Carl Sagan Quotes
In the long run, the aggressive civilizations destroy themselves, almost always. It’s their nature. They can’t help it.
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I've ended up on some website list or some other list for super right-wing people. They've been tweeting some pretty rude stuff at me, so I think there's a sect of America out there that doesn't like certain opinions and can really take their claws out when they don't like what you're saying.
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The bottom line is, when you're in the Senate, you have more of a voice in the beginning than a new House member.
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It's what happens in other major championships - I just lose my head a little bit.
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One Direction is the main thing I'm doing and I'm 100 per cent dedicated to the group.
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Here or henceforward it is all the same to me, I accept Time absolutely.
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I think that when we strip people down, most of us want the same things. People just have very different views of how to get there.
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Often times I have been asked about the attributes for success, and I have said that you need two attributes for succeeding as an entrepreneur: one, courage, second, luck.
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It couldn't have happened anywhere but in little old New York.
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People know I have a good time on stage. I love my life. I love my job.
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With its imagination and large sales, Apple has become the world's most valuable IT company. However people are starting to have doubts regarding Apple's silence on heavy metal pollution problems.
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In a repressed society, artists fulfil a sense of harking back to instant gratification, or immediate expression, by doing things that function on the edge of society, or outside of what is conventionally accepted.
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If a company knows it may have to pay a large amount of money if it poses an unreasonable threat to others, it will have a strong incentive to act better.
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See, the SAG awards caught me totally by surprise.
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I've had a good life, and was born to and among people I've admired and loved.
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I use the setting of a small rural Norwegian community - the kind of place that I know so intimately. I could never write a novel set in a big city, because, frankly, I don't know what it would be like.
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Hollywood has to be a better reflection of the world we live in.
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Too many actors get on an ego trip and won't do commercials, so they sit around for 20 years between jobs.
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The creative part of your brain needs to be stimulated. Sometimes you get blocked in the thing you do, because there's so much pressure to do it.
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Hell is paved with good intentions.
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I feel a great responsibility playing a historical figure because whether they were good or bad, I feel like the person deserves a fair shake. It's like being the executor of their estate in some ways.
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Nor do I understand how anyone can feel that industrial progress has been made at the expense of social progress nor why any American should suffer from the great delusion that any form of communism or statism, which promotes the dictatorship of the few instead of the initiative of the millions, can produce a happier and more prosperous society.
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It is awfully hard work doing nothing.
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In the long run, the aggressive civilizations destroy themselves, almost always. It’s their nature. They can’t help it.
