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 Neither of which is obsolete.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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Cassandra's grandmother smiled then, only it wasn't a happy smile. Cassandra thought she knew how it felt to smile like that. She often did so herself when her mother promised her something she really wanted but knew might not happen.
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My God, but what do I care about the laws of nature and arithmatic if for some reason these laws and two times two is four are not to my liking?
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I don't think all buildings have to be iconic, but the history of the world has shown us that cultures build iconic buildings for their major public buildings.
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Nobody wants to read about a good-looking happy person.
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Human Nature is the only science of man; and yet has been hitherto the most neglected.
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If there's nothing in here but atoms, does that make us less or does that make matter more?
