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.
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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.
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Free trade is not based on utility but on justice.
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My readers at that time were still men of letters; but there had to be other people waiting to read my poems.
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In India we only read about death, sickness, terrorism, crime.
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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.
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There is no point in pointing fingers because there are three fingers pointing back at you.
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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.
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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.
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People don't care about questionnaires.
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I'm very involved in the writing on every level.
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My favorite body part? My feet. They're not pretty, but they get me where I want to go.
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The arrogance of age must submit to be taught by youth.
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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.
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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.
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When someone says something that really hurts me, I have to retweet it to let it go.
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When we too are armed and trained, we can convince men that we have hands, feet, and a heart like yours;.
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The fans sing my name around the world. When I meet fans, they ask, 'How are you? All good with your family?'
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However, I must not indulge in homespun wisdom here before so distinguished an assembly, especially as I am to be followed by a representative of science.
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Money was a much saner goal than adoration. They'll both drive you crazy but if I'm going to blow my brains out for five years, I want something to show for it.
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Foreign policy is now a huge field. It isn't just people who are studying political science. There are so many aspects to it in terms of understanding hard science for people who are studying climate change, or people who are interested in health policy or food security, or people who care about education.
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To forgive and to be forgiven are the two points of holy magnificence and holy modesty; round these two centres the whole doctrine of largesse revolves.
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I tell public audiences, don't go to a podiatrist for brain surgery; don't go to an astronomer for planetary science.
