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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Despite overwhelming support for the United States to adopt English as its official language, we have still not taken that important step.
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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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Every act is a visual judgement.
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In the spring of 1936, I was introduced by friends to Jean Tatlock. In the autumn, I began to court her. We were at least twice close enough to marriage to think of ourselves as engaged.
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Astronomically, the U. S. S. R. and the United States are the same place.
