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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In the morning a man walks with his whole body; in the evening, only with his legs.
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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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I went on iTunes and looked at versions of Christmas songs. Everyone has done them!
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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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In order for American Pie to have worked, you have to have a character who, even while he is humping a pie, the audience still likes.
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For now, capitalism is working to produce more money but does not see the people. This problem is getting worse across the world.
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I grew up in the southern United States in a city which at that time during the late '40's and early '50's was the most segregated city in the country, and in a sense learning how to oppose the status quo was a question of survival.
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There is little or no magic about them, except the ordinary everyday sort which helps them to disappear quietly and quickly when large stupid folk like you and me come blundering along, making a noise like elephants which they can hear a mile off.
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Astronomically, the U. S. S. R. and the United States are the same place.
