Alan Stern Quotes
One thing scientists do is to find order among a large number of facts, and one way to do that across fields as diverse as biology, geology, physics and astronomy is through classification.
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I don't understand it. Jack will spend any amount of money to buy votes but he balks at investing a thousand dollars in a beautiful painting.
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There are always reasons for people's behaviour, and it's easy just to dismiss them and assume that we already know their story, especially if they're no good at showing their emotions. Life gives you all these knocks, it's so easy to form a shell to protect yourself. I've done it myself.
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When I read the 'Country Strong' script, I thought, 'Can't they just hand-double it? Can't I just do the rest of the movie and not have to do the performing?' It took me six months to learn to sing and play guitar at the same time.
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Judea and Samaria can be a place of refuge for the nation.
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It fits my ADD, so that's good. Because I really can't focus on anything for too long. And 'Top Gear's really the easiest thing to do because I'm with my pals. It's like coming home with my friends. We're having so much fun making the show.
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Creative output, you know, is just pain. I'm going to be cliche for a minute and say that great art comes from pain.
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I'm not the perfect model of what an athlete should be, mentally or physically.
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I believe in past lives but I know nothing about mine and I don't want to know. I live in the present, taking one day at a time.
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The point of revenge is not in the completion but in the process.
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When people are in the midst of really heavy stuff and still have a sense of humor, I admire that.
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Who does understand life?
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But I've worked where they've had animals before, and animal wranglers, the people who raise animals and train animals for films and television, they're all very, very professional.
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Greater than the tread of mighty armies is an idea whose time has come.
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As a citizen of the post-historical variety, I am in continual mourning and prepared for worse.
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When you're young and have the opportunity, it's crucial to learn as much as possible about your profession from every possible angle.
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When you come to a roadblock, take a detour.
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My icons do not raise up the blessed savior in elaborate cathedrals. They are constructed concentrations celebrating barren rooms. They bring a limited light.
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I like every girl. Every kind of girl that there is, I like.
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I often do that with characters, going back to my bloody drama-school days, in terms of equating them with creatures. And it's very much there as a theme of all the seasons of 'Fargo' as well: the predator and the prey.
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Of the 25 songs we've recorded there were 24 that we wanted to have on an album. That wouldn't have worked. So when one of our wise managers suggested the idea of considering two different album, it cleared the way for us.
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The trouble with many men is that they have got just enough religion to make them miserable. If there is not joy in religion, you have got a leak in your religion.
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Estate taxes make every one of us nervous. If there’s an owner who isn’t, he has his head in the sand.
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He is the best sailor who can steer within fewest points of the wind, and exact a motive power out of the greatest obstacles.
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One thing scientists do is to find order among a large number of facts, and one way to do that across fields as diverse as biology, geology, physics and astronomy is through classification.
