Alan Stern Quotes
I'm the one who originally coined the term 'dwarf planet,' back in the nineteen-nineties.
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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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After the 9/11 incidents, Islam has become a big question mark among westerners, especially Americans. The mass media constantly raise the issue of relationship between Islam and terrorism.
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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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It's a great relationship when you can work with the person who you consider to be your soul mate.
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'She loves this newt-nuzzling blister.'
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You need people to encourage you along the way, both during your success and failures, because there will be both.
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I said to my mother, 'When you see my name in 'Vogue,' I will have arrived.'
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The characters created cannot just be a mouthpiece for the writer. When you look at a piece of writing, and it's genuine and it doesn't feel like every character is just a mouthpiece for the writer, but that they've been created in such a way that they're expressing an idea that a writer wants to get across, that's when a story succeeds.
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I'm the one who originally coined the term 'dwarf planet,' back in the nineteen-nineties.
