Carl Sagan Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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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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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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I envision a day when a businesswoman will be having lunch, and then her phone will ring. When she opens it up, she will see an image of the latest Marc Jacobs coat that just arrived in stock. With a click of a button, she can purchase it and then find it waiting for her when she gets back to her office.
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I don't like post-modernism. It's cynical, and takes no discipline - you just copy. It doesn't allow a film to be open to reality.
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The measure of your quality as a public person, as a citizen, is the gap between what you do and what you say.
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We must all learn a good lesson - how to live together. That is the new challenge of the new world... learning to co-exist and not co-annihilate.
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You owe it to yourself to keep fit. No matter how busy or how involved you are, you should have some type of physical program to keep the body in tune.
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Astronomically, the U. S. S. R. and the United States are the same place.
