Carl Sagan Quotes
If there's nothing in here but atoms, does that make us less or does that make matter more?
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And after I compose my programs, but it is very easy because I look to the music in a very natural way without fuss, and so I look always music, in my home, like books and books and books, choose books and you read the pages, so I do this with music, and I make programs.
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Do not wish to be anything but what you are, and try to be that perfectly.
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Oracle is my second job ever that did not involve waitressing. But I still have my waitress apron just in case this does not work out. It's just that I fell in love with software when I was programming in college. When I was an investment banker, there were mostly mainframe companies and very few software ones.
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Every time you make a guess of what a judge is going to do... you're wrong, so I try to stay away from that.
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Oh, did I tell you I have a cookbook? I have a cookbook deal.
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The defense of marriage is the defense of freedom. Neither of which is obsolete.
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I couldn't spell anything. I couldn't remember anything, but I could go to a movie and I knew who starred in it, who directed it, everything.
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I think my roles have been wonderfully varied. Not one has been racially stereotypical, and I have purposely chosen them like that.
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As an actor, you're not kind of thinking about your own work or watching the movie for the first time.
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You learn a whole lot more about a person if they have bad breaks and all those kind of things.
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I was sued by a woman who claimed that she became pregnant because she watched me on television and I bent her contraceptive coil.
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I'm just really trying to say what I really mean, which is: 'Your eye's on the prize, your eye's on the future. It's nice to know that a lot of wonderful things have happened to your life and that so much of it has been successful. That's great, but the work is really what makes it fun - and that has to be the future.'
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I challenge anyone to tell me there isn't evil in this world.
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The ultimate touchstone of constitutionality is the Constitution itself and not what we have said about it.
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City Year resonated with me because when I grew up, we were poor - and an education is a way out of poverty. It's a way out of the current situation that can seem isolating and hopeless for some kids.
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As much as we'd like to believe that our work is great and that we're infallible, we're not. Hollywood movies are made for the audience. These are not small European art films we're making.
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Every time when they would call my name I kept hearing 'New York Knicks' instead of 'Seattle SuperSonics.'
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Genre categories are irrelevant. I dislike them, but I do not have the casting vote.
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I've heard that George Clooney did something like nine pilots before 'ER' was picked up, way back when he was doing TV. It's just the way the business works. There are a lot of pilots that we've never seen. It's protocol.
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I'm really good with sweats, not really good with heels, and not really good with accessorizing yet.
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I think there were a few things that really interested me. One was that I didn't know a lot about hooligan culture. I'd heard of football violence but I didn't quite understand how intense it really is, how organized it is, and more importantly, how these people aren't necessarily criminals or thugs in their daily life. They almost have this sort of double life. They're people with families and some of them have relatively good jobs. That fascinated me. And also the opportunity of being able to take a character from that kind of relatively innocent place to essentially making him a hooligan was very attractive to me. To explore a darker side of humanity that I'd not really explored in film before just as an actor was an interesting challenge.
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It is good to appreciate that life is now. Whatever it offers, little or much, life is now – this day – this hour.
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I find having a column a very difficult form of journalism. I'm not a natural like Tom Friedman and Anna Quindlen.
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If there's nothing in here but atoms, does that make us less or does that make matter more?
