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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I also think we need to maintain distinctions - the doctrine of creation is different from a scientific cosmology, and we should resist the temptation, which sometimes scientists give in to, to try to assimilate the concepts of theology to the concepts of science.
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I want to say a little something that's long overdue, the disrespect to women has got to be through. To all the mothers and the sisters and the wives and friends, I wanna offer my love and respect till the end.
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It's always flattering when somebody you really respect and like wants you to be involved in their project - let alone writes a part with your voice in mind.
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A different language is a different vision of life.
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My mom was a seamstress, and I wish I'd learned to sew because I'm obsessed with 'Project Runway!'
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If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe.
