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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The simpler I keep things, the better I play.
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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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My parents, Gary and Patricia, let me be in my world. They never told me what I couldn't do. It helped me adapt in a positive way.
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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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I'm just a black hole for stuff. No one should ever hand me anything, because I get so easily distracted. I'll be like, 'Oh, look, something shiny!' I'm glad I never learned how to drive. I would be really dangerous.
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Family is the most important thing: you can't buy them with money.
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It was the special purpose of Christ's appearance upon earth to bring immortality to light.
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For me, this world of questions and the provisional, this chase after an answer that was always put off to the next day, all that was euphoric. I lived in the future.
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We become lovers when we see Romeo and Juliet, and Hamlet makes us students. The blood of Duncan is upon our hands, with Timon werage against the world, and when Lear wanders out upon the heath the terror of madness touches us. Ours is the white sinlessness of Desdemona, and ours, also, the sin of Iago.
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Our species needs, and deserves, a citizenry with minds wide awake and a basic understanding of how the world works.
