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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The first time you watch a movie that you like, all of the magic works on you. It's an experience of having a world unfold in front of you. But if you watch it again, you start to see where the seams are.
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Although violence and the use of force may appear powerful and decisive, their benefits are short-lived. Violence can never bring a lasting and long term resolution to any problem, because it is unpredictable and for every problem it seems to solve, others are created. On the other hand, truth remains constant and will ultimately prevail.
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By the very act of arguing, you awake the patient's reason; and once it is awake, who can foresee the result?
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I can't understand why someone wouldn't have a degree of sympathy for people that had to flee their country, travel to try and find their home somewhere, and nobody wants them. How could you not be a little bit sympathetic?
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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.
