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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My theory was that what I had to do was make a study of human behavior.
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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 love performing in front of an audience. I like the questions; I like controversy.
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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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I had a pretty regular childhood, with a rad mum who taught me to love reading and thinking and laughing, and as far as I was concerned a regular dad who drove trucks for a living and did radio interviews on weekends and got stopped in the street a lot when we went out.
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But the happy ending has to do with the tricks of the narrative, not with life, or even love, which is an uncontrollable, changeable feeling, with nasty surprises that are alien to the happy ending.
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Action films can be like watching paint dry. You can just die in the trailer waiting for them to set up a shot, then you go out for a few minutes or an hour of endurance testing.
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How can you know what you're capable of if you don't embrace the unkown?
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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.
