Ann Druyan Quotes
As a species, we tend to lie quite a bit - to ourselves and to each other. It's a primate thing. So, a reason to go into a career in science and technology, or to learn more about these subjects, is to become a more powerful person.
Quotes to Explore
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The readers are the ones who let us live our dreams. I try to write books which are really compelling - that you'd take on vacation and rather than going out, you'd read in your hotel room because you had to find out what happened. Hopefully that's what readers are responding to.
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I came from the theater playing leading roles, and when I started doing film and television, I felt as if I had to start from the bottom.
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Virtually every major technology has an initial spike of interest, then a dip, and then a long-term rise to success. The dot-com bubble is the canonical example, but there are many more.
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Basquiat will continue to show us new things about who we are and why he was so important.
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Why did I elope with my husband after knowing him for only four months? I wish I could show people the picture of the two of us that night and have them feel what I felt. But it's just a picture. It can only capture how things looked, not how they felt.
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Religious ideas about good and evil tend to focus on how to achieve well-being in the next life, and this makes them terrible guides to securing it in this one. Of course, there are a few gems to be found in every religious tradition, but insofar as these precepts are wise and useful they are not, in principle, religious.
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If you keep on saying things are going to be bad, you have a good chance of being a prophet.
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Cable has come along; many all-news 24 hour cable outlets in the United States. They have cut deeply into the traditional networks' viewing audience.
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Temper never mellows with age, and a sharp tongue is the only edged tool that grows keener with constant use.
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I don't need drugs to make my life tragic.
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This is the heart of my argument: We can put more pressure on the antagonist for whom we show human concern.
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I believe in reincarnation of the soul.
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Babies are smart. They can tell the difference between a responsive face and a blank face, wiped clean of emotion.
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If we hold the poverty thought, the penury thought, the thought of lack, we cannot demonstrate abundance. We must hold the plenty thought if we would reach plenty.
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It would not be better if things happened to men just as they wish.
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My favorite toy as a kid was Legos. I loved building things, and that's what we're doing with SumZero.
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I personally don't even try to compare New York and L.A. To me, they are just way too different.
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Where the stakes are the highest, in the war on terror, we cannot possibly succeed without extraordinary international cooperation. Effective international police actions require the highest degree of intelligence sharing, planning and collaborative enforcement.
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We don't want Arizona to be dependent on the whims of Barack Obama and the federal government.
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To have that opportunity to direct under my belt was fantastic, so I'm glad I did it.
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One of the lessons I have learned in the different stages of my career is that science is not done alone. It is through talking with others and sharing that progress is made.
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I'd always loved technology. It's something I always messed around with in computer labs at school. So I glommed onto it very early as way to differentiate myself in business.
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As a species, we tend to lie quite a bit - to ourselves and to each other. It's a primate thing. So, a reason to go into a career in science and technology, or to learn more about these subjects, is to become a more powerful person.
