Seth Shostak Quotes

In the 19th century, if you had a basement lab, you could make major scientific discoveries in your own home. Right? Because there was all this science just lying around waiting for somebody to pick it up.

Seth Shostak

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HomeScienceWaitingYouLyingOwn

If the audience sees and feels things are real, then they buy it.

Joel Silver

RealAudienceBuyThingsThenFeels

I get one hour, really 25 minutes in a sermon on a weekend, to combat all the hours of the week that people are told you are what you have through billboards, commercials, and sitcoms, and so forth.

Max Lucado

PeopleWeekendWeekYouThroughGet

We were marching since we were babies and all we did was make Jane Fonda famous.

Robert Patrick

FamousMakeMarchingBabiesDid

Real people are complex, contradictory, and have their own motivations - they can't just be mouthpieces for the writers' point of view.

Robert J. Sawyer

PeopleViewPoint Of ViewRealOwn

The long program sets the men apart from the boys.

Max Aaron

MenLongApartProgramSets

I remember Detroit feeling really unsafe, feeling scared a lot. Our house was broken into, our car was stolen, we had to get a watchdog, we would get beat up in the street, I had my bike stolen. There was just a lot of real anarchy on the streets and sidewalks.

Sufjan Stevens

CarBikeBrokenRememberHouseReal

One of the nice things about the world of filmmaking is that you make friends in the business. Sometimes directors feel a script needs something, but they're not sure what it is, so they show it to a friend; if the friend is a writer, he ends up kicking around with that script for a while.

Tom Stoppard

FriendBusinessWorldFriendsYou

The idea that America, whose oil production has been declining for the past 40 years, is now on track to become the world's biggest producer by 2015 is still hard to grasp.

Roger Altman

PastWorldAmericaNowBecomeOil

I'm not a Saban guy, because I don't like liars, and I think he lied. I think he lied to the Miami Dolphins and to the fans of Miami, and he left. And it's pretty simple: I think integrity is very important; if you don't have integrity, I don't know how you can be successful.

Ron Jaworski

IntegritySimpleThinkMiamiYou

The media are always on the lookout for possible sightings of D.B. Cooper, the man who parachuted from a plane with $200,000 in ransom money in November 1971. But the truth is, the mystery man wearing dark sunglasses almost certainly died during the jump, according to the FBI agents on the case at the time.

Ronald Kessler

TruthTimeMoneyManSunglasses

By and large, the Mexican food in Paris is horrible.

Rosecrans Baldwin

FoodParisMexicanHorribleLarge

'Star Wars' is very black and white, and honestly, I like it that way. But fantastical settings like that work best when the characters within them feel real. Real people have conflicts and make mistakes and get it wrong sometimes.

Claudia Gray

WorkBlack And WhiteBestMistakes

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