Our television signals leave this planet and go out into space..the signals spread out from the earth in spherical waves, a little like ripples in a pond. They travel at the speed of light, 186, 000 miles a second, and essentially go on forever. The better some other civilizations receivers are, the farther away they could be and still pick up our tv signals. Even we could detect a strong tv transmission from a planet going around the nearest star.' President: 'You mean everything? You mean to say all that crap on television - the car crashes, wrestling, the porno channels, the evening news?. Carl Sagan
We have to create culture, don't watch TV, don't read magazines, don't even listen to NPR. Create your own roadshow. The nexus of space and time where you are now is the most immediate sector of your universe, and if you're worrying about Michael Jackson...
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Terence McKenna
Maybe I should, I don't know leave? Because this is starting to sound like one of those reality shows I don't want to be in. Maybe you guys want to take turns in the confessional booth.
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Rachel Caine
Some soap opera, you know, real people pretending to be fake people with made-up problems being watched by real people to forget their real problems.
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Chuck Palahniuk
FRUITS AND NUTSKeep jumping around them like monkeys. The clones, Commercialized zombies, And the TV junkies. Keep throwing berries, Twigs, And nuts at them. Until they wake up To see what's up And figure out why We're laughing at 'em.
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Suzy Kassem
You can never talk religion on network TV. It makes too many people angry. You can talk about sex.
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Craig Ferguson
More Quotes By Carl Sagan
Every one of us is, in the cosmic perspective, precious. If a human disagrees with you, let him live. In a hundred billion galaxies, you will not find another.
The cosmos is within us. We are made of star-stuff. We are a way for the universe to know itself.
The Cosmos is all that is or was or ever will be. Our feeblest contemplations of the Cosmos stir us -- there is a tingling in the spine, a catch in the voice, a faint sensation, as if a distant memory, of falling from a...
A celibate clergy is an especially good idea, because it tends to suppress any hereditary propensity toward fanaticism.
