Nick Sagan
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LARRY BREWER STEVE JOBS JILL SCOTT DONNA BRAZILE It has been a terrific season, one of the best ever whilst I have been at the club. We are a club wi... LEDLEY KING Science fiction is my way of pushing the imagination onward. It's a way to understand how the wo... BERNARD WERBER IOAN GRUFFUDD I respond very well to rules. If there are certain parameters it's much easier to do something r... DENISE MINA KYLE HILL All we're doing is looking for the best for the Franconia residents. That is our number one concern,... THOMAS MURPHY Everyone is looking for the sure thing. They are looking to hedge their bet. They think the way to d... LEONARD MALTIN In the past, it was only in science fiction novels that you could read about ordinary people being a... NURSULTAN NAZARBAYEV C. JOYBELL C. GREG GRAFFIN ANNE ENRIGHT And Shanghai is amazing. I'm a fan of science fiction so when you're there in the night with... 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Dad was a difference maker. He reached out to people. He took them by the awe and wonder we feel ove... NICK SAGAN Dad was a world-famous astronomer; Mom was the artist who drew the iconic Pioneer plaque. NICK SAGAN It goes back to the starfish. That's when the light bulb really popped over my head. We'd fo... NICK SAGAN Astonishingly powerful and poignant, 'Gravity' is the rarest of rares: a space survival film... NICK SAGAN My father was not only a planetary scientist and a great popularizer of science, but he thought very... NICK SAGAN British and Canadian sci-fi strikes me as more forward-looking than its American counterpart, as evi... NICK SAGAN Human divisions would be child's play for any reasonably competent alien overlord to exploit - c... NICK SAGAN Higher levels of technology allow fewer people to do more damage. NICK SAGAN Something my father dearly loved is the scientific method, and it's founded in this element of h... NICK SAGAN Because if we were all the same, then we would all share the same weaknesses. NICK Being scared is simply fear of incompetence. NICK One, two, three, Im gon be crazy and free. NICK CARL SAGAN CARL SAGAN CARL SAGAN CARL SAGAN CARL SAGAN CARL SAGAN CARL SAGAN FRANCOISE SAGAN CARL SAGAN CARL SAGAN CARL SAGAN CARL SAGAN CARL SAGAN CARL SAGAN CARL SAGAN CARL SAGAN CARL SAGAN CARL SAGAN CARL SAGAN CARL SAGAN CARL SAGAN CARL SAGAN CARL SAGAN CARL SAGAN CARL SAGAN CARL SAGAN CARL SAGAN CARL SAGAN CARL SAGAN CARL SAGAN CARL SAGAN CARL SAGAN CARL SAGAN CARL SAGAN CARL SAGAN CARL SAGAN FRANCOISE SAGAN CARL SAGAN CARL SAGAN FRANCOISE SAGAN CARL SAGAN FRANCOISE SAGAN CARL SAGAN CARL SAGAN CARL SAGAN FRANCOISE SAGAN CARL SAGAN CARL SAGAN CARL SAGAN CARL SAGAN CARL SAGAN CARL SAGAN CARL SAGAN CARL SAGAN CARL SAGAN CARL SAGAN CARL SAGAN CARL SAGAN CARL SAGAN CARL SAGAN CARL SAGAN CARL SAGAN CARL SAGAN CARL SAGAN CARL SAGAN CARL SAGAN Art must take reality by surprise. F. SAGAN Money may not buy happiness, but I'd rather cry in a Jaguar than on a bus. FRANçOISE SAGAN CARL SAGAN CARL SAGAN CARL SAGAN CARL SAGAN CARL SAGAN CARL SAGAN CARL SAGAN CARL SAGAN CARL SAGAN CARL SAGAN CARL SAGAN CARL SAGAN CARL SAGAN CARL SAGAN FRANCOISE SAGAN CARL SAGAN CARL SAGAN CARL SAGAN CARL SAGAN CARL SAGAN CARL SAGAN CARL SAGAN CARL SAGAN CARL SAGAN CARL SAGAN CARL SAGAN CARL SAGAN CARL SAGAN CARL SAGAN CARL SAGAN CARL SAGAN CARL SAGAN CARL SAGAN CARL SAGAN CARL SAGAN CARL SAGAN CARL SAGAN CARL SAGAN CARL SAGAN CARL SAGAN CARL SAGAN CARL SAGAN CARL SAGAN CARL SAGAN CARL SAGAN CARL SAGAN CARL SAGAN CARL SAGAN CARL SAGAN CARL SAGAN FRANCOISE SAGAN CARL SAGAN CARL SAGAN CARL SAGAN CARL SAGAN CARL SAGAN CARL SAGAN CARL SAGAN CARL SAGAN CARL SAGAN Nothing brings on jealousy like laughter. FRANçOISE SAGAN CARL SAGAN CARL SAGAN CARL SAGAN CARL SAGAN We've been told that there exists no other trove of rock-and-roll history that is anywhere near the ... BILL SAGAN The quality is unbelievable. I give the BGP people a lot of credit. They kept [the tapes] cold and a... BILL SAGAN In my opinion it's worth a significant amount more. It certainly is in excess of $50 million. It's p... BILL SAGAN It's tough to do your job because it's so tempting to go down and just listen to audio or go look at... BILL SAGAN I thought there was maybe a half million to a million slides and negatives. As it turned out, there'... BILL SAGAN It was 25 feet high in height, below ground. Part of it was below ground. And there were, I thought,... BILL SAGAN In the audio and video archives, there are 7,000 taped concerts alone. I'm a rock fan who wanted to ... BILL SAGAN Bill Graham was a pack rat. I think Bill Graham just put everything down in that storage area and wa... BILL SAGAN CARL SAGAN CARL SAGAN CARL SAGAN CARL SAGAN FRANCOISE SAGAN CARL SAGAN CARL SAGAN CARL SAGAN CARL SAGAN CARL SAGAN CARL SAGAN FRANCOISE SAGAN FRANCOISE SAGAN CARL SAGAN CARL SAGAN CARL SAGAN CARL SAGAN CARL SAGAN CARL SAGAN CARL SAGAN CARL SAGAN CARL SAGAN CARL SAGAN The one thing I regret is that I will never have time to read all the books I want to read. F. SAGAN CARL SAGAN FRANCOISE SAGAN CARL SAGAN CARL SAGAN CARL SAGAN CARL SAGAN CARL SAGAN CARL SAGAN CARL SAGAN CARL SAGAN CARL SAGAN CARL SAGAN CARL SAGAN CARL SAGAN CARL SAGAN When a religious couple wrote to Sagan about fulfilled prophecies, he wrote back in May 1996 ... CARL SAGAN CARL SAGAN CARL SAGAN CARL SAGAN CARL SAGAN CARL SAGAN To jealousy, nothing is more frightful than laughter F. SAGAN CARL SAGAN
If you look at the best-seller list for American fiction, they're all sequels to detective stori... 
War has always been a part of science fiction. Even before the birth of SF as a standalone genre in ... 
I'm about making music and spending time with my family. I've been in the spotlight so long ... 
It cannot be said often enough that science fiction as a genre is incredibly educational - and I'... 
Science Fiction is not just about the future of space ships travelling to other planets, it is ficti... 
Remember, science fiction's always been the kind of first level alert to think about things to c... 
I love the science-fiction genre because there's always so many endless possibilities! It's ... 
I don't mean that literary fiction is better than genre fiction, On the contrary; novels can per... 
Butler's novel 'Kindred' may be the book most widely read by readers outside science fic... 
'Neon Future' is, in short, a positive outlook on human progress and technology, looking for... 
It's doubtful that any fiction worth reading has been produced on a computer running Windows Vis... 
I think that prog rock is the science fiction of music. Science fiction speculates on what the futur... 
'Who are we?' And to me that's the essential question that's always been in science ... 
But I think, and hope, that the novels can be understood and enjoyed as science fiction, on their ow... 
'Filk' is the folk music of the science fiction and fantasy community - you get parodies, yo... 
I think that's what distinguishes Schmidt, really. In the movies now, so much of what is appeali... 
Every kid I meet who's a reader has got something like that, their fantasy world. And science fi... 
I like science fiction. Arthur C. Clarke, Philip K. Dick and Vonnegut, and I really like Margaret At... 
There is a sort of genre of optimistic science fiction that I like, and I don't think there is e... 
Marathon running, like golf, is a game for players, not winners. That is why Callaway sells golf clu... 
You can't connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have... 
Blade Runner appears regularly, two or three times a year in various shapes and forms of science fic... 
Writers of novels and romance in general bring a double loss to their readers; robbing them of their... 
What is good for you creatively is usually bad commercially. You thrive financially by sticking to a... 
Obviously, if people love a movie, and it has the possibility of continuation, then there is going t... 
Companies get an incredible return on their investment and feel they can't stop spending the money. ... 
Marriage has no guarantees. If that's what you're looking for, go live with a car battery. 
You know, even people who talk about cutting spending and they go 'That's not the spending t... 
I've interviewed presidents and royalty, rock stars and movie stars, famous generals and captain... 
Fiction novels, that's my game. 
Science is not a thing. It's a verb. It's a way of thinking about things. It's a way of ... 
You can't connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you ... 
I am a huge Prince fan. It's a very rare thing for him to have people open for him. It's bee... 
I do not know for sure if he's looking or flirting. But, I have an opinion - Gore remains a headline... 
It's interesting - an actor's research is different to just historian's research. I'... 
The disturbing truth about science communication is that we have theories and ways of delivering mes... 
How do you know if something is real? That’s easy. Does it change you? Does it form you? Does it g... 
Most songwriters who have been lucky enough to have their song on the radio or be heard widely don&#... 
Ireland is a series of stories that have been told to us, starting with the Irish Celtic national re... 
At the core of 'Star Trek' is Gene Roddenberry's vision of the future. So much of scienc... 
I just felt that you can't have a character fall in love so madly as they did in the last movie ... 
I'm looking forward to writing more novels for young adults. 
There is a wide, yawning black infinity. In every direction, the extension is endless; the sensation... 
But the fact that some geniuses were laughed at does not imply that all who are laughed at are geniu... 
Writing is a question of finding a certain rhythm. I compare it to the rhythms of jazz. Much of the ... 
It is the tension between creativity and skepticism that has produced the stunning and unexpected fi... 
Of course the illusion of art is to make one believe that great literature is very close to life, bu... 
Marriage? It's like asparagus eaten with vinaigrette or hollandaise, a matter of taste but of no... 