Alan Stern Quotes

I tell public audiences, don't go to a podiatrist for brain surgery; don't go to an astronomer for planetary science.

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• I personally don't like to rehearse so much. I really sort of trust my instinct.

  

  Carice van Houten
  • Trust
  • Like
  • Instinct

• Johnny Carson was a mean-spirited human being. And there are people that he has hurt that people will never know about. And for some reason, at some point, he decided to turn that kind of negative attention toward me. And I refused to have it.

  

  Wayne Newton
  • People
  • Attention
  • Hurt

• Free trade is not based on utility but on justice.

  

  Edmund Burke
  • Free
  • Justice
  • Trade

• I'm really thankful to God, man. Like now, I'm really making a real comeback with my group. With or without a record, with or without a movie. And behind all the negative press behind this movie.

  

  Ike Turner Ike & Tina Turner
  • God
  • Real
  • Movie

• My readers at that time were still men of letters; but there had to be other people waiting to read my poems.

  

  Salvatore Quasimodo
  • People
  • Time
  • Men

• In India we only read about death, sickness, terrorism, crime.

  

  A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  • Death
  • Terrorism
  • Sickness

• I saw Mercury Prize-winners Alt-J for the first time recently, touring their debut album 'An Awesome Wave,' and I'm still riding the high: they're the most musically dynamic and exciting band to have poured tune into my lug holes live since Bellowhead.

  

  Dan Stevens
  • Time
  • Live
  • High

• There is no point in pointing fingers because there are three fingers pointing back at you.

  

  Hansika Motwani
  • You
  • Back
  • Three

• Frequently you have a clash between the more sterile letter of the law and the justice that underlies it, and I think one of the things I've been trying more or less, where it was possible, is to go with the justice rather than the letter of the law.

  

  Harold H. Greene
  • Trying
  • Law
  • Justice

• Luckily I don't have to buy shoes anymore, because I design them! I'm off tour, so I can dive in and create the shoes that I want for my line. But okay, I did buy a pair of vintage combat boots because they were so beaten up - I had to have them.

  

  Fergie The Black Eyed Peas
  • Design
  • Shoes
  • Create

• People don't care about questionnaires.

  

  Larry Hogan
  • People
  • Care
  • About

• I'm very involved in the writing on every level.

  

  Fran Drescher
  • Writing
  • Very
  • Involved

• My favorite body part? My feet. They're not pretty, but they get me where I want to go.

  

  Patricia Heaton
  • Pretty
  • Want
  • Body

• The arrogance of age must submit to be taught by youth.

  

  Edmund Burke
  • Age
  • Youth
  • Arrogance

• There are varieties of Spanglish. There's Spanglish spoken by Cuban Americans in Miami called cubonics is different from Mexican American Spanglish, but thanks to the Internet, thanks to radio and television, thanks to what is happening in the classrooms, in the streets in the restaurants, we are finding a middle ground.

  

  Ilan Stavans
  • Different
  • American
  • Internet

• When I was 14 years old, I was talking about much more mature things because of the writers that I had at the time. My first album was tied into what the culture was at that moment, which was Jodeci, Al B. Sure, Puff, The Hitmen. I reaped the benefits of being part of Bad Boy's movement. That was my introduction.

  

  Usher
  • Time
  • Bad
  • Culture

• When someone says something that really hurts me, I have to retweet it to let it go.

  

  Damon Lindelof
  • Really
  • Hurts
  • Says

• When we too are armed and trained, we can convince men that we have hands, feet, and a heart like yours;.

  

  Veronica Franco
  • Men
  • Heart
  • Hands

• I've lived through a lifetime of crises and survived.

  

  Bess Myerson

• I just hated being around attention and stuff. In the clubhouse, I hated being around that. I didn't like anything to do with being around people, for the most part. I mean, I could be around them, just not in a talking situation, and that would make it even worse.

  

  Zack Greinke
  • People
  • Attention
  • Mean

• If it's a whole show of my own, I'll do more of what I think Del Shannon is. But for shows like Disneyland, I'll just do mainly hits. That's what they want to hear. I don't want to bore people. If I wanted that much to play nothing but 12 new songs, then I should go do it in a bar somewhere for peanuts.

  

  Del Shannon
  • People

• I no longer wield the power of the office for the government of the church, but in the service of prayer I remain, so to speak, within St. Peter's bounds. St. Benedict, whose name I bear as pope, shall be a great example in this for me. He showed us the way to a life which, active or passive, belongs wholly to the work of God.

  

  Pope Benedict XVI
  • Life
  • Work
  • Great

• Elite private-school educations leave students unprepared for a standardized test with which their public school counterparts are innately familiar.

  

  Eliot Schrefer
  • School

• I tell public audiences, don't go to a podiatrist for brain surgery; don't go to an astronomer for planetary science.

  

  Alan Stern
  • Science
  • Brain