunities out there for women to work in these fields, ... Girls just need support, encouragement and mentoring to follow through with the sciences.”
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“Our future lies with today's kids and tomorrow's space exploration.”
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“Astronauts will remain the explorers, the pioneers-the first to go back to moon and on to Mars. But I think it's really important to make space space available to as many people as we can. It's going to be a while before we can launch people for less than $20 million a ticket. But that day is coming.”
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“Yes, I did feel a special responsibility to be the first American woman in space.”
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“Then during the mission itself, I used the space shuttle's robot arm to release a satellite into orbit.”
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“Ever been to Disneyland? That was definitely an E ticket!”
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“It's too bad our society isn't further along.”
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“Some astronauts sleep in sort of beds - compartments that you can open up and crawl into and then close up, almost like a little bedroom.”
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“The astronauts who came in with me in my astronaut class - my class had 29 men and 6 women - those men were all very used to working with women.”
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“The space shuttle is a better and safer rocket than it was before the Challenger accident.”
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“I can't remember a single time [my parents] ever told me not to do something I wanted to do.”
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“The experience of being in space didn't change my perspective of myself or of the planet or of life. I had no spiritual experience.”
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“It takes a few years to prepare for a space mission.”
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“Science is fun. Science is curiosity. We all have natural curiosity. Science is a process of investigating. It's posing questions and coming up with a method. It's delving in.”
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“If it wasn't for the women's movement, I wouldn't be where I am today.”
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“I haven't written my memoirs or let the television movie be made about my life.”
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“The rockets light! The shuttle leaps off the launch pad in a cloud of steam and a trail of fire.”
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“We can see cities during the day and at night, and we can watch rivers dump sediment into the ocean, and see hurricanes form.”
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