"Science is based on experiment, on a willingness to challenge old dogma, on an openness to see the universe as it really is. Accordingly, science sometimes requires courage - at the very least the courage to question the conventional wisdom."

-- Carl Sagan

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“I'd have a sex scene with Whoopi Goldberg or Star Jones.”
“The biggest sin against the poor and the hungry is perhaps indifference, making believe we do not see, passing by on the other side of the street.”
“Illusions as bad as mine make people aware of the fallacies of visual information and the pleasure to be derived from such fallacies.”

Source : Vik Muniz, Charles Stainback, Mark Alice Durant (1998). “Vik Muniz: seeing is believing”
“Sacrificing one's life on the altar of literature is in some ways like sacrificing a goat to some malicious spirit. It's not always a humane or necessary decision.”
“If we become conceited through great success, some day the trout will take us down a peg.”

Source : Theodore Gordon (1947). “The Complete Fly Fisherman”
“Ridicule can do much, for instance embitter the existence of young talents.”
“Love's an excuse to get hurt.”

Source : "Song: Lover I Don't Have to Love ("Lifted or The Story is in the Soil, Keep Your Ear to the Ground")". 2002.
“If I wanted to do TV full-time, 'Breaking Bad' is definitely the type of project I would want to do. But TV is not my favorite thing in the world. I definitely want to focus on film. It's what I grew up loving. It's always been about movies, movies, movies, movies, movies. I really want to make great films.”

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