Carl Sagan Quotes
Modern science has been a voyage into the unknown, with a lesson in humility waiting at every stop. Many passengers would rather have stayed home.
Quotes to Explore
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I know I'm in the exceptional position of having money, but I didn't have it for many decades. I'm always trying to get shows put on for 25 per cent less production costs.
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But... watching Steven Barnes taught me to treat my life like an art form.
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There is so much to do in my house, in every little corner. It's just like anybody, it's like one step at a time. I try to decorate one space and a pipe breaks or whatever - you know how it is.
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Death is always a reality, and life is incredibly short.
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Being on Broadway and getting a Tony nomination - this has been an incredible ride, from rather humble beginnings.
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Let's start to have a grown up debate in this country about who we are and where we want to go and what kind of country we want to build.
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It's no easy task to either make money online as a publisher or to advertise your product in a world where attention is so fleeting and divided.
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We happen to be the vanguard of that revolutionary struggle because we are the most dispossessed.
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Novelists get to say plenty in their massive tomes; rock singers only get four-minute songs with two verses and a chorus' worth of lyrics, and so there's a real pleasure in accessing the intelligence behind the music, even if it doesn't qualify as 'great literature.'
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I'd love to work with Kanye West. He's gone through a lot of stuff in the public eye, but his music is genius. He always takes risks.
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And when you look at the Turtle's movie there is something there, definitely something there.
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I love it and really, really enjoy weight training. I love free weights. I find it really rewarding.
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Clothes are not frippery. Properly done, they can be an art form.
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I urge researchers to make use of the opportunities that are available to them and to do all they can to fulfill the promise that stem cell research offers.
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I'm for people bettering themselves, no matter who they are and where they are, doing all they can to be all they can be.
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Memory is a way of telling you what's important to you.
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The bottom line: health care reform is about the patient, not about the physician.
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I just totally do not believe in this sort of Bart Simpson character who infects so much of our literature and film and TV stuff nowadays, these know-it-all kids who seem to understand the hypocrisy of the adult world so thoroughly and can talk about it with such articulateness. That's bunk.
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I think among the population at large, people are openly fascinated with crime and don't feel any shame over it. It's only the opinion-makers and the 'opinion elites' who turn up their noses.
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The habit of building houses upon piles, which was first forced upon the people by the position they had chosen, was afterwards followed as a matter of taste, just as it is in Holland.
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In this electronic age we see ourselves being translated more and more into the form of information, moving toward the technological extension of consciousness.
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I live in Santa Fe, New Mexico. And I travel a tremendous amount. I'm in New York and California a lot, but then also I like faraway places a lot.
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Modern science has been a voyage into the unknown, with a lesson in humility waiting at every stop. Many passengers would rather have stayed home.
