Carolyn Porco (Carolyn C. Porco) Quotes
Spokes are one of those Saturn-system phenomena that we are keenly interested in understanding.
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I'm a pretty girl who's a model who doesn't suck as an actress.
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Music is love, love is music, music is life, and I love my life. Thank you and good night.
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Getting hit on by both genders is such a champagne problem.
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Basically, what it comes down to is I love what I do. I don't do it for fame. I don't do it for money. I just love it.
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If I am not for myself, who will be for me? If I am not for others, what am I? And if not now, when?
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One problem with age is that patience begins to ebb.
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Yes, I do come with certain reservations, and I'm not OK with certain things, but rather than focusing on what I don't want to do, I focus on what I do want to do, and I bring that energy, and that happens.
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I try to look at people like Adele and Norah Jones, who are very successful but don't have to deal with scandals.
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I do probably come down a little hard on a group of people I call the 'blue chip gays.' I mean people who have managed to become very, very famous and are still very famous partly through staying in the closet, like Jasper Johns, Cy Twombly, Susan Sontag, Harold Brodkey and others.
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The human imagination has already come to conceive the possibility of recreating human society.
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With thrillers, there's such a fine line between what's good and what's cheesy and corny.
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For we by conquest, of our soveraine might, And by eternall doome of Fate's decree, Have wonne the Empire of the Heavens bright.
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The only reason they come to see me is that I know that life is great - and they know I know it.
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We thought: we're poor, we have nothing, but when we started losing one after the other so each day became remembrance day, we started composing poems about God's great generosity and - our former riches.
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I learned that the songs that mean the most to me are the songs that I write by myself. While there were people I wrote really well with, particularly Gary Nicholson and Delbert McClinton, and I really enjoyed the experience, I came away from it feeling like I need to write by myself.
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If we do not play 'Alabama,' our fans would kill us.
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I love any book that makes my family seem almost normal.
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I didn't start thinking about what I wanted to do professionally until I was 17. I was a hippie, but I did write.
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I had a sort of classic moment when a friend of mine rang up and said she'd just been to a funeral, and in the middle of the eulogy, this kid had taken out the phone and had a whole proper text conversation - while everyone was weeping!
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I think there is a big disjuncture between what we are served up as consumers and what we are served up as citizens.
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I'm very happy to sing whatever I'm singing. I've always enjoyed any role I've been given at a certain time. They've all been favourites, they've all been wonderful pieces to play.
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We want more opportunities for women's players throughout the world.
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I never had one beer. If I bought a six-pack of beer, I kept drinking till all six beers were gone. You have to have that kind of understanding about yourself. I haven't had a drink now in 12 years.
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Spokes are one of those Saturn-system phenomena that we are keenly interested in understanding.
