Alan Stern Quotes
I can't imagine how many kids around the world will look at pictures of Pluto and think, 'I want to grow up to be a scientist.'
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What is more important? What the members of a politicised tribunal say, or what the citizens vote for? For me, it is clear.
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God gets you to the plate, but once your there your on your own.
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If your work requires you to travel, you will understand that there's no vacation destination like home.
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I was very good in all the maths and sciences.
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At no point am I ever threatened by people who question who I am, or why I like the things I do, or my legitimacy. Because I know who I am very strongly, and I think that's what geek culture can reinforce.
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I make a lot of money and I'm worth every cent.
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Getting into Sundance is such a big platform for a director.
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Experimenting with different sounds is great, but when it comes down to it, you're still playing a guitar.
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I used to wear miniskirts with my GB top, and sparkly sandals, and the boys would be like: 'Oh my gosh, this girl cannot be serious.'
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Winning, you can overlook so many things.
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What is history? An echo of the past in the future; a reflex from the future on the past.
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I don't want to collect Indian art, though pots and beadwork and blankets made by Indians remain the most beautiful art objects in the American West, in my opinion.
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I decide my future. I decide what I want to do. Nobody else. If I decide this will be my last year, maybe it is. If I decide it will be my last contract, I decide that. Nobody else. So I will decide when the moment is there.
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The most important thing as a leader is your relationship with God.
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Being made in the image of God, man was the crown of creation.
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My room is like an antique shop, full of junk, and weird stuff. There's a big sword in there. And a taxidermy bird, and a couple of birdcages. And a lot of newspaper cuttings. I used to have a weird thing about cutting out morbid headlines from newspapers, and collecting them. I was fascinated with drowning, which is kind of strange.
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Our culture in India is not a culture where we grudge each other.
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She discovered with great delight that one does not love one's children just because they are one's children but because of the friendship formed while raising them.
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If you can't do great things, do small things in a great way. Don't wait for great opportunities. Seize common, everyday ones and make them great.
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I finish, like, one book in a day. That's my problem. That's why Kindle is good for me, because I put, like, 15 books in it.
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But what of black women?... I most sincerely doubt if any other race of women could have brought its fineness up through so devilish a fire.
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He was a man born into a world dominated by scientific materialism. His objection to this materialism was not merely intellectual, or even egotistical (the feeling 'If the world is wholly material, then I can't be very important'). It was the feeling that man is cut off from his inner powers by this superficial attitude.
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I can't imagine how many kids around the world will look at pictures of Pluto and think, 'I want to grow up to be a scientist.'
