Carl Sagan Quotes
I am often amazed at how much more capability and enthusiasm for science there is among elementary school youngsters than among college students.
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I was probably never going to get to do the kind of things dramatically that I really wanted to do, so I returned to theater from time to time, and to write, and produce. It's by no means sour grapes.
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I have definitely worked on that... being efficient and also being smarter with my pressure.
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There have been a lot of exercises and I've had to force myself to go out for walks even when I didn't feel like it, but apart from that, I am a lot better.
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The American people need to tell their member of Congress that we need a strong defense to protect us and to prevent wars. We can't get away with simply leading from behind and gutting our defenses.
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I loved London. In the 1970s... it was very exciting, really wild.
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While teaching, I also worked undercover in the lower courts by saying I was a young law teacher wanting experience in criminal law. The judges were happy to assist me but what I learned was how corrupt the lower courts were. Judges were accepting money right in the courtroom.
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We are not saints, but we have kept our appointment. How many people can boast as much?
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I had this little Bon Iver phase a few years back; 'Flume' was one of my favourite songs.
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Sometimes I can be misunderstood. I'm really competitive.
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We're on the verge of a financial collapse unless we balance the budget, and that means some really, really tough decisions.
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Cornwall has lots of folk and Celtic music and has that kind of surfer vibe as well. That was my kind of upbringing.
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We had times in '66 and '67 when we would pick up a platoon of privates out of the receiving barracks the week before we even graduated the platoon that we were on!
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Honestly, you have to take care of yourself. That's probably something I have learned on the road.
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Most people want security in this world, not liberty.
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What's really good is African drum music.
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For economist the real world is often a special case.
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It's like that Simpsons joke - they're filming a cow in a movie and they go, 'OK, we'll tape a bunch of cats together to make a cow', and it's like, 'Why don't you just use a cow?'. For some reason that is novel - like, 'Oh, my guitar sounds like a piano and now if I can just get my piano to sound like my guitar'.
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I don't ever want to feel complacent.
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Death and life are, for most of us, too complex to comprehend, but Alex Lemon can pretty casually, accurately, and marvelously correlate them to heavy metal and birthday cake.
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If it had not been for the discontent of a few fellows who had not been satisfied with their conditions, you would still be living in caves. Intelligent discontent is the mainspring of civilization. Progress is born of agitation. It is agitation or stagnation.
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The court is like a palace of marble; it's composed of people very hard and very polished.
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Jackie's dream was France, but mine was really art and Italy, as that was all I cared about through school. My history of art teacher, who saved my life at Farmington, was obsessed with Bernard Berenson, and I succumbed as well.
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Folly loves the martyrdom of fame.
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I am often amazed at how much more capability and enthusiasm for science there is among elementary school youngsters than among college students.
