Carl Sagan Quotes
Do we, holding that the gods exist,deceive ourselves with insubstantial dreamsand lies, while random careless chance andchange alone control the world?Carl Sagan
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I just can't get used to the idea of being somebody unreal in people's minds. I can't live my life like that. And it's just anathema to being a writer. It's not healthy.
Zadie Smith -
A lifetime of low calories has come naturally to the longest-lived people in the world... in the Japanese archipelago of Okinawa.
S. Jay Olshansky -
In order to raise money from somebody, you have to understand who is this person, not to deceive them but to understand them. What would be their motives for contributing money? Why do these people contribute money to some places, but not to others? That's attunement - treating everybody well, but not treating everybody the same.
Dan Pink -
Home to me is the world because my books have been translated into more than 30 languages.
Nawal El Saadawi -
A man will turn over half a library to make one book.
Samuel Johnson -
You have to be willing to ask questions that almost no one else would ask.
Samantha Bee
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I don't even know how to define myself. I'm a person who writes. It's something I enjoy, and hopefully people enjoy it as well.
Macaulay Culkin -
You must learn from the mistakes of others. You can't possibly live long enough to make them all yourself.
Sam Levenson -
The man who is intent on making the most of his opportunities is too busy to bother about luck.
B. C. Forbes -
Humor can be an incredible, lacerating and effective weapon.
Carl Hiaasen -
I think I'm a good judge of character.
Tamara Ecclestone -
Frankly speaking, it's only the script that matters to me the most. If I like the script, then I just commit to myself and go ahead with it. But I also look at the commitment and confidence of the director of the film because it's him who will shape the film.
Vidya Balan
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When you go to jail, there's so much simple stuff missing. You just want some good toilet paper or a real toothbrush, a real blanket and a real bed to lay in.
Ja Rule -
As a human being, anger is a part of our mind. Irritation also part of our mind. But you can do - anger come, go. Never keep in your sort of - your inner world, then create a lot of suspicion, a lot of distrust, a lot of negative things, more worry.
Dalai Lama -
There's not a fortune to be made doing voiceover work unless you're one of the main voices on The Simpsons. See, there's The Simpsons, and then there's everything else.
Patrick Warburton -
We were making new ones the second year. We were in syndication the second year. So we were on Saturday nights, prime time, every morning, and then they put it on Sunday evenings too. So it was all over the place.
Gavin MacLeod -
I do not welcome advice from actors; they are here to act.
Otto Preminger -
Many people find themselves with illness as they become successful: higher blood pressure and diabetes.
Zong Qinghou
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Governing has always been hard.
Pete Hoekstra -
Nothing can be fairer, or more noble, than the holy fervor of true zeal.
Moliere -
What a fucking great band we were.
Paul McCartney Paul McCartney and Wings -
I think people feel like there are all these things in our lives that we don't really have control over.
Nate Silver -
I absolutely am an environmentalist. I am probably more of an environmentalist than most people who live in the world, but I think that comes from my position in the world and that doesn't make me a better person.
Ian Bremmer -
Do we, holding that the gods exist,deceive ourselves with insubstantial dreamsand lies, while random careless chance andchange alone control the world?
Carl Sagan