Alan Stern Quotes

The Kuiper Belt is the largest mapped structure in our planetary system, three times as big as all the territory from the sun out to Neptune's orbit.

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• There are a lot of films that are drug dramas, and we didn't want to tell Scarface again.

  

  Ted Demme
  • Want
  • Drug
  • Tell

• How many inner resources one needs to tolerate a life of leisure without fatigue.

  

  Natalie Clifford Barney
  • Life
  • Without
  • Leisure

• It's totally mistaken to suppose that an armed escort is going to give a journalist any protection - on the contrary, journalists who turn up surrounded by armed personnel are just turning themselves into targets and in even worse danger.

  

  Kate Adie
  • Up
  • Danger
  • Protection

• Nothing is to come, and nothing past: But an eternal now, does always last.

  

  Abraham Cowley
  • Past
  • Always
  • Now

• The idea of it becomes a little freaky if you're dealing with someone who has trouble differentiating between fantasy and reality, but that's a concern no matter what kind of movie you're dealing with.

  

  Adam Arkin
  • Movie
  • Reality
  • Kind

• I did 'Mad Men' and I still have people come up to me like, 'Are you actually a lesbian?' Really? Just because I play one on TV? People will think what they're gonna think.

  

  Zosia Mamet
  • People
  • Think
  • Play

• I've learned to be pragmatic, but I don't sacrifice my principles, my values.

  

  Xavier Becerra
  • Sacrifice
  • Values
  • Pragmatic

• I think there are only two kinds of heroes: the flamboyant ones and the angry-yet-silent types. Every character on TV falls into either category.

  

  Karan Singh Grover
  • Character
  • Think
  • Angry

• Death obsesses me, yes it does. I can't really understand why it doesn't obsess everyone - I think it does really, I'm just a little more out about it.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • Why
  • Think
  • Death

• Maybe you have to know darkness before you can appreciate the light.

  

  Madeleine L'Engle
  • Light

• Persistance, dedication Consistent, motivation, resistance to stagnation of information, distribute it free to the entire population No hesitation, makin it public No privitazation from corporations

  

  Talib Kweli Black Star
  • Free
  • motivation
  • Dedication

• I was weeping because Richard Parker left me so unceremoniously. What a terrible thing it is to botch the farewell. I am a person who believes in form, in the harmony of order. Where we can, we must give things meaningful shape.

  

  Yann Martel
  • Meaningful
  • Farewell

• To the last moment of his breathOn hope the wretch relies;And e'en the pang preceding deathBids expectation rise.

  

  Oliver Goldsmith
  • Hope
  • Expectation

• Psychologically, the internet is very marxist. Everyone with a modem has access to the same information, so we all get jammed into a technological middle class.

  

  Chuck Klosterman

• Thanks for the timesThat you've given me.The memories are all in my mind.And now that we've comeTo the end of our rainbow,There's somethingI must say out loud.You're once, twiceThree times a lady.

  

  Lionel Richie
  • Mind
  • Memories
  • Thanks

• Nothing helps you sleep at night so much as being absolutely certain that you're right, and everyone else is evil.

  

  Laurell K. Hamilton
  • Night
  • Evil
  • Sleep

• Every one who has a heart and eyes sees that you, working men, are obliged to pass your lives in want and in hard labor, which is useless to you, while other men, who do not work, enjoy the fruits of your labor-that you are the slaves of these men, and that this ought not to exist.

  

  Leo Tolstoy
  • Work
  • Men
  • Heart

• Last time I checked, the digital universe was expanding at the rate of five trillion bits per second in storage and two trillion transistors per second on the processing side.

  

  George Dyson
  • Time
  • Universe

• His zeal in the cause of freedom was infinitely superior to mine. Mine was as the taper light, his was as the burning sun. Mine was bounded by time. His stretched away to the silent shores of eternity. I could speak for the slave. John Brown could fight for the slave. I could live for the slave. John Brown could die for the slave.

  

  Frederick Douglass
  • Time
  • Live
  • Freedom

• When all the dark clouds roll away And the sun begins to shine I see my freedom from across the way And it comes right in on time Well it shines so bright and it gives so much light And it comes from the sky above Makes me feel so free makes me feel like me And lights my life with love.

  

  Van Morrison
  • Life
  • Time
  • Free

• I am very straight-forward and direct. If I disagree with something, I say something about it.

  

  Simon Baker
  • Direct
  • Disagree

• I'm Jewish. I don't work out. If God had wanted us to bend over, he would have put diamonds on the floor.

  

  Joan Rivers
  • Work
  • God

• The Kuiper Belt is the largest mapped structure in our planetary system, three times as big as all the territory from the sun out to Neptune's orbit.

  

  Alan Stern
  • Sun