Carl Sagan Quotes
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I could never let the teacher down. I always worked hard, too scared to get in trouble.
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Who are we? We find that we live on an insignificant planet of a humdrum star lost in a galaxy tucked away in some forgotten corner of a universe in which there are far more galaxies than people.
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The real bombs are my books, not me.
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I truly believe that you have to bring more content to the table to survive in radio than saying, 'There was AC/DC, and here's Journey,' because computers can do that.
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I developed a resistance to authority. Not to discipline - I learned that. But to authority. I like to think for myself. And I like to cause trouble.
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I went to Mission Bay High School. Me and my brother, we both went there.
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Many of depression's symptoms - exhaustion, insomnia, nausea, headaches, weight loss, weight gain - are physical ailments.
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As a girl I wanted the Cyndi Lauper hairstyle, with the shaved side of the head, or the Sharon Stone perm from 'Total Recall.'
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I am always the 'good guy', and I take on the idiotic jerks of the nation.
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But I loved the theatre and I was just doing theatre 24/7 and kept dropping courses because I didn't have the time and the chancellor thought that wasn't a good idea after awhile.
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I think the moment you start trying to please a fan base is when you start going downhill. I'm going to always, always write about what I want, even if it doesn't necessarily cater to most of them.
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My coming out, like most people's, was and is a gradual process - for no matter how out one is, there are always situations when one's with people who don't know, and one has the choice or, sometimes, the necessity of coming out to them.
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My look is a Modern Bohemian type thing.
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Ratings don't last. Good journalism does.
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As individuals, we will be judged in our lives by the totality of our actions. Not one thing will stand out. And I think that's how we get judged by our colleagues and that's how we get judged by the good lord.
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It's fun to come back to the town where I went to school and see all the new Wildcat players.
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I work out sort of moderately.
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The quality of his being one with the people, of having no artificial or natural barriers between him and them, made it possible for him to be a leader without ever being or thinking of being a dictator.
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You can never tell when princes will get squinty on you. You can never tell when they might suddenly feel their blood and go all royal.
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One ought to have a good memory when he has told a lie.
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As Shakespeare himself knew, the peace, the reconciliation that he created on the stage would not last an hour on the street.
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I don't think that you can let the storms of life overwhelm you. When you do that, you are no better than the craziness that caused you to be under attack.
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Jingoistic rhetoric and puerile self-congratulatory nationalism.
