Seth Shostak Quotes

It's the default premise in science: If you observe something in nature only once, you assume that what you've seen is typical. That's because 'typical' is just another way of saying 'most probable.'

Seth Shostak

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Unfortunately, the people I end up seeing the least are my girlfriends.

Jennifer Grey

PeopleEndSeeingUpGirlfriends

I don't know, I love it when I see movies with people who are not super familiar to me or people who I've seen in smaller parts who are suddenly getting a chance to do something bigger. For me that's very exciting.

Melanie Lynskey

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The inspiration of the Bible depends upon the ignorance of the gentleman who reads it.

Robert Green Ingersoll

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PlayStation 3 is another form of meditation. Come on, when you're on set, all day? That's what I do in my trailer, I just play PlayStation 3.

Steve Zahn

DayYouMeditationPlayPlaystation

I could never have ridden 4,000 winners without loving my job, and If I ever get to the point where I'm not loving it, I'll stop.

Tony McCoy

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Our Founders always wondered about how long it would last. The price of liberty is everlasting vigilance. You've got to be on your guard every minute or you will lose it.

Michael Novak

LongYouLosePriceLibertyWill

It is one thing to have quality and another to be a great player.

Julen Lopetegui

GreatQualityOne ThingPlayerThing

I always tell young filmmakers, don't go make a feature. Make a short. When you're ready to make a feature, people will tell you. Your friends will tell you. Your fans will tell you. Festivals will tell you. Listen to your audience.

Jay Duplass

PeopleShortFriendsFestivalsYou

I've taken advantage of a few breaks that came along and moved along with them.

Clint Eastwood

AlongAdvantageBreaksTakenMoved

There's a relationship in the reality with how theater is presented - you can't experience that anywhere else. When you mess up, you mess up obviously, when you sweat, you sweat obviously, when you cry, you cry obviously. There's no hiding in theater.

Allison Mack

RelationshipExperienceRealityYou

The folly of mistaking a paradox for a discovery, a metaphor for a proof, a torrent of verbiage for a spring of capital truths, and oneself for an oracle, is inborn in us.

Paul Valery

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Interestingly enough, there is a really different dynamic when you're directing something that somebody else has written compared to when you're directing something that you've written. And there's a good and a bad side to it. I think the bad side is that you never feel the same level of connection to the material - you just don't.

Scott Derrickson

GoodThinkFeelEnoughYouBad

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