Nick Sagan Quotes
American sci-fi has fallen into the doldrums in part because of the anti-science sentiment that's so prevalent in our culture lately.
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Be a good-looking corpse. Leave a good-looking tattoo.
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Knitting not only relaxes me, it also brings a feeling of being at home.
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My wife Mary and I have been married for forty-seven years and not once have we had an argument serious enough to consider divorce; murder, yes, but divorce, never.
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The mistake of the West was to put the Sauds on the throne of Saudi Arabia and give them control of the world's oil fortune, which they then used to propagate Wahhabi Islam.
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Hip-hop is making a lot of noise. It should get some more spotlight.
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Children must be considered in a divorce considered valuable pawns in the nasty legal and financial contest that is about to ensue.
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I live in New York. I don't really particularly want to move to LA.
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If they can go out and buy my albums, I can at least make the sacrifice to holler at the few people who call. A lot of times I'm busy so they'll get my voice mail. And if I can speak to them and I have time, I always text back. Because I think that's very important.
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Mama is my chance to be a stand-up comedian. In my mind, it's my chance to be Chris Rock.
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If you do an autopsy on an 85-year-old who died of a stroke, you will find five other things that person was about to die from.
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I pity Americans for their very bad fruits. Your 'mango' is cucumber. The only thing I really miss about Egypt is mangoes.
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Take one flower that you like and get lots of them. And don't try to 'arrange' them. It's surprisingly hard to do a flower arrangement the way a florist does one. Instead, bunch them all together or put them in a series of small vases all down the table.
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The one product I can't live without is my mascara. I'm addicted to long eyelashes and think girls just look so pretty with long lashes!
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I've been racketeered on.
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The right of petition, I have said, was not conferred on the People by the Constitution, but was a pre-existing right, reserved by the People out of the grants of power made to Congress.
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There is no gender to my music. There's no male or female voice, no trite lyrics or poetry. It's much more abstract, so it lives with you longer.
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I wrote 'Time of the Dark' in 1978 and 'The Silent Tower' in 1984, so the thing that sticks out for me is how totally technology has changed. I suppose that's the great peril for real-world crossovers.
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I do not mind lying, but I hate inaccuracy.
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A true architect is not an artist but an optimistic realist. They take a diverse number of stakeholders, extract needs, concerns, and dreams, then create a beautiful yet tangible solution that is loved by the users and the community at large. We create vessels in which life happens.
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Acceptance is appreciation, and the high value of appreciation is such that to appreciate appreciation seems to be the fundamental prerequisite for survival. Mankind will not die for lack of information; it may perish for lack of appreciation.
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It's ignorance, and it's upsetting. Look at the young; they have no idea how great this country is because they never have been outside of it.
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As the numbers of native-born Europeans begin to fall, with their anemic fertility rates, will the aging Europeans become more magnanimous toward destitute newcomers who do not speak the national language or assimilate into the national culture but consume its benefits?
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This phrase, 'culture jamming,' was very much in vogue in the 1990s when these superbrands sort of emerged and started kind of projecting their names onto ever more surfaces.
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American sci-fi has fallen into the doldrums in part because of the anti-science sentiment that's so prevalent in our culture lately.
