Stars Quotes - Page 28

• With equal passion I have sought knowledge. I have wished to understand the hearts of men. I have wished to know why the stars shine. And I have tried to apprehend the Pythagorean power by which number holds sway about the flux. A little of this, but not much, I have achieved.

  Bertrand Russell

  Passion, Heart, Knowledge

  Bertrand Russell (1993). “The Quotable Bertrand Russell”

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• In Hollywood, story content of movies follows a hierarchy of power, not the relative quality of various ideas. Hollywood does not lack for quality writing. It's just that quality writing commonly has to be sacrificed in order to propel a film into production. A studio needs a star and a director to make a film, so those are the folk who'll define the content. If they don't have the same creative sensibilities, then the content will change.

  Terry Rossio

  Writing, Order, Ideas

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• Bach is like an astronomer who, with the help of ciphers, finds the most wonderful stars . . . Beethoven embraced the universe with the power of his spirit . . . I do not climb so high. A long time ago I decided that my universe will be the soul and heart of man.

  Frederic Chopin

  Heart, Men, Long

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• The agriculture we seek will act like an ecosystem, feature material recycling and run on the contemporary sunlight of our star.

  Wes Jackson

  Running, Ecosystems, Agriculture

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• I only want to work with actors that really get it and make it work. I didn't want it to be a star-driven thing anymore.

  Darren Aronofsky

  Actors, Want, Driven

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• It's really a pity that there are observers who view political events like comic strips. There has to be a Zorro, there has to be a star. No, the problem of Upper Volta is more serious than that. It was a grave mistake to have looked for a man, a star, at all costs, to the point of creating one, that is, to the point of attributing the ownership of the event to captain Sankara, who must have been the brains, etc.

  Thomas Sankara

  Mistake, Men, Views

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• The whole of existence is dancing, except man. The whole of existence is in a very relaxed movement; movement there is, certainly, but it is utterly relaxed. Trees are growing and birds are chirping and rivers are flowing, stars are moving: everything is going in a very relaxed way. No hurry, no haste, no worry, and no waste. Except man. Man has fallen a victim of his mind.

  Rajneesh

  Moving, Men, Rivers

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• I've built a solid career there, but America's ten times the size. Now that we're onto the third record, I feel like the stars have aligned and American audiences are embracing my music even more.

  Chantal Kreviazuk

  Careers, America, Records

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• I did grow up next door to Steve McQueen, who was a very famous movie star at the time, but as a kid it didn't impress me. We always had great fun with him. He would take us out on Sundays on his motorcycles, riding around in the desert; he was like a second father.

  Herb Ritts

  Growing Up, Fun, Father

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• The stars are always up in the sky...then when it is perfectly black, they feel less vulnerable and out they come.

  Heather O'Neill

  Sky, Black, Vulnerable

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• Nooo! Leave that to George Lucas, he' s really mastered the CGI acting. That scares me! I hate it! Everybody is so pleased and excited by it. Animation is animation. Animation is great. But it's when you're now taking what should be films full of people, living thinking, breathing, flawed creatures and you're controlling every moment of that, it's just death to me. It's death to cinema, I can't watch those Star Wars films, they're dead things.

  Terry Gilliam

  Hate, War, Thinking

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• The disparity between being a 10-year-old boy playing air guitar, wishing I was a rock star, and the reality of the whole thing is insane.  A girl will throw her bra onstage, and I say to myself, if I was the guy that pumped your gas today, would you throw your bra at me?

  John Rzeznik

  Girl, Boys, Reality

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• Star Trek, I thought, was a very inconsistent show, which at times sparkled with true ingenuity and pure science fiction approaches, and other times was more carnival-like, and very much more the creature of television than the creature of a legitimate literary form.

  Rod Serling

  Fiction, Television, Form

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• Rock stars against drugs--that's what we want, isn't it? Government-approved rock-n-roll? Woo! We're partying now!

  Bill Hicks

  Party, Rocks, Government

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• Rock stars hawking Diet Cokes--are demons set loose on the Earth to lower the standards for the perfect & holy children of God!

  Bill Hicks

  Children, Rocks, Perfect

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• I can't sing a lick but that's nobody's business. God listens when I sing to Him and He thinks I am an opera star.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Thinking, Opera, I Can

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• Looking at a cat, like looking at clouds or stars or the ocean, makes it difficult to believe there is nothing miraculous in this world.

  Leonard Michaels

  Believe, Ocean, Cat

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• I have always read that the world, both land and water, was spherical, as the authority and researches of Ptolemy and all the others who have written on this subject demonstrate and prove, as do the eclipses of the moon and other experiments that are made from east to west, and the elevation of the North Star from north to south.

  Christopher Columbus

  Moon, Land, Water

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• Everywhere I go, there are all these Big Star freaks, and they’re nice little guys who are usually in college, and they’re kind of lonely and misunderstood, learning to play guitar.

  Alex Chilton

  Lonely, Nice, College

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• If there is no point in the universe that we discover by the methods of science, there is a point that we can give the universe by the way we live, by loving each other, by discovering things about nature, by creating works of art. And that — in a way, although we are not the stars in a cosmic drama, if the only drama we're starring in is one that we are making up as we go along, it is not entirely ignoble that faced with this unloving, impersonal universe we make a little island of warmth and love and science and art for ourselves. That's not an entirely despicable role for us to play.

  Steven Weinberg

  Art, Drama, Play

  "The Faith of Scientists: In Their Own Words". Book edited by Nancy K. Frankenberry, 2008.

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• Like every other destruction of optimism, whether in a whole civilisation or in a single individual, these must have been unspeakable catastrophes for those who had dared to expect progress. But we should feel more than sympathy for those people. We should take it personally. For if any of those earlier experiments in optimism had succeeded, our species would be exploring the stars by now, and you and I would be immortal.

  David Deutsch

  Optimism, People, Progress

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• The Irish people will only be free, when they own everything from the plough to the stars

  James Connolly

  People, Republican

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• To think of these stars that you see overhead at night, these vast worlds which we can never reach. I would annex the planets if I could; I often think of that. It makes me sad to see them so clear and yet so far.

  Cecil Rhodes

  Night, Thinking, World

  Cecil Rhodes (1902). “The last will and testament of Cecil John Rhodes: with elucidatory notes to which are added some chapters describing the political and religious ideas of the testator”

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• Stars have a life cycle much like animals. They get born, they grow, they go through a definite internal development, and finally they die, to give back the material of which they are made so that new stars may live

  Hans Bethe

  Animal, Giving, Development

  Hans Albrecht Bethe (1968). “Energy production in stars: Nobel lecture”

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• I think that there will always be artists out there who think they need to sign a major label deal in order to be successful. And that machine is what is going to work for them - there's tons of examples of pop stars who need that machine.

  Macklemore

  Successful, Thinking, Artist

  "ESQ&A: Macklemore on Music, Style, and More". Interview with Jeremy Unger, www.esquire.com. December 21, 2012.

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