Ann Druyan Quotes
Science has the cold facts, but lacks religion's social organization and ability to inspire that moves people to act.
Ann Druyan
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You can never guess or assume what anyone is going to think.
J. J. Abrams
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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.
Questlove
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I grew up in a village of 12 houses. We had a well and a cow.
Olesya Rulin
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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.
Viggo Mortensen
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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.
Yolandi Visser
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My choosing Islam was not a political statement; it was a spiritual statement.
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
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The poet speaks to all men of that other life of theirs that they have smothered and forgotten.
Edith Sitwell
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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.
Gary Ackerman
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Remember, either you control your money or it will control you.
T. Harv Eker
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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.
P. J. O'Rourke
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Men go abroad to wonder at the heights of mountains, at the huge waves of the sea, at the long courses of the rivers, at the vast compass of the ocean, at the circular motions of the stars, and they pass by themselves without wondering.
Saint Augustine
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Even before I went to the UN, I often would want to say something in a meeting - only woman at the table - and I'd think, 'OK well, I don't think I'll say that. It may sound stupid.' And then some man says it, and everybody thinks it's completely brilliant, and you are so mad at yourself for not saying something.
Madeleine Albright
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When I was born in 1942, World War II was still going. And I began to realize when I became a young adult that if we don't teach our kids a better way of relating to their fellow human beings, the very future of humanity on the planet is in jeopardy.
Graham Nash
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There will always be a place for us somewhere, somehow, as long as we see to it that working people fight for everything they have, everything they hope to get, for dignity, equality, democracy, to oppose war and to bring to the world a better life.
Harry Bridges
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This perception that we can be stars without any work and just appear is rubbish.
Darcey Bussell
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Science has the cold facts, but lacks religion's social organization and ability to inspire that moves people to act.
Ann Druyan
