"If Neptune were analogized with a Chevy Impala in mass, then how big is pluto compared to that? Pluto would be a matchbox car sitting on the curb."
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"For all we know, the aliens have already done this and unwittingly concluded that there was no intelligent life on Earth. They would now be looking elsewhere. A more humbling possibility would be if aliens had become aware of the technologically proficient species that now inhabits Earth, yet they had drawn the same conclusion."
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"Where there's water on Earth, you find life as we know it. So if you find water somewhere else, it becomes a remarkable draw to look closer to see if life of any kind is there, even if it's bacterial, which would be extraordinary for the field of biology."
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"The discovery of any kind of life [in Space] at all would be a tremendous watershed moment in biology, as well as all of science."
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"I would say - and paint doesn't peel unless it's acrylic paint, so maybe it is acrylic paint that they're using, not oil paint. So let me say yes, it would be acrylic house paint, which, when it dries, peels very nicely. So let's go with that."
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"If I could go back in time and see any band, It would be Link Wray and the Raymen."
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"You can't run a business based on sympathies; otherwise our business would be hampered."
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"Habit! that skillful but slow arranger, which starts out by letting our spirit suffer for weeks in a temporary state, but that thespirit is after all happy to discover, for without habit and reduced to its own resources, the spirit would be unable to make any lodgings seem habitable."
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"I didn’t know it would be like this,” he says in a whisper. And then: “I’m scared."
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"For a second I think about how easy it would be to pass back to the other side, to walk straight into the laboratories and offer myself up to the surgeons. You were right; I was wrong. Get it out."
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"I’m not the Hana everyone told me I would be after my cure."
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"I still wanted to know why. As though somebody was going to answer that for me, as though any answer would be satisfying."
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"I had the idea that the film would be much better served by a Branch Rickey lookalike than a Harrison Ford lookalike. I didn't want the audience to go into the film thinking that they knew me from some previous experience in a movie."
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"If there is a God, it is inconceivable that he would be concerned about my day to day affairs."
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"... it would be impossible for women to stand in higher estimation than they do here. The deference that is paid to them at all times and in all places has often occasioned me as much surprise as pleasure."
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"If vices were profitable, the virtuous man would be the sinner."
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"If the truth were self-evident, eloquence would be unnecessary."
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"I wanted to be a professional singer/actress, though I knew it would be hard."
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"I never give in to the temptation to be difficult just for the sake of being difficult. That would be too ridiculous."
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"I'm sure that a previous generation of Jews who published radical newspapers and journals would be critical of [David] Simon's projects. These were left wingers who suffered casualties in some of bloodiest strikes in American history."
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