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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I just want to portray a very honest character that displays traits that people can truly relate to and can help them - the audience and myself because I learn from the characters as well - help them see themselves in a perspective that is outside of what they know already, and grow from that experience.
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I've been told not to tour down in Mexico. I am too well-known now. The kidnappers may think that my publisher will pay a ransom.
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I find that the three major administrative problems on a campus are sex for the students, athletics for the alumni and parking for the faculty.
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Politicians wishing to set a better tone should have the discipline to avoid televised cage matches.
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In the long run, the aggressive civilizations destroy themselves, almost always. It’s their nature. They can’t help it.
