Jill Tarter Quotes
We misuse language and talk about the 'ascent' of man. We understand the scientific basis for the interrelatedness of life, but our ego hasn't caught up yet.
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It amazes me that talking about traditional values is controversial, but it seems to be.
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Wild fish are under threat of extinction because they're hunted to feed us. Yet land animals that we farm are under no threat of extinction. Shifting from hunting fish to farming fish - where the farmers have the incentive to keep their stocks healthy - could do a tremendous amount of good for wild fish.
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Israel can't be the only country in the Western world not to have freedom of religion.
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One of the banners I would put up in front of any American president and new administration is 'Do not overreact to your predecessors' policies.'
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In China, we don't know about the swimming pool game, but we know about Marco Polo.
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Some have suffered death to make it possible for us to have the scriptures today. Historically, the scriptures in the Bible were reserved for the clergy, with the reading of them by others being denounced. At times, laws even prohibited the public or private reading of them.
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I grew up playing basketball and baseball. I've always been active because my dad played professional football, so sports and working out have always been a part of my life.
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In U.S. sports, you tend to be pretty strictly limited by the size of your team's market. When we heard that Villa was a club here that might be available, I had a strong feeling that a team in the West Midlands could be the chance to create something very special.
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The thing, when you're down two sets to love, is to stay calm, even though it's hard, because people are freaking out, people are worried for you.
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By keeping the annuities, we could build up a national industry every years as big as the Shannon Scheme.
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I just feel I've got thousands and thousands of young fans that have to learn about what's real when it comes to AIDS.
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I love surprises - champagne and strawberries, all that pampering, romantic stuff. Guys ought to know how to pamper their women properly.
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Democracies can't handle austerity measures very well.
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Empathy is a virtue, but it should not be a guiding judicial principle.
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By placing discretion in the hands of an official to grant or deny a license, such a statute creates a threat of censorship that by its very existence chills free speech.
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I am the conductor for life of the Staatskapelle in Berlin, which fills me with tremendous joy because I feel absolutely at one with them. When we play, I have a feeling that together we manage to create one collective lung for the whole orchestra so that everybody in the stage breathes the music in the same way.
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I've always been a huge fan of Julia Roberts. Without her what would the world be like?
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I always like to look on the optimistic side of life, but I am realistic enough to know that life is a complex matter.
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I have a storage unit, as I moved out of a bigger house into a smaller house in L.A. I put all my stuff in a storage unit, where I have the most amazing collection of bad paintings, which took me 10 years to put together.
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Can't do it, simply cause underneath 'em is too ugly.
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It's a closing of the mind that happens when you want to be lazy and go with the easiest answers, like the media do all the time in their sound bytes.
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No myth dies harder, and none is more regularly debunked by the facts, than the one about international sports contributing to international friendship.
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Life is not a rehearsal.
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We misuse language and talk about the 'ascent' of man. We understand the scientific basis for the interrelatedness of life, but our ego hasn't caught up yet.
