Seth Shostak Quotes

Note to academics: Aristarchus' track record of astronomical research would probably have guaranteed him tenure somewhere, if tenure had been invented. His stack of reprints included measuring the distances of the Moon and Sun.

Seth Shostak

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SunMoonResearchHimAcademics

I take my religion seriously.

Jim Inhofe

ReligionSeriouslyTake

I've been fascinated with severe weather since I was four, when I saw a tornado at night in my mom and grandmother's southeast Minnesota hometown while everyone else was asleep - an experience I encoded in 'The Stormchasers.'

Jenna Blum

ExperienceMomWeatherNightTornado

I am not sure gender ever won't be an issue in comedy, because I think that women do have different priorities in some respects.

Jenny Eclair

WomenI AmThinkPrioritiesComedy

A true intellectual is a man who, after reading a book and being convinced by its arguments, will shoot someone or, more likely, order someone shot.

John McCarthy

ManBookReadingSomeoneTrueWill

When you're growing up, it's very easy to feel lonely and insecure.

John Tiffany

Growing UpLonelyFeelEasyYouUp

The Lord only knows how many times I let my children go hungry rather than take secretly the bread I liked not to ask for.

Sojourner Truth

ChildrenGoBreadAskHungryTake

I worked with such concentration and focus and I had hundreds of obscure engineering or programming things in my head. I was just real exceptional in that way.

Steve Wozniak

FocusEngineeringWayProgramming

Live by publicity, you'll probably die by publicity.

Russell Baker

LiveDieYouPublicity

I was all-state in four sports in New Jersey, but sometimes I couldn't get served at a restaurant two blocks from my high school. There were no job opportunities then... the only thing a black youth could aspire to be was a bellboy or a pullman or an elevator operator, or, maybe, a teacher. There was a time when all we had was black baseball.

Monte Irvin

SportsTeacherTimeJobSchool

Look at Gretchen Wilson. If she came out in the '70s she'd be the queen of Southern rock.

Johnny Van Zant

QueenLookRockSheOutSouthern

I'm doing a couple books at Dynamite. I'm writing Doc Savage over there.

Chris Roberson

WritingDoingOverSavageBooks

First of all, ladies and gentlemen, you must forget that you are singers.

Claude Debussy

YouForgetFirstMustSingers

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