Carl Sagan Quotes
Our species needs, and deserves, a citizenry with minds wide awake and a basic understanding of how the world works.
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We were both in love with him. I fell out of love with him, but he didn't.
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In tennis, because of the way it's scored, I don't think that scoring one point out of luck is ever decisive in winning. But, of course, it depends on the moment.
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It would make everything I worked for meaningless if baseball is integrated but political parties were segregated.
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The father figure doesn't impress me. I have a very friendly relationship with my father, but that wasn't always the case. My mother had custody, and I only saw him every other weekend. I never knew him well enough for him to inspire me.
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Good writers know that crime is an entre into telling a greater story about character. Good crime writing holds up a mirror to the readers and reflects in a darker light the world in which they live.
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I've never been that comfortable talking about myself or about acting.
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We interpret our agreement with the IMF - our participation in the IMF's system of cooperation - as a borrowing agreement. The IMF sees it as an economic policy agreement. This is not in our interest.
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I am thankful to the Nobel committee for recognising the plight of millions of children who are suffering in this modern age.
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If you only believe that you're an artist when you have a big advance in your pocket and a single coming out, I would say that's quite soulless. You have to have a sense of your own greatness and your own ability from a very deep place inside you. I am the one with the litmus test in my hands of what people need to hear next.
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Getting hit on by both genders is such a champagne problem.
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Sweden is the home of my ancestors, and I have reserved a special place in my heart for Sweden.
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I love music. I still play cello a few times a week.
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I wasn't a great debater.
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You can have the best people in the business, but if they're not collaborating - and they're butting heads - then it's all going to go south.
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The difference was you worked for Nixon, and with Ford.
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I have a job to do on policy. And I think that's what people want their governor to do. Not politics, policy.
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There have been moments in my career when I've had to be tough and I've had to step up to the plate - but usually that's because a man has underestimated me. But other than that, I wouldn't say I'm a tough person.
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Work eight hours and sleep eight hours and make sure that they are not the same hours.
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However, I also want to say this. The ranch standoff that took place out in Nevada was not about a man named Cliven Bundy. At the heart of this issue was my belief that our government is simply out of control. Now, to me, this was about a federal agency’s dangerous response to a situation that could have resulted in a catastrophe, and that means people dying and people being shot, kind of comparable to what we saw in Waco, Texas.
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Citizenship is the chance to make a difference to the place where you belong.
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Until men learn to celebrate and operate on the feminine aspect of themselves and stop the oppression of women, children, the environment, other species, we don't have a world to live in. It's not a world that anyone chooses to live in.
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I'll never believe that Americans have racticed in our history anything close to the purest form of democracy of the world. Because there are lots of democracies around the world that function better than ours does. It's always been that way. There's some truth to the idea that it's rigged, but there is a way that it's supposed to work that.
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Our species needs, and deserves, a citizenry with minds wide awake and a basic understanding of how the world works.
