Carolyn Porco (Carolyn C. Porco) Quotes
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We get a lot of cheese, no mice with that.
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If religion and science could be united on the common ground of biological conservation, the problem would be soon solved. If there is any moral precept shared by people of all beliefs, it is that we owe ourselves and future generations a beautiful, rich, and healthful environment.
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I resent the limitations of my own imagination.
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I stopped eating meat about six years ago, when I was working on the movie Selena. During the shoot, I had to hold a chicken for five hours-if you hold it and feel its little heart beating for hours, you just can't think about eating it.
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I prefer the society of one faithful person to an association of rapid talkers, who more than anything else seek admiration from one another.
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Possessing a healthy imagination is a necessary ingredient for creativity.
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I have my own matches and sulphur, and I'll make my own hell.
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I've always had bizarre, negative feelings about anything traditional, like marriage and family. I never thought something like that worked.
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People who say they don't see the acceleration of innovation is a wilful blindness. We are innovation at a wonderful speed for the basic things we think everyone should get.
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If your expectations aren't to be the best, then... you know, nobody rises to low expectations
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If I was trying to destroy this country, what I would do is find a way to drive wedges between all the people, drive the debt to an unsustainable level, and then step off the stage as a world leader and let our enemies increase while we decreased our capacity as a military person. And that's what Hillary Clinton doing.
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It's fantastic for the game, hopefully we have done a lot for it already and hopefully we can do a bit more yet.
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Any critic of Cezanne who described him as a painter of country scenes would be moving in the wrong direction. You must begin with the question of style . . .
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Customers have access to information that gives them much more control over their lives.
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We cannot tolerate one mistake from others, and yet God tolerates a planet covered with His own creation that live their entire lives sinning and denying Him, and yet continues to feed, clothe and protect them.
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Shamanism is not some obscure concern of cultural anthropologists. Shamanism is how religion was practiced for its first million years. Up until about 12,000 years ago there was no other form of religion on this planet. That was how people attained some kind of access to the sacred.
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A mere index hunter, who held the eel of science by the tail. Index-hunter is a term used mockingly, meaning one who acquires superficial knowledge merely by consulting indexes. The '[holding] the eel of science by the tail' allusion was used in 1728 by Alexander Pope (q.v.).
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Saturn is the most photogenic planet in the solar system.
