Carolyn Porco (Carolyn C. Porco) Quotes
While I was there, Voyager flew by Saturn. I got involved with a person who was a member of the imaging team and started working on data from Saturn. With all that data coming in, the imaging team didn't have enough hands or scientists to work on all of it.
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We all have these challenges and stereotypes that exist, but you can't let that hold you down... If that's the first thing you think about as a black woman - the challenge that lies ahead - you are thinking in the wrong direction, in my opinion.
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In my opinion it is less shameful for a king to be overcome by force of arms than by bribery.
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No civilisation can claim to have a monopoly on universal values and no one can claim to be always faithful to his own values.
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The thing about being black and having a different accent, in the beginning, is that it makes you foreign.
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Reddit strives to be a community-oriented link-sharing and news site, which means that all our content is submitted and voted on by members of our community. We don't interfere with that process at all, either in an editorial or curation capacity.
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Some people think they should go to Heaven but not have to die to get there. Sorry, but that's simply not how it works.
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Now I've been free, I know what a dreadful condition slavery is. I have seen hundreds of escaped slaves, but I never saw one who was willing to go back and be a slave.
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The world is a beautiful book, but of little use to him who cannot read it.
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I believe that with the help of foreign countries - and under that condition only, because they have no other source of financing - the new government may temporarily extricate Georgia from the current situation.
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I had an agent who spent eight years - eight years! - trying to sell my stories. She sold other people's work; she just didn't sell mine.
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I like to get a salad or fruit in me - just some good energy food - and then a plate a pasta with a breast of chicken.
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How one handles success or failure is determined by their early childhood.
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I am not an early bird. I go to bed normally between midnight and 1 o'clock, so it is understandable that I cannot be an early bird. I wake up around 9 o'clock.
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Very early in my career, I thought I had to conform to one style of leadership - lead by being the loudest one in the room, with the sharpest elbows.
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I think I'm a very American director, but I probably should have been making movies somewhere around 1976. I never left the mainstream of American movies; the American mainstream left me.
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I know sometimes I can come off like a lonely spinster in a tower. That's not me at all.
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Acting is a learning process. And what you are doing in your early films is essentially picking up the nuances, the tricks of your trade. And somewhere along the line, you become analytical and learn to enjoy what you are doing.
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Use anything you can think of to understand and be understood, and you'll discover the creativity that connects you with others.
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There is no doubt that some in Iran have an unhealthy focus on Bahrain, as some of the broadcast coverage shows.
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I would warn you that I do not attribute to nature either beauty or deformity, order or confusion. Only in relation to our imagination can things be called beautiful or ugly, well-ordered or confused.
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Dividers seek to make themselves look or feel better by making others feel worse. They damage relationships, fracture teams and organizations, and create havoc in people's lives.
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Affirmative action is a little like the professional football draft. The NFL awards its No. 1 draft choices to the lowest-ranked team in the league. It doesn't do this out of compassion or guilt. It's done for mutual survival. They understand that a league can only be as strong as its weakest team.
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Look long enough, out or in, and you’ll be glad you are who you are.
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While I was there, Voyager flew by Saturn. I got involved with a person who was a member of the imaging team and started working on data from Saturn. With all that data coming in, the imaging team didn't have enough hands or scientists to work on all of it.
