Alan Stern Quotes
I'm the one who originally coined the term 'dwarf planet,' back in the nineteen-nineties.
Quotes to Explore
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As for my diet, I try to eat lean, clean and healthy - nothing too surprising. And I avoid too much meat or dairy because they slow you down.
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I bungee-jump, skydive, surf and snowboard.
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Endorphins are a very powerful thing.
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Ever since I was little it was programmed into me that London is where great theatre occurs and all the big shows you love start there.
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Twitter has been my life's work in many senses. It started with a fascination with cities and how they work, and what's going on in them right now.
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I think it's really important to remember that it's a long life, and it's a long career. In a perfect world, your career will be long. It does not begin and end with any one job. The point is to continue to have longevity in your career.
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We all live with blinders on. They come with having a personal vantage point.
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I have had brown hair and bangs since I was 2. One year I dyed it blonde, which felt so weird.
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The givers of most of the corruption in Africa are from outside Africa.
Olusegun Obasanjo -
Jack: What do you think of this card I wrote for Don? 'To Don from Jacky, Oh golly, oh shucks. I hope that you like it, It cost forty bucks.
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Twenty kilometers. At an average speed of 120 klicks per hour, we should cover the distance in ten minutes. Ten freezing, adrenaline-pumping, gorge-rising, terror-beating-against-the-ribs, react-in-a-microsecond-or-die seconds.
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Life was treasure. The only treasure.
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What seems fair enough against a squalid huckster of bad liquor may take on a different face, if used by a government determined to suppress political opposition under the guise of sedition.
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Imagination comes of not having things.
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A big ethical question is what happens after people stop using the device. Does it degrade the environment? Could it have been designed so it would actually be good for the environment?
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I worked at Mar-a-Lago for Trump, for some parties, and he seemed nice enough - but I don't think he's presidential. I think he's incompetent; I disagree with his policies, and I'm nervous as an American.
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What makes old age so sad is not that our joys but our hopes cease.
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I love seeing a story evolve over several books and watching characters develop.
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Quality has always been the overriding factor for us. But you also have to have happy people working for you.
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Primum non nocerum. (First do no harm)
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Most mothers want more of dad in their children’s lives, not less.
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It's one thing to read about how makeup is applied. It's another thing altogether to watch it being put on.
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Everyone today plays the same way, very dull. ... It is a pity there are no characters like John McEnroe, Jimmy Connors or, maybe, Ilie Nastase today.
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I'm the one who originally coined the term 'dwarf planet,' back in the nineteen-nineties.
