“One time, when hosting Pointless, we showed a picture of the earth and asked ‘what is this’ and it scored 92” (this means 8 out 100 people got the question wrong).
Other guest: “who are those people??”
Osman: “who knows, but they are out there driving?”
“You develop an instant global consciousness, a people orientation, an intense dissatisfaction with the state of the world, and a compulsion to do something about it. From out there on the moon, international politics look so petty. You want to grab a politician by the scruff of the neck and drag him a quarter of a million miles out and say, ‘Look at that, you son of a bitch.’”
—Edgar D. Mitchell, People Magazine (1974-04-08)
One of my all-time favorite quotes. I can’t help but hear the last bit in Inigo Montoya’s voice. 🤘🏼
No disagreement here, but I go in the Sam Elliot direction. Like with a real cowboy twang to it.
He’s not a real cowboy, though. Love his characters, but he’s from a proudly liberal college town in Oregon. 😜
Julie Payette is probably the only person who went to space, saw the vastness of the cosmos, the singularity of humanity, and the fragility of the globe and thought “I need to be meaner to my staff”
