Frank Drake Quotes
People presume we've been somehow monitoring the entire sky at all frequencies, all the time, but we haven't yet been able to do any of those things. The fact is, all the SETI efforts to date have only closely examined a couple thousand nearby stars, and we're only just now learning which of those might have promising planets.
Quotes to Explore
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I had read Plato and Kant, but I had forgotten it.
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I believe that you can always learn from observation.
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Experience is a legitimate issue when John McCain raises it about Obama, and it's also legitimate for us to raise it about Palin.
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At NBC I wasn't really sure if the grandparents were going to get my sense of humor on a particular topic.
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My son's a West Point cadet.
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Civilization is merely an advance in taste: accepting, all the time, nicer things, and rejecting nasty ones.
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All writers are the same - they forget a thousand good reviews and remember one bad one.
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It's just my natural way - to be funny. I don't know why that is. But as I've said, humor is a quick cover for shock, horror, confusion. The critics hate funny writers for the most part. They think funny is not serious, but I think that funny can be even more serious than nonfunny. And it can be more affecting, too.
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As a kid, I was always a tomboy, playing sport and doing martial arts. And I'm pretty opinionated - I've never been told that I'm a weak person.
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As a child, I had a serious illness that lasted for two years or more. I have vague recollections of this illness and of my being carried about a great deal. I was known as the 'sick one.' Whether this illness gave me a twist away from ordinary paths, I don't know; but it is possible.
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Fallible characters are more interesting than superheroes in the end.
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There is racism all over the United States. Most Southerners I know, we definitely find ourselves defending our heritage.
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We have learned how to do a lot of things. We must try to relearn why.
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Neither does man have gills for living in a water environment; yet it is not sinful to explore the depths of the oceans in search of food or other blessings.
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It's a weird scene. You win a few baseball games and all of a sudden you're surrounded by reporters and TV men with cameras asking you about Vietnam and race relations.
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I think that souls agree to come in and do what they're going to do and then leave when they're going to leave. So there's nothing tragic when a soul leaves. I think it was already preordained.
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This is how psychiatry has functioned-as a kind of property arm of the government, who can put you away if your husband doesn't like you.
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Ambition is the germ from which all growth of nobleness proceeds.
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There were a few youthful fishing trips, but I never enjoyed the experiences, partly because I didn't like hurting the bait.
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I was never a model-y model. I was doing it as a job, but people didn't even know I was a model.
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Metaprograms are programs that manipulate themselves or other programs as data.
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The single biggest difference between financial success and financial failure is how well you manage your money. It's simple: to master money, you must manage money.
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Right after liberal Democrats, the most dangerous politicians are country club Republicans.
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People presume we've been somehow monitoring the entire sky at all frequencies, all the time, but we haven't yet been able to do any of those things. The fact is, all the SETI efforts to date have only closely examined a couple thousand nearby stars, and we're only just now learning which of those might have promising planets.
