Carl Sagan Quotes
We start out a million years ago in a small community on some grassy plain; we hunt animals, have children, and develop a rich social, sexual, and intellectual life, but we know almost nothing about our surroundings.
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If you can dream it, then you can achieve it. You will get all you want in life if you help enough other people get what they want.
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I'm the complete opposite of every clean cut, decent-looking guy you could ever think of. Yet, I have the biggest heart in the world.
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I endeavour to read more, be more informed on gay rights. Whatever floats your boat is my outlook. It's hard enough to be happy without having legislation against you, too.
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Excellence is not a skill, it's an attitude.
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To make money, I did portraits . The truth is so bizarre! I'm kind of embarrassed. I was like a 19th-century pirate painter. I'd say, 'Your mom would love a painting of you!' A salesman! I'd hawk paintings.
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I believe in luck. My luck's real streaky.
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We're all capable of mistakes, but I do not care to enlighten you on the mistakes we may or may not have made.
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Procrastination is one of the most common and deadliest of diseases and its toll on success and happiness is heavy.
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I've never necessarily chosen to be a bachelor. I've had girlfriends throughout the last 20 or 30 years. It's just that there were times when I met people that fascinated me and times I didn't.
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You have no ability, if you're a financial institution and you're threatened with criminal prosecution, you have no ability to negotiate.
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I've been designing since I was 8. I started sketching dresses I could wear when skating. I was always involved in all aspects of skating, not just the technique, the choreography, the music, but the visual aspects, too - what I should wear.
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Christmas is a season for kindling the fire for hospitality in the hall, the genial flame of charity in the heart.
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My experience is that's rare - that you have a script that is... what they call 'film-ready.'
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On the ground, Pakistan is the most virulently anti-American state on the planet.
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Galley Molina's a great inspiration and role model for a lot of young kids out there.
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A new era of responsibility is here.
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I'm engaged to Hollywood. If there's something I find I have to do, I'll do it. Otherwise, I'll just stay home and have a vacation.
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There's always going to be someone with a bigger toy than yours.
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Uncertainty doesn't make life worth living, quite, but it does make striving and gambling worth attempting.
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Of course, all writers draw upon their personal experiences in describing day-to-day life and human relationships, but I tend to keep my own experiences largely separate from my stories.
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I try to stay friends with everybody because you might go back and work with somebody who you had a horrible experience with and it could be great the next time. You never know which way it's going to go, never say never.
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A purpose gives meaning to life. It is like the hub in a wheel -- with every spoke fitted into it to make a strong and perfect circle. Without such a hub, spokes will not radiate evenly and your wheel will lack strength, will tend to break apart on the first good bump it hits. Given a strong hub, a strong purpose, a person can take a surprising number of shocks and bumps on the outside rim without sustaining permanent damage.
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Life's perhaps the only riddle That we shrink from giving up.
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We start out a million years ago in a small community on some grassy plain; we hunt animals, have children, and develop a rich social, sexual, and intellectual life, but we know almost nothing about our surroundings.
