Ellen Ochoa quote: "That's what we want to do here at Johnson Space Center. I think what we have always brought to NASA and brought to the country is trying to push the boundaries, trying to go to the next level."

I'll tell you, being involved in human space flight, it is an emotional endeavor. I think it bri...
ELLEN OCHOA

The review committee has left it to NASA to determine the scope of these alleged incidents.
ELLEN OCHOA

Astronauts are very professional and when they're preparing for launch, they prepare for it as t...
ELLEN OCHOA

Being an astronaut is a wonderful career. I feel very privileged. But what I really hope for young p...
ELLEN OCHOA

We are involved in technology development for, you know, missions that we hope to plan that would ta...
ELLEN OCHOA

I tell students that the opportunities I had were a result of having a good educational background. ...
ELLEN OCHOA

What everyone in the astronaut corps shares in common is not gender or ethnic background, but motiva...
ELLEN OCHOA

I realized how important it was to know something about aviation, and it was something I was interes...
ELLEN OCHOA

Usually, girls weren't encouraged to go to college and major in math and science. My high school...
ELLEN OCHOA

I was always drawn to teachers who made class interesting. In high school, I enjoyed my American and...
ELLEN OCHOA

I think of it as a good opportunity to let, in particular, school kids know that this job and other ...
ELLEN OCHOA

Well, with so many space shuttle missions that we've done, I think it's just sort of natural...
ELLEN OCHOA

A hallmark of the Latino community is to help one another, if students are interested in a way to gi...
ELLEN OCHOA

We are constantly emphasizing to people that they need to address anything that affects flight safet...
ELLEN OCHOA

Congratulations. You've just added a new part of the station.
ELLEN OCHOA

I'm not trying to make every kid an astronaut, but I want kids to think about a career and the prepa...
ELLEN OCHOA

This was the last astronaut job that was not (yet) done by a woman. Now with this milestone we can f...
ELLEN OCHOA

It's fun to work the robotic arm in part because it's really a team effort.
ELLEN OCHOA

It was just very peaceful.
ELLEN OCHOA

There was a lot of light and a lot of rumbling and vibration, especially the first minute or minute-...
ELLEN OCHOA

I don't recall any interest in science in particular. It came later in college.
ELLEN OCHOA

I fell into acting by going to a callback for J.C. Penney with my two older brothers when I was 4 1/...
RAYMOND OCHOA

Among the great names that adorn the roll of Nobel prize-winners in Medicine is that of Otto Meyerho...
SEVERO OCHOA

I love being able to bring an animator's vision to life and give the breath to the voice of a ch...
RAYMOND OCHOA

I treated as few patients as I could as a medical student, and I never practiced medicine.
SEVERO OCHOA

I was telling my caddie, sometimes you don't think she realizes she is 16. I don't think we realize ...
LORENA OCHOA

I didn't think it would be a tournament record.
LORENA OCHOA

I tried not to pay too much attention. I was very confident about my putt.
LORENA OCHOA

Well, I'm very happy with the way I played. It was one of my goals just to have a good first day to ...
LORENA OCHOA

The more chances I have, the better, and I'm going to keep trying.
LORENA OCHOA

This is like a major for me so I learned a lot. I know for sure that next week is going to be a lot ...
LORENA OCHOA

I grew up watching Pixar movies. And my favourite - if you don't count 'The Good Dinosaur...
RAYMOND OCHOA

The girls weren't in the state of mind to play. We did it for her.
BERNIE OCHOA

Both are exceptional goal keepers. They've both come up big for us.
BERNIE OCHOA

It was all the little things. It was an overall team effort.
BERNIE OCHOA

We're a first-half team. We get a little comfortable with our leads. It's not really us pushing back...
BERNIE OCHOA

These wins are definitely big for us. Any win against (Napa) is big.
BERNIE OCHOA

I feel comfortable, especially because I'm hitting the ball good. I'm just going to try not to think...
LORENA OCHOA

It was just amazing. I kept hitting the ball close to the pin and then making putts. It was a really...
LORENA OCHOA

I think I lost the tournament with my driver on the back nine.
LORENA OCHOA

If all of Mankind was in a trance, Mankind would be with God.
ALEXIS OCHOA

I'm hitting the ball probably 10 yards farther than last year.
LORENA OCHOA

Turning a new leaf in my life... But like a big leaf, like those African-amazonian-leaves that are l...
ALEXIS OCHOA

It's not about the Great Accomplishments that I've done in my life that matter, but about... wait ye...
ALEXIS OCHOA

Being a native of Spain, the country to which I owe much of my education and cultural background, I ...
SEVERO OCHOA

I enjoy playing football with my three older brothers Rick, Ryan and Bobby.
RAYMOND OCHOA

The nucleic acids have considerable biological importance because of their role in cell growth and i...
SEVERO OCHOA

I think last year in this tournament I learned more than I did in three years on tour.
LORENA OCHOA

I gave myself a chance to win the tournament. I came from behind and I had a really good run on Frid...
LORENA OCHOA

I didn't have my best round today. I'm happy I'm still in contention and have a good chance to play ...
LORENA OCHOA

I just forgot to hit it. It was a good distance, but I didn't have a good lie.
LORENA OCHOA

I was thinking about going for the green in two, but I had a bad lie so I decided to lay up. I am pl...
LORENA OCHOA

We were really inspired by the Lord to open this place. We originally bought it in 2003. We had it f...
JEANNIE OCHOA

We wanted to do this and be a part of the community. What better way to get to know others than be o...
JEANNIE OCHOA

We were selling hot dogs from a mobile cart for three years before we finally got a permanent place....
JEANNIE OCHOA

Everybody knows the buying power of the Hispanic community and the immigrant community. I don't thin...
JUAN OCHOA

I'm all about freedom of expression. I just think that this is the worst time to do something like t...
JUAN OCHOA

We aren't a burden, we're a part of the economy of this country. The economy wouldn't be the same wi...
JUAN OCHOA

A lot of people came. A lot more than I thought.
JUAN OCHOA

The people that were there were the people that we were hoping to get there.
JOSE OCHOA

It went really great. It was a really diverse attendance.
JOSE OCHOA

I feel like we really accomplished a lot. The Hispanic community really enjoyed themselves, and the ...
JOSE OCHOA

Dos gruesos gerontes de las heladas tierras del norte sostienen sus cartas de vinos desde una de las...
MARTíN ZEKE OCHOA

My process is messy and non-linear, full of false starts, fidgets, and errands that I suddenly need ...
ELLEN KLAGES

There's a trick to the Graceful Exit. It begins with the vision to recognize when a job, a life ...
ELLEN GOODMAN

I am saddened by how people treat one another and how we are so shut off from one another and how we...
ELLEN DEGENERES

You've got a movie where the pro-choice family gives their daughter no choice. The pro-life fami...
ELLEN BARKIN

I love Fayetteville. I like hills and vistas and hardworking people and fighting snow in winter and ...
ELLEN GILCHRIST

My heart goes out to victims and survivors of the Hurricane Katrina tragedy and to their families. T...
ELLEN TAUSCHER

I go to a lot of plays. I tend to prefer the off-Broadway and off-off-Broadway more than the Broadwa...
ELLEN CHENOWETH

I hate how box-office failures are blamed on an actress, yet I don't see a box-office failure bl...
ELLEN PAGE

With code, what it means is what it does. It doesn't express, not really. It's a very bounde...
ELLEN ULLMAN

What are your drawn to?"
...
"Language, Words, No, not teaching. Perhaps one day I'll writ...
ELLEN SUSSMAN

I would love for the world to be happier.
ELLEN DEGENERES

I learned compassion from being discriminated against. Everything bad that's ever happened to me...
ELLEN DEGENERES

So many people prefer to live in drama because it's comfortable. It's like someone staying i...
ELLEN DEGENERES

If you're going to be honest with yourself, you have to admit that you go into show business wan...
ELLEN DEGENERES

The world is full of a lot of fear and a lot of negativity, and a lot of judgment. I just think peop...
ELLEN DEGENERES

Sometimes you can't see yourself clearly until you see yourself through the eyes of others.
ELLEN DEGENERES

Gabriel Byrne is an extraordinary human being. We have two extraordinary kids and we work at it. We ...
ELLEN BARKIN

I had a blog where I tried to be transparent while giving away nothing. I tweeted and Facebooked bad...
ELLEN POTTER

Human thinking can skip over a great deal, leap over small misunderstandings, can contain ifs and bu...
ELLEN ULLMAN

Education must be based on the certainty that faults cannot be atoned for or blotted out, but must a...
ELLEN KEY

Having your work honored nationally is a great morale booster.
ELLEN GILCHRIST

Innocence eroded into nightmare.
All because of very bad touch.
Love, corrupted.
ELLEN HOPKINS

I'm not limited by my gender, and I don't think anyone else should be either. Because I am t...
ELLEN BARKIN

EMILY's List members are deeply committed to electing pro-choice Democratic women whom we trust ...
ELLEN MALCOLM

And now I've got to explain the smell that was in there before I went in there. Does that ever happe...
ELLEN DEGENERES

If you’ve managed to do one good thing,
the ocean doesn’t care.
But when Newton’s ap...
ELLEN BASS

Forever has no meaning when you're living in the moment.
ELLEN HOPKINS

Beauty is about being comfortable in your own skin. It's about knowing and accepting who you are.
ELLEN DEGENERES

The only thing that scares me more than space aliens is the idea that there aren't any space aliens....
ELLEN DEGENERES

We are told that people stay in love because of chemistry, or because they remain intrigued with eac...
ELLEN GOODMAN

to love life, to love it even
when you have no stomach for it
and everything you've held d...
ELLEN BASS

I'm a godmother, that's a great thing to be, a godmother. She calls me god for short, that's cute, I...
ELLEN DEGENERES

Accept who you are. Unless you're a serial killer.
ELLEN DEGENERES

I'm just saying we can all work on our manners. We can say please and thank you. We can be punctual....
ELLEN DEGENERES

Above all things physical, it is more important to be beautiful on the inside - to have a big hear a...
ELLEN DEGENERES

Life is about balance. The good and the bad. The highs and the lows. The thing everyone should reali...
ELLEN DEGENERES

It always helps to think about other people instead of ourselves.
ELLEN DEGENERES

If someone ever says you’re weird, say thank you.
ELLEN DEGENERES

If your Birthday is on Christmas day and you're not Jesus, you should start telling people your birt...
ELLEN DEGENERES

You just have to keep driving down the road. It's going to bend and curve and you'll speed up and sl...
ELLEN DEGENERES

Haiku sounds like I'm
Saying hi to someone named
Ku. Hi, Ku. Hello.
ELLEN DEGENERES

Answers to Frequently Asked Questions:
Yes.
Yes.
No.
One time in high school. ELLEN DEGENERES

Contribute to the world. Help people. Help one person. Help someone cross the street today. Help som...
ELLEN DEGENERES

Now,I'm no scientist,but I know what endorphins are. They're tiny little magical elves that swim thr...
ELLEN DEGENERES

The thing everyone should realize is that the key to happiness is being happy for yourself and yours...
ELLEN DEGENERES

So be who you really are. Embrace who you are. Literally. Hug yourself. Accept who you are. Unless y...
ELLEN DEGENERES

Who's to say what's better or worse anyway? Who's to even say what's normal or average? We're all di...
ELLEN DEGENERES

Our flaws are what makes us human. If we can accept them as part of who we are, they really don't ev...
ELLEN DEGENERES

Leaning forward in your chair when someone is trying to squeeze behind you isn't enough. You also ha...
ELLEN DEGENERES

Way, way back in the day, like in the 1990s, if you wanted to tell everyone you ate waffles for brea...
ELLEN DEGENERES

I wonder what will happen if i put a hand cream on my feet, will they get confused and start clappin...
ELLEN DEGENERES

I personally like being unique. I like being my own person with my own style and my own opinions and...
ELLEN DEGENERES

It's failure that gives you the proper perspective on success.
ELLEN DEGENERES

It makes a big difference in your life when you stay positive.
ELLEN DEGENERES

Find out who you are and figure out what you believe in. Even if it's different from what your neigh...
ELLEN DEGENERES

What’s not so great is that all this technology is destroying our social skills. Not only have we ...
ELLEN DEGENERES

True beauty is not related to what color your hair is or what color your eyes are. True beauty is ab...
ELLEN DEGENERES

Do things that make you happy within the confines of the legal system.
ELLEN DEGENERES

When you take risks you learn that there will be times when you succeed and there will be times when...
ELLEN DEGENERES

My point is, life is about balance. The good and the bad. The highs and the lows. The pina and the c...
ELLEN DEGENERES

Laugh. Laugh as much as you can. Laugh until you cry. Cry until you laugh. Keep doing it even if peo...
ELLEN DEGENERES

This time when we kiss, I feel it in the pit of my stomach, I feel it in my heart. And I realize lov...
ELLEN HOPKINS

If you want to test cosmetics, why do it on some poor animal who hasn't done anything? They should u...
ELLEN DEGENERES

I ask people why they have deer heads on their walls. They always say because it's such a beautiful ...
ELLEN DEGENERES

Girls get screwed.
Not that kind of screwed, what I mean is, they're always on the short end of...
ELLEN HOPKINS

When one paints an ideal, one does not need to limit one's imagination.
ELLEN KEY

I agree with every word you write, and I can prove this in no better way than by taking your advice ...
ELLEN GLASGOW

Imagination, industry, and intelligence -- the three I s -- are all indispensable to the actress, bu...
ELLEN TERRY

Nothing in life is so hard that you can't make it easier by the way you take it.
ELLEN GLASGOW

The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity.
ELLEN PARR

No life is so hard that you can't make it easier by the way you take it.
ELLEN GLASGOW

For success in training children the first condition is to become as a child oneself, but this means...
ELLEN KEY

All philanthropy... is only a savory fumigation burning at the mouth of a sewer. This incense offeri...
ELLEN KEY

All change is not growth; all movement is not forward.
ELLEN GLASGOW

I have never been especially impressed by the heroics of people who are convinced they are about to ...
ELLEN GOODMAN

No idea is so antiquated that it was not once modern. No idea is so modern that it will not some day...
ELLEN GLASGOW

No matter how vital experience might be while you lived it, no sooner was it ended and dead than it ...
ELLEN GLASGOW

You have to stay in shape. My grandmother, she started walking five miles a day when she was 60. She...
ELLEN DEGENERES

We cannot look at the child who has been raped and offer the theological maxim that God will draw so...
ELLEN VAUGHN

Whatever we are waiting for -- peace of mind, contentment, grace, the inner awareness of simple abun...
ELLEN VAUGHN

He knows so little and knows it so fluently.
ELLEN GLASGOW

Violence commands both literature and life, and violence is always crude and distorted.
ELLEN GLASGOW

What do I want to take home from my summer vacation? Time. The wonderful luxury of being at r...
ELLEN GOODMAN

Some women like to sit down with trouble as if it were knitting.
ELLEN GLASGOW

People tend to remember my performances, not me.
ELLEN BARKIN

There
ELLEN GOODMAN

He felt with the force of a revelation that to throw up the clods of earth manfully is as beneficent...
ELLEN GLASGOW

Corporal punishment is as humiliating for him who gives it as for him who receives it; it is ineffec...
ELLEN KEY

Acting is a matter of giving away secrets.
ELLEN BARKIN

I was doing stand-up at a restaurant and there was a chalkboard on the street out front. It said, So...
ELLEN DEGENERES

Conceit is an insuperable obstacle to all progress.
ELLEN TERRY

Giving birth is like taking your lower lip and forcing it over your head.
ELLEN DEGENERES

Champagne Wishes and Caviar Dreams.
ELLEN SIMON

Most people do not consider dawn to be an attractive experience - unless they are still up.
ELLEN GOODMAN

I was in yoga the other day. I was in full lotus position. My chakras were all aligned. My mind is c...
ELLEN DEGENERES

We are truly indefatigable in providing for the needs of the body, but we starve the soul.
ELLEN WOOD

Though it sounds absurd, it is true to say I felt younger at sixty than I felt at twenty.
ELLEN GLASGOW

Don't give advice. It will come back and bite you in the [butt]. Don't take anyone's advice. So, my ...
ELLEN DEGENERES

Joel: That's the movies, Ed. Try reality.
Ed: No thanks.
ELLEN HERMAN

The central struggle of parenthood is to let our hopes for our children outweigh our fears.
ELLEN GOODMAN

Normal is getting dressed in clothes that you buy for work, driving through traffic in a car that yo...
ELLEN GOODMAN

Programming is the art of algorithm design and the craft of debugging errant code.
ELLEN ULLMAN

The emancipation of women is practically the greatest egoistic movement of the nineteenth century, a...
ELLEN KEY

It's a very hard thing for all of us to accept ourselves at all the different stages - the horri...
ELLEN GREENE

The reason I do what I do is because I was influenced by Steve Martin, by Woody Allen, by Bob Newhar...
ELLEN DEGENERES

The only thing I really recommend, if you're starting out in stand-up is to not try to copy anyb...
ELLEN DEGENERES

It's no stretch to picture me standing next to Al Pacino or Robert De Niro. Those are ethnic New...
ELLEN BARKIN

It's about avoiding reality through various escape routes that become addictions and lead to Hel...
ELLEN BURSTYN

People always ask me, 'Were you funny as a child?' Well, no, I was an accountant.
ELLEN DEGENERES

The stand up, everything was accidental. I never grew up and was the class clown and had to get the ...
ELLEN DEGENERES

No one who passively endures an injustice against himself has the material in him to struggle for th...
ELLEN KEY

People give me such a hard time because I don't wear dresses. What's that got to do with any...
ELLEN DEGENERES

My grandmother started walking five miles a day when she was sixty. She's ninety-seven now, and ...
ELLEN DEGENERES

When it comes to the application to life of existing laws and morals, woman, because of her willing ...
ELLEN KEY

Find out who you are and be that person. That's what your soul was put on this Earth to be. Find...
ELLEN DEGENERES

I ask people why they have deer heads on their walls. They always say because it's such a beauti...
ELLEN DEGENERES

At every step the child should be allowed to meet the real experience of life; the thorns should nev...
ELLEN KEY

I love 'E.R.' and I'm not ashamed to admit it. It makes me know I did not waste my life ...
ELLEN GILCHRIST

Love is moral even without legal marriage, but marriage is immoral without love.
ELLEN KEY

The educator must above all understand how to wait; to reckon all effects in the light of the future...
ELLEN KEY

The art of living demands that our interest in bringing forth flowers in our family life equal the i...
ELLEN KEY

Men have desired, and justly, that women should learn from their confessions in regard to the confli...
ELLEN KEY

It is not sufficient for the young to devote their enthusiasm, their courage, their ambition, their ...
ELLEN KEY

Happiness lies so far from man, but he must begin by daring to will it.
ELLEN KEY

The educator should do anything but advise the child to do what everybody does. He should rather rej...
ELLEN KEY

In every new generation, the impulses supposed to have been rooted out by discipline in the child br...
ELLEN KEY

Not observation of a duty but liberty itself is the pledge that assures fidelity.
ELLEN KEY

It is not a dream that someday, nations will be able to settle their difficulties without war, just ...
ELLEN KEY

Countless are the women parasites who, to satisfy their craving for pleasure and luxury, impoverish ...
ELLEN KEY

The art of natural education consists in ignoring the faults of children nine times out of ten, in a...
ELLEN KEY

Our age gives the more receptive among the young such a sense of social responsibility that one is i...
ELLEN KEY

On the question of marriage, as in all other respects, Lutheranism is a compromise, a bridge between...
ELLEN KEY

When one paints an ideal, one does not need to limit one's imagination.
ELLEN KEY

The young must be prepared to experience innumerable disappointments and yet not fail.
ELLEN KEY

Children must be impressed with the fact that the greatest heroes are those who fight to help others...
ELLEN KEY

The more horrifying this world becomes, the more art becomes abstract.
ELLEN KEY

Education can give you a skill, but a liberal education can give you dignity.
ELLEN KEY

That's what we want to do here at Johnson Space Center. I think what we have always brought to NASA and brought to the country is trying to push the boundaries, trying to go to the next level.

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That's what we want to do here at Johnson Space Center. I think what we have always brought to NASA and brought to the country is trying to push the boundaries, trying to go to the next level.

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