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🇺🇸Carl Sagan

Science

1934–1996

"For a long time the human instinct to understand was thwarted by facile religious explanations."

"I think if you put a smile on people's faces, they give that back to you."

"A friend of mine suffered from COPD. That's why I wanted to let you know about Inogen, a new way to have oxygen anytime, anywhere. Look into the difference Inogen can make for you."

"You have to love a town where you can both smoke and gamble in a pharmacy."

"I used to refer to myself as Typhoid Mary. It wasn't that I was jinxed, I just seemed to bring ill fortune to anybody I was close to."

"Rose: But the world is full of Martha wannabes."

"I got to know Asia Argento ten months ago. Our commonality is the shared pain of being assaulted by Harvey Weinstein."

"Christians... get Christmas under control. Seriously. It won't stop! It doesn't stop, does it? It's always Christmas now! Make it the whole year! It's the only time you pricks are happy!"

"I could list some Japanese films illustrating this, but the last thing the audience for Memoirs of a Geisha wants to see is a more truthful film with less gorgeous women and shabbier production values."

"Bubba: How many pieces of Nicorette has he had today?"

"Let's build us a happy, little cloud that floats around the sky."

"Free Press is a Marxist organization, and it— the FCC is now riddled with Free Press people. The White House, riddled with people that are taking phone calls from Free Press."

"MGM never really gave me a break. They loaned me out for leading roles, but cast me in programme pictures."

"There is more treasure in books than in all the pirates' loot on Treasure Island and at the bottom of the Spanish Main... and best of all, you can enjoy these riches every day of your life."

"The actual quote attributed to Russell is, "Everything is vague to a degree you do not realise till you have tried to make it precise."

"If everyone understood evolution, then the tyranny of religious memes would be weakened, and we little humans might find a better way to live in this pointless universe."

"Why not just live in the moment, especially if it has a good beat?"

"I’ve never done anybody any harm in my entire life. No need to chase girls, I’ve thousands of them on Top of the Pops, thousands on Radio One."

"The future states that there is no time other than the collapsation of that sensation of the mirror of the memories in which we are living. Common knowledge, but important nonetheless."

"The connections we make in the course of a life--maybe that's what heaven is."

"You can be a hero, or you can be a zero. And the choice is yours. But we are all watching. The whole world is watching, folks. Choose wisely."

"I can remember being young enough, long ago, to believe that in Tennessee Williams the giant themes of Greek tragedy had returned, all hung about with Magnolias. Ignorance of Greek tragedy helped in this view."

"There is a certain advantage to the British accent. I do notice that Americans love it; they think that we Brits are smarter than perhaps we are."

"The good thing is that I have always had wonderful people around me. It's dangerous when you start earning a lot of money and you become famous when you are too young."

"When I've gotten criticism, it's that it's too long, too soft, didn't hit the government hard enough. Then when I do hit the government, they go, "What's he doing hitting the government?"

"I OWE Christianity a debt, and so, I believe, does the world we have lived in for the last 2000 years."

"to love means to realize there is a time to let the beloved one go"

"We are the cosmos made conscious and life is the means by which the universe understands itself."

"Mark Miller is my brother and I love him dearly."

"I was given so much advice. About how my hair should be, what I should wear, which competitions I should enter, what stuff I should play. None of that was relevant for me. I just had a kind of instinct."

"My main job as a curator is to try to get people interested in history, to visit our palaces, to enjoy themselves, and to learn something, too. I try to do the same with my books, to entertain as well as to inform."

"LIVE FROM NEW YORK, IT'S SATURDAY NIGHT!"

"Strictly has just given me a real zest for life. Life is so short. We should all grasp it."

"It's flattering being compared to Will Smith because he's successful and brilliant at what he does and he's a nice and funny guy. But at the end of the day, I want to be known as Richard Blackwood."