Alan Stern Quotes
Just because Pluto or comets aren't as big as Jupiter doesn't mean they are not scientifically important - indeed, just the reverse is often true. Sometimes, great things come in small packages.
Quotes to Explore
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Your body is your temple, it's your home, and you must decorate it.
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I love so many styles of music.
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Money often determines not only who gets elected, but what gets done. Which voices do lawmakers listen to, the banks or home owners, coal companies, or asthma sufferers, the CEOs or the unemployed?
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War diminishes both civil and economic rights.
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Pacific Islands are among those that contribute least to global warming, yet suffer most.
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To die, to be really dead, that must be glorious. There are far worse things awaiting man than death.
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It is not empty rhetoric to talk of the Free World.
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In writing a series of stories about the same characters, plan the whole series in advance in some detail, to avoid contradictions and inconsistencies.
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I like boxes because of the secrets they hide.
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Near the end of my career, I saw things that didn't make too much sense to me when I was a kid.
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I adore Bette Davis and Vivien Leigh, but more because they were good actresses. That's what makes me interested in them, that they didn't present themselves as idols; they were just doing their jobs.
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We are all in this together. We will all make it or none of us will make it. If everyone cleans up their act except one big ole country, it isn't going to work.
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Being outside is a loose theme on 'Paracosm.' Acoustic-sounding instruments have that warmth to them that is really important to communicate. It was really important for me to tell a story – my favorite records have a narrative feel.
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It is faith that drives us to build, a belief that we cannot be limited by lack of nerve or airspace.
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Belize pledges it continued support to the aspirations of the 23 million people of Taiwan to be full participants in all organs and agencies of the international community.
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A melody is not merely something you can hum.
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The battle is all over except the 'shouting' when one knows what is wanted and has made up his mind to get it, whatever the price may be.
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In any country there must be people who have to die. They are the sacrifices any nation has to make to achieve law and order.
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My rejection of the idea of entertainment in its current form is based on the audience that comes with it.
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To see how many Italians are going out of Italy, the sort of exodus, a great generation leaving my country, I think is the worst nightmare for me as prime minister but also for the country, of course.
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We don't always know exactly what we're doing as parents. Children don't come with instruction manuals, as the saying goes. So it's important to me that I always question the choices I'm making as a father, to really stay alert and open to the balance between being too hard or too soft.
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Maybe they'll start making serialized movies. I watched the first couple seasons of '24' and it's really fun. I bought the DVD and watched it over a month or so and it's great. It's like reading a novel. It has a lot of possibilities that are more difficult to accomplish with a film.
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The best use of a journal is to print the largest practical amount of important truth: truth which tends to make mankind wiser, and thus happier.
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Just because Pluto or comets aren't as big as Jupiter doesn't mean they are not scientifically important - indeed, just the reverse is often true. Sometimes, great things come in small packages.
