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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It's great to have a great past and history. But it's even greater to have a good future. So the most important history is the history we make today.
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The trade union movement represents the organized economic power of the workers... It is in reality the most potent and the most direct social insurance the workers can establish.
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I didn't go into politics because I wanted to win a popularity contest.
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I had not even thought of running for president until one day in 1991, at a small fund-raiser, completely unanticipated, someone stood up and said, 'Hey, Mario, in all the years we've supported you, we've never heard you talk about the presidency, and we want to know why not.'
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I would not send a poor girl into the world, ignorant of the snares that beset her path; nor would I watch and guard her, till, deprived of self-respect and self-reliance, she lost the power or the will to watch and guard herself.
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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.'
