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Carl Sagan Quotes

Our species needs, and deserves, a citizenry with minds wide awake and a basic understanding of how the world works.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: scientist
Nationality: american
Birth: November 9, 1934 - December 20, 1996

Topics

World Understanding Minds Awake Our

I haven't written a score that's going to change the Western world or the musical as we presently know it.

Andrew Lloyd Webber

Change World Know Score Going

One of the nice things about a second book is that your readers already have so much of the introductions on board, they don't have to put all their attention into figuring out the world and can more easily let that play out as a background to the other things you want to do.

World Book Attention You Play Nice

I draw the line at letting people into my songwriting cave. To me, that's where the alchemy happens and where the mystery is.

People Me Mystery Cave Songwriting

I've been drawing authors and politicians for newspapers for many years. I try to read up on the person; in the case of authors, read one of their books. I watch interviews via YouTube and collect pictures via the Internet.

Siegfried Woldhek

Internet Drawing Pictures Person Try

You have to think an awful lot about your motivations or people's behavioral intentions or what their body language can indicate or what's really going on or what makes people sometimes do, sometimes, the irrational things they do.

People Think Language You Body

I see lines of space. I break things down into lines and space, and I balance.

Michael Moschen

Balance Space Down See I See Break

Why do I not seek some real good; one which I could feel, not one which I could display?

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Good Feel Why Real Seek Some

To a man of pleasure every moment appears to be lost, which partakes not of the vivacity of amusement.

Moment Man Lost Pleasure Amusement

Figure skating is theatrical, and a part of it is wearing costumes. My costumes were very over-the-top and outrageous for figure skating. But for me, it's all beautiful. Even when nobody else believed they were beautiful, I felt beautiful in them.

Beautiful Me Nobody Skating Even

Novelists in particular love to rhapsodize about the glory of the solitary mind; this is natural, because their job requires them to sit in a room by themselves for years on end. But for most of the rest of us, we think and remember socially.

Love Job Mind Rest Think End

I think I'm just really in love with women, and I love to see them looking incredibly, truly beautiful. I think every time a woman wears one of my dresses, you know, in a matter of speaking, I'm having a little love affair with her!

Love Women Beautiful Time Woman You

I guess I strongly feel that we cannot pretend that the Third World is not part of our world. We cannot say 'OK, there's that problem over there, let's just close our eyes' - we cannot do that.

Eyes World Feel Problem Say Over

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