Seth Shostak Quotes

Exploration is an oft-lauded human activity, and one that resonates in the same way that music and good stories do. It's hard-wired into our species (and into many others), no doubt because it has survival value. Exploration occasionally rewards those who accept its risks, usually with new resources.

Seth Shostak

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I never think that people die. They just go to department stores.

Andy Warhol

PeopleThinkDieGoNeverJust

It's fashionable to use terms like 'sales funnels' to describe the sales process for many companies, and it is true that the funnel design is very appropriate for the digital world, but despite all the prose written on sales funnels and the like, my question is still the same - when do you close your sales, and how long does that take?

Michael Gerber

WorldProcessDesignLongYouTrue

I look at directing as a sporting event. It's a race, a marathon. It's great when it clicks, which is why I push my crews so hard so we can excel.

Michael Bay

GreatPushLookWhyMarathonRace

I don't really like hedging. To me, if something needs to be hedged, you shouldn't have a position in it.

Stanley Druckenmiller

MeYouPositionSomethingLike

My father died during open-heart surgery on March 29 of my senior year in college. I was getting set to go to law school. I remember sitting in the waiting room when the doctor walked in. I said to myself, The worst possible thing just happened. What will you do?

Steve Wynn

FatherMyselfSchoolWaitingCollege

Well, it was actually - I brought the idea of doing a documentary to HBO back in 2000, when there were some press reports sort of were bandied about that there were going to TV movies based on some of the books that were out.

Monica Lewinsky

DoingBackMoviesOutGoingWell

There is a line in which populism can cross over into demagoguery. Demagoguery is the crossover where populism becomes a bad thing, and people make things up, and they assign responsibilities that aren't fair and justified, and scapegoat communities. And then it becomes a very bad thing.

Lloyd Blankfein

PeopleBadFairOverLineUp

I want to create things while I have time on Earth, and the art of costume and culture has always inspired me.

Johnny Weir

TimeArtCultureMeEarthCreate

When you win, you don't get carried away. But if you go step by step, with confidence, you can go far.

Diego Maradona

ConfidenceStepWinYouGoGet

With the situation now, people might be intrigued to see how a country coped with war all those years ago.

Dougray Scott

WarPeopleSituationCountryNow

I have my name Cory on my left arm, and I have my mom's name on my right with a cross. She passed away while I was still in high school, so I got that on my right arm.

Cory Hardrict

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I don't want to feel I'm responsible for anorexia across the country.

Courteney Cox

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