Carl Sagan Quotes

Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge.

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• Wes Anderson deserves an award for sheer persistence of vision.

  

  Edgar Wright
  • Vision
  • Persistence
  • Award

• I think in this, definitely, because you are feeling how it felt to live in a completely different time. The mannerisms and the way that people behaved was quite different.

  

  Radha Mitchell
  • People
  • Time
  • Different

• The whole gun debate needs to be infused with a discussion about manhood. It's frustrating to hear debates about gun rights vs. gun control, and yet very few people say what's hidden in plain sight: It's really a contest of meanings about manhood.

  

  Jackson Katz
  • People
  • Control
  • Gun

• Growing up, all I did was work and vacation, but I loved it, no one pushed me into anything. The thing was I developed no special skills. I don't have any resentment because I am a performer and I've always felt that, but it did take its toll socially.

  

  Dana Plato
  • Up
  • Work
  • Growing

• When I was 13, I started working in a nightclub with Ray Charles. That's the greatest school in the world, the school of the streets. Ray taught me how to read in Braille. He was only two years older than me, but it was like he was 100 years older.

  

  Quincy Jones
  • World
  • School
  • Greatest

• Poverty is an anomaly to rich people; it is very difficult to make out why people who want dinner do not ring the bell.

  

  Walter Bagehot
  • People
  • Why
  • Poverty

• 'Marco Polo' had some negative reactions in the press. Viewers have loved it, and the volume of viewing has been phenomenal.

  

  Ted Sarandos
  • Loved
  • Negative
  • Been

• I understood early on that the freedom of America is what made our way of life possible and that we should help other people live in freedom, too.

  

  Dana Perino
  • People
  • Life
  • Live

• It's always good to be known. You want to build your brand up, want to build your name.

  

  Zach LaVine
  • Up
  • Good
  • Want

• I don't have a competitive bone in my body, so the last thing I want to do is be competing with people.

  

  Paloma Faith
  • People
  • Want
  • Body

• I wish at times I had finished school just to say I had.

  

  Randy Travis
  • School
  • Wish
  • I Wish

• I was with the CIA for only three years. I worked in the Directorate of Operations, which is now called the National Clandestine Service. It's the part of the organization where the spies live. I didn't have much experience beyond the training.

  

  Barry Eisler
  • Live
  • Experience
  • Training

• If you're doing a prison show, HBO is the absolute best place in the world to be doing that because you're not going to have to do all that, you know, 'Prison Break' stuff where you can't really behave and speak like people do in a maximum-security prison.

  

  J. K. Simmons
  • People
  • World
  • Best

• There is a kind of misconception that Asian-Americans are not as American as European-Americans.

  

  B. D. Wong
  • American
  • Kind

• I don't want to be idealized by a patient because of what I've written.

  

  Irvin D. Yalom
  • Want
  • Because
  • Patient

• I don't want to be liked. I want to be respected.

  

  Jack Ma
  • Want
  • Liked
  • Respected

• I was watching the Danish version of 'The Killing' when I got the audition for 'The Fall,' and I loved it; it was so original. I approached 'The Fall' with that in mind. I'd no problem with the violence - it was very clear from the script how horrifying the crimes were and that had to be shown, without going to extremes.

  

  Laura Donnelly
  • Mind
  • Problem
  • Fall

• The thing of which the act of perception is the perception is experienced as something not mental.

  

  Samuel Alexander
  • Perception
  • Act
  • Mental

• Hollywood, of course, is the city of illusion.

  

  Curtis Hanson
  • City
  • Hollywood
  • Cities

• People usually compare the computer to the head of the human being. I would say that hardware is the bone of the head, the skull. The semiconductor is the brain within the head. The software is the wisdom. And data is the knowledge.

  

  Masayoshi Son
  • People
  • Knowledge
  • Wisdom

• You don't fall in love because you fall in love; you fall in love because of the need, desperate, to fall in love. when you feel that need, you have to watch your step: like having drunk a philter, the kind that makes you fall in love with the first thing you meet. It could be a duck-billed platypus.

  

  Umberto Eco
  • Fall
  • Love Is
  • Drunk

• But we cannot just take this historical fact for granted. We must make it live.

  

  Wendell Willkie
  • Live
  • Fact
  • Take

• Here, I think, lies our real dilemma. Probably we cannot, certainly we shall not, retrace our steps. We are tamed animals (some with kind, some with cruel, masters) and should probably starve if we got out of our cage. That is one horn of the dilemma. But in an increasingly planned society, how much of what I value can survive? That is the other horn.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Real
  • Society
  • Value

• Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge.

  

  Carl Sagan
  • Thinking
  • Science
  • Knowledge