Carl Sagan Quotes
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I went through a lot in middle school, and you always try so many different looks and try to be so many different people. I finally realized I'm awkward, I'm lanky, and I'm going to embrace it - make fun of myself and just laugh.
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I keep returning to the central question facing over-50 women as we move into our Second Adulthood. What are our goals for this stage in our lives?
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My way of relaxing was always doing the opposite and playing the drums, but I need to be able to actually chill.
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My life has been devoted to the upliftment of the Filipino by reestablishing his identity and dignity.
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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.
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Poverty is an anomaly to rich people; it is very difficult to make out why people who want dinner do not ring the bell.
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People don't care about questionnaires.
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It seems to me opera is just as relevant as an expressive art as anything else.
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It's nice to know when you're a part of a story, it's nice to know at least something about the beginning, middle, and end.
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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.
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But even if I'm left high and dry at the end of this wild journey, just taking it is a great feeling.
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I wish at times I had finished school just to say I had.
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I think being on a set where people aren't being treated as equals, and with just a common level of decency and respect, is really uncomfortable.
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I used to always buy clothes too big, but I should have showed off instead of covering up.
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I take a grave view of the press. It is the weak slat under the bed of democracy.
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A man is as alive as he can communicate.
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I don't want to be idealized by a patient because of what I've written.
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I had wanted to be a sculptor throughout life, but to do so, I had to stop painting.
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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.
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I write slowly, and I write many, many drafts. I probably have to work as hard as anyone, and maybe harder, to finish a poem. I often write a poem over years, because it takes me a long time to figure out what to say and how best to say it.
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I would never put on 20 kilos and mess up my system because a role demands it. Hindi cinema doesn't offer you roles that get you an Oscar, anyway. Tom Hanks can do it in Hollywood; not us.
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Science and vision are not opposites or even at odds. They need each other. I sometimes hear other startup folks say something along the lines of: 'If entrepreneurship was a science, then anyone could do it.' I'd like to point out that even science is a science, and still very few people can do it, let alone do it well.
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Actors really are the scum of the earth. Their behavior makes overpaid rock stars look positively noble.
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Science is, at least in part, informed worship.
