"Does it make you feel big to make a little boy cry?"
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"Ever since there have been people, there have been explorers, looking in places where other hadn't been before. Not everyone does it, but we are part of a species where some members of the species do, to the benefit of us all."
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"Unlike what you may be told in other sectors of life, when observing the universe, size does matter, which often leads to polite ‘telescope envy’ at gatherings of amateur astronomers."
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"'Boldly going where hundreds have gone before' does not make headlines."
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"My popularity does not derive from me pandering to people. People came to me. I don't tell anyone to follow me on Twitter. I don't tell people to like my Facebook page. I don't tell people to fill the venue. I'm offered to people, and then people come."
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"Also, where does your identity come from? Your memory, of course."
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"So this show [Cosmos] does not only operate on you intellectually, because telling you stories of how science works and why it works and what was discovered and why it matters, but combines that with stunning visualizations of the cosmos. This has the chance of affecting you intellectually and emotionally, and as well as even spiritually, because the wonder and awe of the universe are especially potent when presented in this way.""
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"I like seeing how people have succeeded when others would have presumed they would have failed, and others just go along with whatever everyone else does."
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"Any astrophysicist does not feel small looking up at the universe; we feel large."
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"I think I love my dreaming process because one of the things that my dreaming process does is sort out stories for me."
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"Everything is minimal, and if it's over, it's over. We're abrupt with things: in and out. Especially if it's an overdub - it's gone. It does something that's not real."
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"The heart does not lie."
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"There is no idea that does not carry in itself a possible refutation, no word that does not imply its opposite."
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"We may, indeed, say that the hour of death is uncertain, but when we say this we think of that hour as situated in a vague and remote expanse of time; it does not occur to us that it can have any connexion with the day that has already dawned and can mean that death -- or its first assault and partial possession of us, after which it will never leave hold of us again -- may occur this very afternoon, so far from uncertain, this afternoon whose time-table, hour by hour, has been settled in advance."
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"The thing I don't like on television is when somebody does something that makes absolutely no sense just for the shock of it."
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"That's what time does: We stand stubbornly like rocks while it flows all around us, believing that we are immutable - and all the time we're being carved, and shaped, and whittled away."
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"I know some of you are Thinking maybe I deserved it. But before you start pointing Fringers, let me ask you Is what I did really so bad? So bad I deserved to die? So bad I deserved to die like that? Is what I did really much worse Then what anybody else does? Is it really so much worse Than what you do?"
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"But it does not tell you this: that love will turn the whole world into something greater than itself."
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"The shakes stop if you drink enough, but then so does everything else."
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"An icon means nothing to me. I don't understand what it means to anybody actually. It seems like a word of convenience. It seems to attend to the huge success of certain kinds of movies that I did, but there's no personal utility in being an icon. I don't know what an icon does, except stand in a corner quietly accepting everyone's attention. I like to work, so there's no utility in being an icon."
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