Ann Druyan Quotes
I guess I so desperately want to see us put this planet right. It's so horrifying to me that a fifth of us are starving every night, and that forty thousand children die every single day.
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Coffee and smoking are the last great addictions.
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Wong Kar-wai and Ang Lee are two Asian directors I'm really fond of.
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Not raising the debt ceiling is not an automatic trigger for a default.
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GaGa is one of my favourites. Her voice is incredible and she's fearless and she's ahead of the game. She's ahead of the entire game, and I admire that.
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You don't choose a party because it's the flavour of the month. I feel I will be able to work under a political system. I feel if people like me don't enter politics to bring change, who will?
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I like to think of myself as classy.
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Our country is in deep trouble. To talk and re-litigate in 1998, or even what Mitt Romney said or didn't say in 1994 or 2002, I don't think most people really care.
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Sometimes when you're making more errors you want to pull back, but I just need to keep going forward.
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I am into nature and seeing whales. I went whale-watching, and I was really looking forward to that, but when you see it on TV and you see other programs do it, you're seeing close-ups of these massive creatures, and the music that's added gives you a certain feeling.
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My biggest asset is not cash - it's a large, growing, devout fanbase.
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You just have to take these opportunities when they come along. They're not that frequent; you'll get a really good script, oh, maybe once a year if you're lucky.
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When we think back at our youth, we always remember the feeling of freedom... that you actually believe in the world. Even if it goes well for you in life, you can never attain that freedom in your imagination of what you think life could be. We are tainted.
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At first the English were very surprised by our disregarding the Hague Convention. But from 1916 onward they used at least as much poison as we did.
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You don't want to treat any one person as oracular.
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The role of Premier is not one that should be taken lightly, nor is it a personal trophy.
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The whole purpose of life is to make yourself happy.
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Famously cancer fighting, laden with vitamins, minerals, soluble fiber, and phytonutrients, broccoli and its relatives are among the healthiest ingredients of the human diet.
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The guys today are just too strong and back then they would take many hard punches to land one.
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My style hero was' Batman.' Now it's Tony Stark.
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Hip flasks are the juice machines of the alcohol world - everyone has one and it never gets used.
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Honestly, I don't think I'm doing anything any different right now. You swing, and the ball finds a hole. That's it. That's the game of baseball.
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My joke is that three black people watch 'The Daily Show' at any given time. So if I'm watching it, that counts, and there's only two left. It's a silly joke, but you know, different types of comedy reach different cultures.
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I guess I so desperately want to see us put this planet right. It's so horrifying to me that a fifth of us are starving every night, and that forty thousand children die every single day.
