Chet Raymo Quotes
According to astronomers, every atom in my body was forged in a star. I am made, they insist, of stardust. I am stardust braided into strands and streamers of information, proteins and DNA, double helixes of stardust. In every cell of my body there is a thread of stardust as long as my arm.
Quotes to Explore
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Sir, I am a republican; and I desire to see this House observe the principles of that democracy which is ever on the lips of its members, and which, I hope, is in their hearts, as I know and feel it is in mine, and mean it shall be in my conduct.
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I suppose I shouldn't go around admitting I speak untruths on the radio. When I say something untrue on the air, I mean for it to be transparently untrue. I assume people know when I'm just saying something for effect. Or to be funny.
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There is more treasure in books than in all the pirate's loot on Treasure Island.
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My eyes are too small, and they're too close together, and I have a pointy nose. But who cares? Who cares?!
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The year hasn't started yet and it's already been the best I've ever had.
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When I was a kid, I wanted desperately to be a jazz musician. I would practice the trumpet for hours, but when I got braces, that messed up my ability to play, so all of a sudden I had all this free time.
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Life without Liberty is far worse than death.
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I tend to really duck down and make myself smaller than I already am.
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I didn't necessarily want to be famous growing up, but I knew I would be a good famous person because I'm not offended if somebody comes up to me and knows things about me and wants to engage me in a conversation.
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I think what's wrong with the fashion world, particularly men's fashion, is the lack of creativity behind it.
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Things were a lot simpler in Detroit. I didn't care about anything but boyfriends.
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I grew up in a farm town in Indiana. In the early years I played by myself, because there were no other musicians around.
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I don't at all like knowing what people say of me behind my back. It makes me far too conceited.
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Picket lines and picket signs Don't punish me with brutality Talk to me, so you can see Oh, what's going on What's going on.
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We face the future fortified with the lessons we have learned from the past. It is today that we must create the world of the future. Spinoza, I think, pointed out that we ourselves can make experience valuable when, by imagination and reason, we turn it into foresight.
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With my divorce, and even during the end of my marriage before it even got publicly bad, how I decided to cope with things was to go on the treadmill for an hour.
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I end up doing selfies 'cause I am so sad.
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I don't plan an awful lot in life just as I don't plan an awful lot in my fiction.
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The kiss always gets a hell of a reaction.
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Doesn't matter what you say or do; people can always find a way to call you a dick.
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To contemplate a thing implies maintaining oneself OUTSIDE it, resolved to keep a distance between it and ourselves.
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while snow-skiing with his family
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Tattoos are interesting, but at the same time they are also a mask - you are exhibiting your past life on your body.
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According to astronomers, every atom in my body was forged in a star. I am made, they insist, of stardust. I am stardust braided into strands and streamers of information, proteins and DNA, double helixes of stardust. In every cell of my body there is a thread of stardust as long as my arm.
