Seth Shostak Quotes

Mountains aren't eternal: even the most imposing massifs are smoothed away by weathering in a few hundred million years or less. Plate tectonics makes new ones, and without it, our future would be flat.

Seth Shostak

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FutureMountainsNewYearsWithout

It's almost like a genre rule: Don't Open The Box.

Joel Coen

BoxOpenRuleAlmostLikeGenre

People get up and say, 'I didn't prepare a speech because I didn't think I would win.' Well, that's dumb.

Megan Mullally

PeopleWinThinkSpeechDumbSay

But that private world, once it's dramatised, doesn't live again until it finds a reader.

John McGahern

LiveWorldAgainOncePrivateUntil

I like to pretend that my art has nothing to do with me.

Roy Lichtenstein

ArtMeNothingPretendLike

As actors, we are accustomed to moving around, and it's always great to live and work in a city - you feel like you are truly living a life there.

Miranda Otto

LifeWorkLiveGreatCityMoving

I used to think that deadlines should be ignored until the product was ready: that they were a nuisance, a hurdle in front of quality, a forced measure to get something out the door for the good of the schedule, not the customer.

Jason Fried

GoodQualityDoorThinkCustomer

Economic resources are not all that matter in people's lives.

Jose Angel Gurria

PeopleMatterResourcesEconomic

I've grown up around cinema. Michael Kamen was a very, very close friend of mine, sort of my godfather. So I know how much work goes into it. You have to know what you're doing.

Dhani Harrison

WorkFriendDoingYouCinemaKnow

When you sign players who are young and hungry, that's good for the side.

David Silva

GoodYouYoungHungrySideSign

I think that, with anything creative, you should have the freedom to experiment, and that experimentation means not feeling totally responsible for how other people perceive it.

Conor Oberst

FreedomCreativePeopleThinkYou

I pay lots of homages. I wanted to pay tribute to a leading Iranian writer, Gholam - Hossein Sa'edi, who is buried in Paris - he is an Iranian Arthur Miller. He is of a similar stature, and his work is similar to that of Arthur Miller.

Asghar Farhadi

WorkParisPayWhoTributeWriter

Whether it's being a leading man, making TV shows, being with my family, I've learned a lot.

Ashton Kutcher

FamilyManBeingLeadingMakingTV

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