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 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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By the age of nine or ten, I knew that I loved history and writing. It got hold of me and never turned loose.
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I always say you just need 20 minutes a day. That is it: 20 minutes to do really fast circuits, and you can bring some weights with you to work.
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ESPN takes itself very seriously, but for some reason, I'm allowed to be the court jester.
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Day one through three of the radio tour, I actually went by Camaron Ochs. I went to my first set of radio remotes, and everybody was just like 'What's your last name?' It's not easy to pronounce. The first two minutes I got with people, that's what they wanted to talk about, and sometimes those two minutes is all you get.
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I feel so much more comfortable when I'm working on material which makes other people scratch their heads and ask, 'You're going to make a musical out of that?'
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I mean, roots musicians - we can get old, you know? We can get up there and wear overalls and deliver the songs, we don't have to look any certain way.
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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.
