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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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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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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When we made 'Shaun of the Dead,' it was our first feature, and we were just lucky to make a film, full stop.
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When life gives you Monday, dip it in glitter and sparkle all day.
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I just want to continue adding walls to my craft as an artist and business man. I never want to cap off, I never want to seal it. I just want to keep adding walls and keep on going as high as it can go, but I'm never gonna be boxed in, can't. That's when you lose because when you box yourself in, you know you get comfortable, you start getting complacent. I can't be like that.
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Endings are not my thing.
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There are some words that once spoken will split the world in two. There would be the life before you breathed them and then the altered life after they'd been said. They take a long time to find, words like that. They make you hesitate. Choose with care. Hold on to them unspoken for as long as you can just so your world will stay intact.
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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.
