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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My message to the kids and our fans is hockey's a great game. There's a lot of hockey being played at all levels. Get involved, do it. We will be back and we will be back better than ever and hopefully as soon as possible. Don't give up on the game. It's too good.
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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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I think, in Spain, they are too used to reaching the limits of democracy and then stepping over them.
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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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Writing poetry helps me to write my fiction; each thing helps the other.
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The biggest thrill you can have is to tell people one of your songs, and have them be able to hum it.
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Charting is a little like surfing. You dont have to know a lot about the physics of tides, resonance, and fluid dynamics in order to catch a good wave. You just have to be able to sense when its happening and then have the drive to act at the right time.
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I even lived on campus to get the college experience. I had five roommates and I still keep in touch with them while I'm on the road.
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I never wanted anyone's pity.
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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.
