Carl Sagan Quotes

Jingoistic rhetoric and puerile self-congratulatory nationalism.

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• I could never let the teacher down. I always worked hard, too scared to get in trouble.

  

  Zoe Sugg
  • Teacher
  • Down
  • Scared

• 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.

  

  Eddie Trunk
  • Believe
  • Journey
  • Computers

• 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.

  

  Hal Holbrook
  • Think
  • Myself
  • Discipline

• I went to Mission Bay High School. Me and my brother, we both went there.

  

  Vic Fuentes
  • School
  • High
  • Brother

• Many of depression's symptoms - exhaustion, insomnia, nausea, headaches, weight loss, weight gain - are physical ailments.

  

  Gayle Forman
  • Depression
  • Loss
  • Insomnia

• As a girl I wanted the Cyndi Lauper hairstyle, with the shaved side of the head, or the Sharon Stone perm from 'Total Recall.'

  

  Malin Akerman
  • Girl
  • Stone
  • Recall

• I am always the 'good guy', and I take on the idiotic jerks of the nation.

  

  Wally George
  • Nation
  • Idiotic
  • Jerks

• 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.

  

  Ed Sheeran
  • Trying
  • Moment
  • Start

• 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.

  

  Nancy Garden
  • People
  • Process
  • Choice

• My look is a Modern Bohemian type thing.

  

  Frances Bean Cobain
  • Look
  • Modern
  • Type

• Ratings don't last. Good journalism does.

  

  Dan Rather
  • Good
  • Journalism
  • Last

• 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.

  

  Rahm Emanuel
  • Good
  • Stand
  • Colleagues

• It's fun to come back to the town where I went to school and see all the new Wildcat players.

  

  Natalie Gulbis
  • School
  • Fun
  • See

• I work out sort of moderately.

  

  Lara Stone
  • Work
  • Workout
  • Out

• 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.

  

  Frances Perkins
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Quality

• 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.

  

  Tad Williams

• Our government has a responsibility to defend our borders, but we must do so in a way that makes us safer and upholds all that is decent and exceptional about our nation.

  

  Lindsey Graham
  • Responsibility

• Women's Studies can amount simply to compensatory history; too often they fail to challenge the intellectual and political structures that must be challenged if women as a group are ever to come into collective, nonexclusionary freedom.

  

  Adrienne Rich
  • Women
  • History
  • Political

• All great sages are as despotic as generals, and as ungracious and indelicate as generals, because they are confident of their impunity.

  

  Anton Chekhov
  • Great

• Most problems in poor countries are locally generated even though international factors do play a role.

  

  Andrew Mwenda

• This / is the use of trampolines / I will remember, the broken sunlight / Coming through the trees in a strange / Land, and lighting up my rising / And falling children, and their friends, / And the apples falling, / The new trees rising.

  

  Gerard Woodward
  • Children
  • Remember
  • Broken

• We had good white friends who advised us against taking the war path. My friend and brother, Mr. Chapman, told us just how the war would end.

  

  Chief Joseph
  • Good
  • Friends
  • War

• While Laurence was talking, a Tater Tot hit him in the head, but he just kept talking as if nothing had happened.

  

  Charlie Jane Anders
  • Talking
  • Head
  • Hit

• Jingoistic rhetoric and puerile self-congratulatory nationalism.

  

  Carl Sagan