Carl Sagan Quotes
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I always went with my agenda, I just couldn't execute it.
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I think there's something very dark in the South African psyche. I think we live a lot of the time in a state of a very low-grade civil war; the levels of violence in South Africa are extremely high. In a way, the civil war that never happened is being played out in a covert way, so we live with a lot of very ugly things.
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Being a 911 operator means balancing seemingly contradictory skills. On one hand, operators have to be fanatically precise and well-organized. On the other, they must be able to establish rapport with panicky callers.
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The mind is but too naturally prone to pleasure, but too easily yielded to dissipation.
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I don't know how to ground myself without the other actor present.
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I can paint in jail.
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I was a bit odd. I read books and wanted to draw and go to art school.
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You've got to love acting and that's true for me. I love the idea of getting on stage and getting in front of a camera.
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I have no problems with remakes, and I think it's interesting. I mean, coming from the theater, we've been remaking 'Hamlet' for a hundred years, so it's no problem to me at all. A good story can be told in many different ways in different places; I just think it's interesting.
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Fighters today are much bigger, stronger and quicker and not only that but referees, judges and doctors back then were very strict and if your head got busted up the fight would be stopped.
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I feel that 'Tokoyo Drift' blew people away because not many people had high expectations for it.
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I start the day with either Radio 3 or Radio 4. I don't watch any daytime television at all.
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I have a different relationship with Chucky because he's been on top of my bookshelf in the corner of my living room for my entire life. He was a great tool for scaring friends, and when I see him in different theme parks I've been to, or in commercials, my heart swells a little bit, and I'm like, 'Aww! It's my Chucky!'
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I first met my husband when I was 15. He was very cool, in a band, all that kind of thing, but he took a long time to grow up. Our paths crossed again 10 years later, and after about two weeks I knew that was it. I'm glad I met him when I did, even though I was fairly young. Because I think sometimes you can crystallise into singledom.
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I did not have anything to do with these murders. Ever.
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In Iran, fundamentalism was fuelled to an extent by the regime of the Shah being supported by the West.
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There is no birth of consciousness without pain.
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I love performing in front of an audience. I like the questions; I like controversy.
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My mother never said to lose weight. Diets were never a big deal. My mom was always beautiful and voluptuous and curvy, and I always thought she was gorgeous.
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Some may wonder why I chose wildflowers when there are hunger and unemployment and the big bomb in the world. Well, I, for one, think we will survive, and I hope that along the way we can keep alive our experience with the flowering earth. For the bounty of nature is also one of the deep needs of man.
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Like anyone else, I enjoy my days off.
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I actually got into music because of art and because of skateboarding: All those graphics and punk bands and fanzines - they were glued together in my brain.
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Among the repulsions of atheism for me has been its drastic uninterestingness as an intellectual position. Where was the ingenuity, the ambiguity, the humanity (in the Harvard sense) of saying that the universe just happened to happen and that when we’re dead we’re dead?
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If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe.
