Ann Druyan Quotes
I've been thinking about the distorted view of science that prevails in our culture. I've been wondering about this, because our civilization is completely dependent on science and high technology, yet most of us are alienated from science.
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President Reagan stood for conservative principles in a way that brought people together.
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I never even held a guitar until I was 23 and living in California, but then loved it. I'm really not an accomplished instrumentalist. Maybe that has something to do with why I write and sing.
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I'd work with soccer coordinators at Game Changing Films and have one or two combat training sessions with my stunt double, who's a wushu master.
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I think artists are really the root of a tree. They can search for truth or reality in their own way, and the gallery can support them - the outside part of the tree, where it is more about reaching the outside world, connecting with the outside world. That is the role of the gallery, no? Why does the artist have to do that?
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Nashville is one of the greatest places for the best songwriters in the world. It's been fantastic to live there and to raise our family there. It's a great town.
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I've been in more laps than a napkin.
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I got a telegraph from my mother who said that my step-father had had a heart attack, come home and earn a living. So I went back to England and the only thing I knew to earn any cash was through hairdressing.
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Once every five hundred years or so, a summary statement about poetry comes along that we can't imagine ourselves living without.
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Acting is my first love, and that's my main career, it really is.
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I am like a man so busy in letting rooms in one end of his house, that he can't stop to put out the fire that is burning the other.
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Too often, we think that, when we have a problem with our lives or our country, that the way to fix it is to take an eye for an eye. That doesn't help anything or anyone.
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We who came here saw what was happening. This was far more than a war in a faraway place. This was a moral imperative, a terrible vision of the future.
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I love wearing men's clothing and underwear.
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To be honest with you, a lot of directors can be very lazy.
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No person is just one particular emotion.
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Mumbai may not be my city. But it is my kind of city.
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Truth is not a matter of personal viewpoint.
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Do I pray? Yes. Prayer is very important to me.
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Jeff is a good leader, very competitive and focused. His spirit of innovation is a vital part of the present and the future of NBC Universal.
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We will fight against good teams.
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Many people think they could do much better if they only had the opportunity that they don’t realize they already have.
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We're a planet of nearly six billion ninnies living in a civilization that was designed by a few thousand amazingly smart deviants.
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While we look to the dramatist to give romance to realism, we ask of the actor to give realism to romance.
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I've been thinking about the distorted view of science that prevails in our culture. I've been wondering about this, because our civilization is completely dependent on science and high technology, yet most of us are alienated from science.
