Seth Shostak Quotes

The Moon is a ball of left-over debris from a cosmic collision that took place more than four billion years ago. A Mars-sized asteroid - one of the countless planetesimals that were frantically churning our solar system into existence - hit the infant Earth, bequeathing it a very large natural satellite.

Seth Shostak

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MoonPlaceEarthMoreSolarSystem

Everything you touch touches you.

Jidenna

YouTouchEverything

In many cases, the Treasury will get preferred or convertible preferred stock for the money it gives to banks. These shares typically don't have voting rights, possibly to give more of a hands-off appearance to the government.

Jerry A. Webman

MoneyGovernmentVotingAppearance

It's not important to me to found a school; it's not important to me to have disciples.

John Eaton

SchoolMeImportantFoundDisciples

People aren't throwing themselves at me, but I also don't go out very much. Like, when I do go out, it's for breakfast, so it's a little hard to throw yourself at me during breakfast.

John Krasinski

YourselfPeopleBreakfastMeGoOut

It's really annoying for me. That's not what I'm playing for, to be the face of the NBA or to be this or that or to take LeBron's throne or whatever.

Stephen Curry

MeFaceWhateverThroneAnnoying

Every childhood has its talismans, the sacred objects that look innocuous enough to the outside world, but that trigger an onslaught of vivid memories when the grown child confronts them.

Steven Johnson

MemoriesChildhoodChildWorldLook

Whatever I'm doing at that moment, I try to only focus on that because I'm already ADD.

Trevor Jackson

MomentFocusDoingTryWhateverAdd

Eroticism is like a dance: one always leads the other.

Milan Kundera

DanceAlwaysLikeOtherLeads

I like to treat paint as material - to daub it, drop it, let it slide. There was Action Painting, but I also compare it to paint effects found on the streets. This approach is superimposed on a sculptural surface that is also 'painterly.'

Claes Oldenburg

PaintingActionTreatPaintStreets

I really love idiot, enlightened characters - these characters who fail to engage with the drama of their immediate circumstances; they fail to be reactive and enrolled by drama as it happens around them.

Chuck Palahniuk

LoveIdiotDramaCircumstancesFail

I think soccer is more respected now than it ever has been. You can see that in the numbers of young kids who are playing and the numbers of people who are coming to watch.

Brandi Chastain

PeopleThinkYouSoccerYoungNow

Being a princess isn't all it's cracked up to be.

Princess Diana

PrincessUpBeingCracked

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