Carl Sagan Quotes
That kind of skeptical, questioning, 'don't accept what authority tells you' attitude of science - is also nearly identical to the attitude of mind necessary for a functioning democracy. Science and democracy have very consonant values and approaches, and I don't think you can have one without the other.
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I've always been proud that my name stands for peace.
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Some days the competition would beat me and I'd go home thinking awful thoughts, want to hide under the bed, depressed. But of course, in the news business, when you're working a daily news broadcast, you get your victories and defeats every day.
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Porridge and the urban lifestyle don't mix well.
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Come on... when you're running, if you see you're going to win, you're going to celebrate.
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I used to think I had ambition... but now I'm not so sure. It may have been only discontent. They're easily confused.
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I've never read for a movie, I've always been given them.
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Winning the peace is harder than winning the war.
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They have a crystalline sense of right and wrong; it disappears when they walk out the door with their M.B.A.
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Never for the sake of peace and quiet deny your convictions.
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I want to know what it's like to play in a Super Bowl and win one. My career will be great without it. But, personally, selfishly, I want to know what it feels like.
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I am no longer concerned with sensation and innovation, but with the perfection of my style.
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I don't sit under the tattoo gun unless I'm sold on it completely and it will define me as a person.
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So many good fortunes have come my way, and I'm trying to pay it forward by helping to raise money to complete 'Bulbul: Song Of The Nightingale,' a documentary that brings attention to the social and human injustices suffered by the Banchara tribe in India.
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For 'Ghostbusters,' the thing that makes it such an amazing franchise and an amazing idea is that it is adds the element of physics and technology. It's not just about ghosts. Who the heck came up with that? It is such a good idea, such a unique combination of stuff from different genres. Ghosts and sci fi.
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My style is very simple, but I love Reese Witherspoon, Kate Hudson and Kate Middleton.
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I have people who say, 'You should dress up like this, or you should dress more modest; you should cover up more.' And then, at the other end of the spectrum, you have, like, 'Why are you still wearing your scarf? You're in America, you know.'
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I think any song should sound good just played on a solitary instrument with the vocal. If you have those basics you have all you need. The production then just polishes that idea into the finished thing.
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He was happily married - but his wife wasn't.
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I'm desperately trying to unplug. The last thing I want is a watch that connects to my phone which connects to my iPad that connects to my computer that airplays to my TV.
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Some men make gain a fountain, whence proceeds A stream of liberal and heroic deeds; The swell of pity, not to be confined Within the scanty limits of the mind.
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I want to be a figure for prison reform. I think that the criminal justice system is rotten.
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I had the good luck a few years ago to visit the archeological site of Zippori in Israel ... I could see here displayed the Greek culture that Jesus decisively rejected, the same Greek culture that infiltrated the Christian religion soon after his death and has dominated Christianity ever since.
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I can usually find my own way out of whatever dicey literary or linguistic situations I wander into, but I have to work much harder at the science.
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That kind of skeptical, questioning, 'don't accept what authority tells you' attitude of science - is also nearly identical to the attitude of mind necessary for a functioning democracy. Science and democracy have very consonant values and approaches, and I don't think you can have one without the other.
