Carl Sagan Quotes
For a long time the human instinct to understand was thwarted by facile religious explanations.
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Kids love to look at pictures of themselves.
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I like Dolce & Gabbana's fragrance Light Blue - it's my everyday perfume.
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Weirdly, often the more I write, the more ideas I have.
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Playing drums feels like coming home for me. Even during the White Stripes I thought: 'I'll do this for now, but I'm really a drummer.' That's what I'll put on my passport application.
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I've been accused of having very long ingredient lists, and I guess there's some truth in that.
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There's nothing wrong with being anthropomorphic. That's how we understand the world.
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Let your soul stand cool and composed before a million universes.
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If you're a writer, write. You just keep writing. And if you're a filmmaker, you keep doing what you can to keep telling your stories; you don't stay on the one. Keep moving forward and doing what you can to tell whatever story you can tell, be it via writing, be it via filming it.
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Someone like Amy Poehler, I don't know, but I feel like I know her. I think everyone feels like they know her.
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It is a political thriller. It's very action packed and it's very exciting, but at the same time it's a very big soulful love story about longing and loss. They're not separate, they're completely dependent on one another.
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Shakespeare lets us see real people undergoing real processes, with real feelings.
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We were like a stock company at Warners. We didn't know any of the stars from the other studios.
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I love music. I still play cello a few times a week.
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I tend not to have any references to anything. I just jump into the script in front of me. If you reference too much, you have no idea if the performances are right.
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I have had the good fortune to be able to climb the highest mountain on each of the seven continents. I have enjoyed the freedom I had gained from building a successful business from scratch, making some money, and creating the lifestyle I wanted.
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I have a little dictaphone and if a sound takes my fancy or if a lyric comes to me in the middle of the night I'll just record it there and then.
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That's what hip-hop is: It's sociology and English put to a beat, you know.
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Peace goes into the making of a poem as flour goes into the making of bread.
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Let me back up a little and tell you why I prefer writing to real life: You can rewrite. A novel, for example, can be cleaned up, altered, trimmed, improved. Life, on the other hand, is one big messy rough draft.
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When we get people to log in, they end up using Quora a lot more, and we can provide a lot better experience for them. We can show them a personalized news feed; we can send them digest emails and do all this ranking to find some stuff they want to read.
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Without sharks, you take away the apex predator of the ocean, and you destroy the entire food chain.
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There are some things worthy of risking your life for.
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If right now our emotional reaction to seeing a certain person or hearing certain news is to fly into a rage or to get despondent or something equally extreme, it's because we have been cultivating that particular habit for a very long time.
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For a long time the human instinct to understand was thwarted by facile religious explanations.
