Jill Tarter Quotes
We don't know how to identify intelligence over interstellar distances, so what we do instead is use technology for a proxy.
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I still can't believe it when people say I am a celebrity.
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The way I like to work is to attach personal experiences to what I'm doing, so it helps tremendously if I can write my own play under what the writer has written.
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But are not the dreams of poets and the tales of travellers notoriously false?
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My reward in life for growing up a little bit was that Mary Steenburgen came into my life, and we have been together for 19 years.
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Strength is born in the deep silence of long-suffering hearts; not amid joy.
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The production value of YouTube videos is not there.
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Obama, in pursuit of power, has been as greedy and irresponsible as any Wall Street tycoon in pursuit of money.
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The world's great men have not commonly been great scholars, nor its great scholars great men.
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Most people want security in this world, not liberty.
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Frankly, I don't understand the monthly magazines that continue to publish news that is two months old and which has already been reported on ad nauseam online, including on their own websites.
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The charms of women were never more powerful never inspired such achievements, as in those immortal periods, when they could neither read nor write.
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I got into cars through my father. He used to work on cars. My job was to hold the light, which pretty much was the limit of my mechanical abilities.
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I feel people care so much about their appearance - which is important, and I do still care about my appearance, but not that much. There's far more to life than that.
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I used to hate old-timers who didn't praise the younger wrestlers, but you've got to pass the torch sometime. If you're old, that torch gets too heavy for you and you can't carry it, so it won't do you any good.
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I can't imagine anyone who doesn't think the world is safer without a tyrant who murdered his own people, used weapons of mass destruction against them and flouted the world for so many years.
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I haven't written a young-adult book in years. I'm also doing six 'Goosebumps' books a year now.
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There is nothing so striking to the eye on a return to England from the Continent as the stateliness of our trees. I do not know of any trees in Europe to compare with ours.
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We have a tendency to sugar coat the Civil Rights movement by showing arm in arm and everyone singing 'Kumbaya'. We don't really always show the resistance from the government, the resistance from the status quo, from the majority to silence the movement.
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We must think differently, look at things in a different way. Peace requires a world of new concepts, new definitions.
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I'm nice, and I show up on time.
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That's what technology does to you - makes you lazy but allows you to innovate.
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Saudi Arabia makes a billion dollars a day, okay? They make a billion dollars a day.
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I think they should have a Barbie with a buzz cut.
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We don't know how to identify intelligence over interstellar distances, so what we do instead is use technology for a proxy.
