Alan Stern Quotes
People know a planet when they see one, and I think that's a pretty darn good test, in fact, for planethood.
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It's a luxury to not have to just be performing with other people to have my music heard.
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If I can create some space that people haven't experienced before and if it stays with them or gives them a dream for the future, that's the kind of structure I seek to create.
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It's fun to look at people that are so good at acting that aren't actors, like David Bowie creating a mystique about rock n' roll.
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I try to beat back the producers and engineers so they - there's not an excess of stuff used to squeeze my voice to make it artificial. There's a person in there, and people will listen; if they hear another person speak to them, they'll listen because it's lonely out here.
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I've seen myself on those lists of the 100 best guitarists, and if they think that I'm that good, thank them. Thank God for them. But I don't think so.
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I would like to do something to help people and help the world.
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When I was little, my grandmother would take me to church with her, and she would introduce me to people.
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All my stories are about the action of grace on a character who is not very willing to support it, but most people think of these stories as hard, hopeless and brutal.
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I do things, and other people laugh at them. I rarely know what the joke is supposed to be or why they're laughing.
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Married people from my generation are like an endangered species!
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'Carrie' was a pretty big-budget movie at a real studio, with a director that had already done a bunch of things and had some notoriety, and Stephen King was the writer.
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I really admire people who have a natural sense of style. They have a super power.
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A man generally has two reasons for doing a thing. One that sounds good, and a real one.
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It is important not to trust people too much.
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The truth is that killing innocent people is always wrong - and no argument or excuse, no matter how deeply believed, can ever make it right. No religion on earth condones the killing of innocent people; no faith tradition tolerates the random killing of our brothers and sisters on this earth.
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I've always viewed myself as a brand. When I started 10 years ago, that was very controversial. 'Marketing' and 'PR' were dirty words for the literary world, but that has changed. Once the book is finished, I want as many people as possible to read it.
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Our music attracts the people that we rap about and make music about, and they come out and actually do it.
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Our brand of democracy is hard. But I can promise that a year from now, when I no longer hold this office, I'll be right there with you as a citizen - inspired by those voices of fairness and vision, of grit and good humor and kindness that have helped America travel so far.
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Every time a cool rock chick or actress seems to respect themselves as a strong woman, I'm like, 'Yeah!' And I love them, and they're my girls. And then they start to go downhill and people aren't paying attention anymore. So they start stripping their clothes off, because that's all they have left. I swear to everything I've ever known, I will never do that.
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I'd make a million songs with Game because we never had no real problem.
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I'm not cool at all. I'm the least cool person I know.
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You don't have a balanced life if you don't have art.
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I had displeased the jacobins by blaming their aristocratic usurpation of legitimate powers; the priests of all sorts by claiming religious liberty; the anarchists by repressing them; and the conspirators by rejecting their offers.
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People know a planet when they see one, and I think that's a pretty darn good test, in fact, for planethood.
