Carl Sagan Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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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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I am basically a citizen of the modern world, as we all are, praise the Lord and damn us all to hell.
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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 ability to reflect is associated with critical thinking and reasoning ability. And the capacity to be alone is one of the highest levels of development. It's important to know how to self-soothe and be confident of other people's love even when they're not there in front of you.
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I am not an originator but a transmitter.
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I have a picture of myself in my mind as I walk around every day, until I look in the mirror-and then I'm stunned.
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There's not a liberal America and a conservative America - there's the United States of America.
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When blithe to argument I come, Though armed with facts, and merry, May Providence protect me from The fool as adversary, Whose mind to him a kingdom is Where reason lacks dominion, Who calls conviction prejudice And prejudice opinion.
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Jingoistic rhetoric and puerile self-congratulatory nationalism.
