Alan Stern Quotes
As a planetary scientist, I don't know what else to call Pluto: It's big and round and thousands of miles wide.
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I feel most akin as an artist, in my life and my career, to Agatha Christie.
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But for my faith in God, I should have been a raving maniac.
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When you're a war correspondent, the reader is for you because the reader is saying, 'Gee, I wouldn't want to be doing that.' They're on your side.
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I think if one wants to be in a continual state of insanity one should stay married to that writing partner.
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As long as government is allowed to collect all Internet data, the perceived exigency will drive honest civil servants to reach more broadly and deeply into our networked lives.
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For the Negro, Andrew Johnson did less than nothing when once he realized that the chief beneficiary of labor and economic reform in the South would be freedmen. His inability to picture Negroes as men made him oppose efforts to give them land; oppose national efforts to educate them; and above all things, oppose their rights to vote.
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I don't know that I would want to be married again, but I do love companionship.
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I'm not graceful.
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I went to Phoenix, Arizona for 'Angel Unchained,' and they'd hire the bike gang from Phoenix to be extras in the movie.
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I worked with James Orange and Hosea Williams as a teenager, and he's portrayed in the movie by Wendell Pierce. So, for me to be able to come in, 20 years after working with them as a teenager, and to portray Reverend James Orange in 'Selma' is mind-blowing.
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Blemishes are hid by night and every fault forgiven; darkness makes any woman fair.
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It is a grievous sin in the sight of God for any man to presume to baptize, unless God has authorized him by new revelation to baptize in his name.
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I'm going to do some consulting for nonprofits and arts agencies. These are areas I'm interested in that didn't come directly out of Harvard, but certainly I started looking at things in a different manner.
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I have written only what I have thought through, felt through and suffered through.
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Color television! Bah, I won't believe it until I see it in black and white.
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Let there be no illusions about the difficulty of forming this kind of a national community. It's tough, difficult, not easy. But a spirit of harmony will survive in America only if each of us remembers that we share a common destiny.
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It's great that with the Internet, there has come this sense of creative independence.
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I have a file of letters and bits of ephemera from friends who have died. I have had lots of friends who died of AIDS.
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To God on whom we rely knows what suffering is all about- not merely in the way that God knows everything, but by experience.
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I am a member of Congress. And I do have a choice as to whether or not to continue as DNC chair and be neutral and do everything I can and put in the kind of time and hours and days on the road that I do to make sure that we can elect Democrats up and down the ballot and elect a Democrat as president. Or I could not be chair and go work for the candidate of my choice. I`m choosing to remain as chair so that I can fight like hell to make sure that the jokers on the other side of the aisle aren`t able to get hold of the White House.
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Same if you had a bad show, it just rolls off you more easily.
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I am an avid reader! As for writing, I might - someday. But we'll have to wait and see.
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If there is one thing BP's 'watery improv act' made clear, it is that, as a culture, we have become far too willing to gamble with things that are precious and irreplaceable, and to do so without a back-up plan, without an exit strategy.
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As a planetary scientist, I don't know what else to call Pluto: It's big and round and thousands of miles wide.
