Ann Druyan Quotes
Science has the cold facts, but lacks religion's social organization and ability to inspire that moves people to act.
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It is exciting to write about the present once one gets beyond the trivia of the moment. As a time to live in, as a time to think about, the present is intriguing.
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By the end of high school, I would do shows at the theater at night and then take the train home and go to school the next morning.
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Films are meant solely to provide entertainment. There are no lessons to be learnt and and inferences to be drawn. Has anyone become dutiful and law abiding after seeing a film that espouses these very virtues? Films can do no more than influence fashion, decor, and hairstyle trends.
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I even have a Harmony Rocket and a Stratocaster with a scalloped neck back in Florida.
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Public life is regarded as the crown of a career, and to young men it is the worthiest ambition. Politics is still the greatest and the most honorable adventure.
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Ten men waiting for me at the door? Send one of them home, I'm tired.
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A teacher should have a creative mind.
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You can never guess or assume what anyone is going to think.
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Hip-hop is an instant gratification, winners and losers circle, and often those who are losing give up after three or four, five years.
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I grew up in a village of 12 houses. We had a well and a cow.
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Yes, I would agree that America, just like Spain was in the 17th Century, is the main empire of the world and they are the ones who, on the surface, are the most pushy: pushing their language, pushing their culture - or what there is of it - pushing by force their system on others.
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Hollywood's all about, 'Let's make this easy: This is what you do, so you go over here in this group, and we're not gonna call you.'
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It's weird how people were always asking us, 'Are you real? Are you joking?' That seems like something Americans care about a lot. You can't answer the question 'Are you real?' If we're anything, we're documentary fiction.
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My choosing Islam was not a political statement; it was a spiritual statement.
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The poet speaks to all men of that other life of theirs that they have smothered and forgotten.
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Politics was my third act. But I could have a fourth. I don't know what that will be yet, but there will be one.
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Remember, either you control your money or it will control you.
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If you spend 72 hours in a place you've never been, talking to people whose language you don't speak about social, political, and economic complexities you don't understand, and you come back as the world's biggest know-it-all, you're a reporter. Either that or you're President Obama.
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When I was young, my dad always let me listen to comedy albums.
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I think good art happens on that edge between comfortable and in a lot of pain, you know what I mean?
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Everything Tolstoy wrote is precious, but I found this final statement of the truth about life as he had come to understand it particularly beautiful and moving. 'That is what I have wanted to say to you, my brothers. Before I died.' So he concludes, giving one a vivid sense of the old man, pen in hand and bent over the paper, his forehead wrinkled into a look of puzzlement very characteristic of him, as though he were perpetually wondering how others could fail to see what was to him so clear - that the law of love explained all mysteries and invalidated all other laws.
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'Yes yes yes, later. For now I would ask you to proclaim next Friday from the mimbar in the masjid that the French are protectors of the faith and friends of the Prophet.'
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The stone often recoils on the head of the thrower.
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Science has the cold facts, but lacks religion's social organization and ability to inspire that moves people to act.
