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.

Ann Druyan

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• Night
• Die
• Single
• Planets
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• Fifth

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• Coffee and smoking are the last great addictions.

  

  Lara Flynn Boyle
  • Great
  • Coffee
  • Smoking

• Wong Kar-wai and Ang Lee are two Asian directors I'm really fond of.

  

  Bai Ling
  • Two
  • Directors
  • Asian

• Not raising the debt ceiling is not an automatic trigger for a default.

  

  Ted Yoho
  • Debt
  • Trigger
  • Ceiling

• 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.

  

  Nas
  • Game
  • Voice
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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?

  

  Nandan Nilekani
  • People
  • Work
  • Political

• I like to think of myself as classy.

  

  Ieva Laguna
  • Think
  • Myself
  • Classy

• If we focus on loving others the way God does, scripture says that we will be fulfilling His whole law.

  

  Victoria Osteen
  • God
  • Law
  • Focus

• 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.

  

  Laura Ingraham
  • People
  • Country
  • Care

• Sometimes when you're making more errors you want to pull back, but I just need to keep going forward.

  

  Venus Williams
  • Want
  • Sometimes
  • Keep Going

• 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.

  

  Karl Pilkington
  • Music
  • Nature
  • Feeling

• My biggest asset is not cash - it's a large, growing, devout fanbase.

  

  Imogen Heap
  • Growing
  • Cash
  • Asset

• 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.

  

  Felicity Jones
  • Good
  • Year
  • Opportunities

• I love making buckwheat crepes with ham, Parmesan cheese, and a fried egg on top. It's my go-to breakfast.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Love
  • Breakfast
  • Egg

• 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.

  

  Daniel Espinosa
  • Life
  • World
  • Believe

• 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.

  

  Otto Hahn
  • English
  • First
  • Poison

• You don't want to treat any one person as oracular.

  

  Nate Silver
  • Want
  • You
  • Treat

• The role of Premier is not one that should be taken lightly, nor is it a personal trophy.

  

  Lara Giddings
  • Taken
  • Personal
  • Trophy

• The whole purpose of life is to make yourself happy.

  

  Ed Victor
  • Life
  • Happy
  • Purpose

• Famously cancer fighting, laden with vitamins, minerals, soluble fiber, and phytonutrients, broccoli and its relatives are among the healthiest ingredients of the human diet.

  

  Kate Christensen
  • Fighting
  • Human
  • Cancer

• If you do television, and it's great, it's the best job there is. Every week it's another opportunity to really make that work and figure out how to make it work better. I love that it's like theater too, and the audience, and it's so short, like twenty minutes... It's like a Haiku or something.

  

  Joan Cusack
  • Work
  • Great
  • Job

• There's a difference between being posh and being rich.

  

  Kate Reardon
  • Rich
  • Difference
  • Being Rich

• I never felt poor. Our family euphemism was that we were broke, which I think psychologically gave you a different feeling. There were people far worse than we were.

  

  Joe R. Lansdale
  • People
  • Different
  • Family

• 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.

  

  Ann Druyan
  • Children
  • Night
  • Die