Ann Druyan Quotes
My knowledge of science came from being with Carl, not from formal academic training. Carl gave me a thrilling tutorial in science and math that lasted the 20 years we were together.
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We must continue building in all corners of the Land of Israel, with determination and without being confused.
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I don't keep people around me that aren't family. You don't get to stay. Unless you're eating at the table with us, you're not part. We eat together, we cry together, we live together, we die together. Everything that we do is for each other, and we care for another.
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It's time for some common sense from federal agencies.
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Grades were important in our house. I was reading by two. My mom would sit there and read with me, read with me, read with me. It was wonderful.
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You don't go into politics unless you want to win.
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Shakespeare's villains are fabulous because none of them know that they are villains. Well, sometimes they do.
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Excellence is not a skill, it's an attitude.
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I love speaking at schools. That's always my favorite because I wish I'd had someone who was like me come speak at my school.
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I don't like to talk about girlfriend stuff. It's not necessary. I try to keep my relationships separate from everything else.
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If I can just be thought of as Omari Hardwick who had a really, really solid career, and whose work is appreciated in its own right, I think that would be a great legacy to leave behind.
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I think it just came to a point where I made a decision to do better with my life and health. And that is only by God's grace because there are no guarantees.
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The truth is, I don't sketch much at all. I have a very visual/spatial brain that retains a lot of information about maps, directions, positioning, and details, so I usually prefer working out those issues on the page itself.
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I had an ethnic preference, if you will, for the warm weather, coming from Chennai. So I finally said, 'Look, can I move to California?' because every time I come here, it would be in the 70s or 80s, and there would be beautiful blue sky and warm.
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Everyone should learn to tango in Argentina before they die.
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For me, one of the privileges of being a writer is to poke your nose around and learn about worlds you don't know.
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I was cast in 'Thor' and I'm cast as a Nordic god. If you know anything about the Nords, they don't look like me but there you go. I think that's a sign of the times for the future. I think we will see multi-level casting. I think we will see that, and I think that's good.
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I went to my boss, and I said, 'Look, I'd like to design these ties because I think they could be new.' He said, 'The world isn't ready for Ralph Lauren.' I never forgot that because... I thought that was a compliment.
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I originally got into this because of a five-year-old's begrudgery of his teacher. Mrs. Lawlor cast me as a tree, and I was disgusted. I was sure I had more to offer than that. It was like, 'OK, if you want me to be set dressing, fine, I'll take it on the chin but I'll show you - I'm going to be a big actor some day.'
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That which is easy is bad for your inner life.
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Knowledge being to be had only of visible and certain truth, error is not a fault of our knowledge, but a mistake of our judgment, giving assent to that which is not true.
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Golf is social. It brings a lot of people together.
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One of the great upsides to a national book tour is the chance to break out of television's cocoon and interact directly with the American people.
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The idea of the extreme makeover is disturbing.
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My knowledge of science came from being with Carl, not from formal academic training. Carl gave me a thrilling tutorial in science and math that lasted the 20 years we were together.
