Seth Shostak Quotes

When it comes to brains, size matters. It's not all that matters, of course. Whales and dolphins have brains that are larger than humans', but few of the flippered and fluked set win tenure at Stanford. Our brains are the largest in proportion to body size, and they're also highly sophisticated.

Seth Shostak

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I think that you can't make a movie without a script. But you also can't make movies without actors. You also can't make movies without technicians. And there has to be just one person in charge of everybody, and to me that one person is the director.

John Frankenheimer

MeThinkYouPersonMoviesDirector

I think with social media and Instagram, people are able to see what's over the fence of everyone else, and it all seems within reach.

Max Joseph

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Rather than subsidize 'American' exporters, it makes more sense to subsidize any global company - to the extent it's adding to its exports from the United States.

Robert Reich

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I'm one of those people who always wanted to be a writer, so I have a fair amount of juvenilia, though fortunately, I was too old for my juvenilia to be on the Internet.

Ann Leckie

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We always thought it strange that nobody was up on that stage playing soul stuff. Maybe people were playing it in their garages, like us, but they always reverted to pure rock when they got on stage.

Michael Hutchence

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I never thought much about success early on. I only thought about being a comedian - or just being in show business, is really more accurate.

Steve Martin

SuccessBusinessThoughtEarlyNever

Sometimes what's right isn't as important as what's profitable.

Trey Parker

ImportantSometimesRightProfitable

Making 'Pacific Rim' was a lot like what you imagined making movies would be like when you were 12.

Travis Beacham

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I had reached the point when I could not see anything clearly ahead, I needed help, and I got it.

Ross MacDonald

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Luke Cage isn't going to throw a pity party for himself. He literally says to himself, 'This is the world I'm in. These are the circumstances I have.' He's a self-made man. He's trying to continuously build, and that's what's interesting about him. He's a work in progress.

Mike Colter

WorkProgressManWorldInteresting

When business executives are making the artistic decisions and don't understand animation, things can go awry.

Don Bluth

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Most of the women in Greek tragedies have their fates predetermined. The gods dictate that such and such will happen to them, and everything they predict comes true. Not Medea.

Diana Rigg

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