Re Entry Quotes

• We have initiated programs for re-entry offenders, since some 500,000 to 600,000 offenders will come out of prison each year for the next three or four years. We want to have positive alternatives when they come back to the community.

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  Janet Reno

  Years   Community   Want  

  1756

• Another real problem was over putting our helmets on for re-entry, because we all had severe head colds. They couldn't come up there and make us. Houston, you have a problem!

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  Wally Schirra

  Real   Houston   Fierce  

  2110

• It's not uncommon to hear people say that the re-entry into their lives is very hard. A lot of actors say that the hardest thing about working is not working, because you go from one of the most structured environments in the world to a place of no structure. Maybe that's why you see someone go from movie to movie to movie.

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  Jason Schwartzman

  People   Actors   World  

  Interview with Michael Cera, www.interviewmagazine.com. July 15, 2010.

  788

• If poets often commit suicide, it is not because their poems are bad but because they are good. Whoever heard of a bad poet committing suicide? The reader is only a little better off. The exhilaration of a good poem lasts twenty minutes, an hour at most. Unlike the scientist, the artist has reentry problems that are frequent and catastrophic.

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  Walker Percy

  Suicide   Artist   Twenties  

  Walker Percy (2011). “Lost in the Cosmos: The Last Self-Help Book”, p.65, Open Road Media

  4851

• America is the land of the second chance - and when the gates of the prison open, the path ahead should lead to a better life.

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  George W. Bush

  Second Chance   Land   America  

  "Bush: the highlights", www.theguardian.com. January 21, 2004.

  2979

• He remained, weeks after awakening, in that period of early-morning consciousness that allows easy re-entry to dreaming. His limbs still tingled with the residue of sleep, and most days he wanted badly to allow it to overtake him again.

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  Dave Eggers

  Dream   Morning   Sleep  

  "The Book of Other People". Selected and edited by Zadie Smith, 2008.

  921

• The g-forces increased and I wasn't able to continue to hold the camera against the window, so I had to lay it back against my chest, but still continued to photograph the re-entry until there was no more unusual visual effects of the energy in the atmosphere. And it was very comforting to understand that the people in Houston, the controllers, had very high confidence that we were on the right path.

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  Buzz Aldrin

  People   Comforting   Atmosphere  

  4431

• The pressure suit helps if something goes wrong during launch or re-entry - astronauts have a way to parachute off the shuttle. The suits protect you from loss of pressure in case of emergency.

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  Sally Ride

  Loss   Suits   Way  

  2830

• Submit an agreement providing for the peaceful absorbtion of a celestial races in such a manner that our culture would remain intact with guarantee that their presence not be revealed." "One must consider the fact that mis-identification of these space craft for a intercontinental missile in a re-entry phase of flight could lead to accidental nuclear war with horrible consequences.

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  J. Robert Oppenheimer

  War   Race   Agreement  

  1977