Carl Sagan Quotes
If there's nothing in here but atoms, does that make us less or does that make matter more?
Quotes to Explore
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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 Neither of which is obsolete.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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It costs a beautiful person no exertion to paint her image on our eyes; yet how splendid is that benefit! It costs no more for a wise soul to convey his quality to other men.
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I don't think the distinction between high and low culture exists anymore.
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I think one of the reasons that we like conspiracy theories is I think that we like to feel like there is a group of people who are so smart and powerful that they can pull the wool over an entire country or in fact even an entire world's eyes. That certainly makes us feel like somehow we're protected, even if it's not in our best interest.
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I'm really grateful for the opportunity I had on 'Boardwalk Empire,' just because it was very different than anything I'd done onscreen.
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I worked in Trenton, and then I got sidetracked into comedy and then onto 'SNL.' And then into being a live performer - what I do now; virtually that's what I am: I'm a live entertainer.
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When LeBron James shows up at your doorstep, you're going to let him practice with your team if not join the team.
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If there's nothing in here but atoms, does that make us less or does that make matter more?
