Carl Sagan Quotes
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The will is commendable though the ability may be wanting.
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My mother, R. Rajalakshmi, taught at Annamalai University in Chidambaram, and during the day, I was well cared for by aunts and grandparents in the usual way of an extended Indian family.
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I'm from New York, so I'm not a big driver.
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My nose was part of my heritage, and if I had talent to sing and to act, why wasn't that enough?
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I am surrounded by great people.
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I had a good guitar, and I was a young, young kid.
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You don't have to feel confident to act confident. In fact, it's the most important acting job you can learn.
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The collective judgment of the electorate must be respected.
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I was successful materially, but I know life is much more than worldly success. I saw all these blessings God had given me. The way to give thanks is obedience to God.
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'Mr. Smith Goes to Washington' is one of the greatest films of all time.
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I've had so many injuries.
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I know about various fictional and folkloric vampire mythoses the way other people know about the personal life of celebrities.
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I think the most important thing for a listener is to realize that he, too, should not listen to music in a passive way; that if you sit in a concert hall and expect to be moved or taken off your seat by the music, it will not happen.
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When we have a favorite writer, it's always the places where they grew up, lived, worked, and that they recreated on the page that we most want to visit and commune with. Faulkner's Mississippi, Raymond Chandler's Los Angeles, etc. The mind of the reader longs to be somewhere, not just anywhere, and certainly not nowhere.
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Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.
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Kansas is great - and great for America, when, more and more, we honor every human life everywhere.
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As long as my body is in shape, my mind is working at its full capacity.
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Doing TV is great, but TV is for starring on, not for watching.
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The movie I've seen a million times is 'Steel Magnolias,' directed by Herbert Ross, starring Sally Field and Julia Roberts.
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I never did pick up any other instrument. Just other keyboard instruments and that was it.
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My principal business is giving commercial value to the brilliant - but misdirected - ideas of others.
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My uncle used to play cricket. I got used to the game at home. As kids we used to all wonder seeing the bats lying around the house. As we grew older, we realised what the game was all about, and then our interest in the game grew.
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It's a completely reasonable diet -- heavy on fruits and vegetables and fresh, seasonal foods. I'm totally for it. It's common sense in a nice package.
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Astronomically, the U. S. S. R. and the United States are the same place.
