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  • I went to Sirius Satellite Radio and did my show, Rapping With Rip. -- Rip Taylor
  • Satellite broadcasting makes it possible for information-hungry residents of many closed societies to bypass state-controlled television channels. -- Rupert Murdoch
  • Satellite archaeology' refers to the use of NASA and commercial high resolution satellite datasets to map and discover past structures, cities, and geological features. -- Sarah Parcak
  • Satellite images suggest North Korea is building a light-water reactor and working on uranium enrichment. This is troubling. -- Yukiya Amano
  • I have a radio show for the Sirius Satellite Radio Network. It's an interview show. It's called The Spectrum. -- Edwin McCain
  • The late 20th century sea level rise rate lacks any sign of acceleration. Satellite altimetry indicates virtually no changes in the last decade. -- Nils-Axel Morner
  • Satellite in my eyes Like a diamond in the sky How I wonder Satellite strung from the moon And the world your balloon Peeping Tom for the mother station -- Dave Matthews
  • The Satellite Home Viewer Improvement Act expires at the end of this year. Thus, we must act quickly to ensure our constituents continue to receive the services they enjoy. -- Eliot Engel
  • Satellite images, maps and blueprints of the whole world, of every city. We could look it up and know what's there in someone else's words. Or we could get wicked drunk and just go. -- Joey Comeau
  • I started with commercials - for shampoo, pancakes, insurance, Volvo. I did a Lux soap commercial with Sarah Jessica Parker. And I got a role in an indie film called Satellite that did well in festivals. -- Stephanie Szostak
  • I started with commercials - for shampoo, pancakes, insurance, Volvo. I did a Lux soap commercial with Sarah Jessica Parker. And I got a role in an indie film called 'Satellite' that did well in festivals. -- Stephanie Szostak
  • When a wall is slowly covered over by earth, the materials it's made from decay and become part of the soils around and above it, sometimes causing vegetation above and next to the wall to grow faster or slower. Satellite imagery helps archaeologists to pick up these subtle changes. -- Sarah Parcak
  • A satellite has no conscience. -- Edward R. Murrow
  • Digital television, satellite radio, videogames, iPods - so much media. Do books even matter anymore? -- Mo Rocca
  • And the first flight of the tether satellite happened in '92, and I was the backup on that flight. -- Umberto Guidoni
  • The Planck satellite may detect the imprint of the gravitational waves predicted by inflation. This would be quantum gravity written across the sky. -- Stephen Hawking
  • When I was fighting communism, there was rapid development of satellite television and cell phones, and communism, to survive, would have to block all these information devices. -- Lech Walesa
  • The space industry is developing and delivering benefits that tie into our immediate needs and priorities here on Earth-for example, medical and materials research, and satellite communications. -- Marc Garneau
  • I can remember in early elementary school when the Russians launched the first satellite. There was still so much unknown about space. People thought Mars was probably populated. -- Christa McAuliffe
  • Exponential growth in access to the Internet, satellite television and radio, cell phones, and P.D.A.'s means that breaking news now reaches virtually every corner of the globe. -- Dee Dee Myers
  • Obviously with the onset of cable and satellite, there are more opportunities for programming and original programming, so it creates more opportunities for actors and producers and directors and everything. -- Anthony Michael Hall
  • I have a satellite radio show called 'The Legends of Reggae.' It's a cool way to branch out and do other things. I'm paying respect to the legends of reggae. -- Ziggy Marley
  • Canada's a huge country, so to be able to unite the country through communication satellite technology or to be able to observe it through remote sensing technology from space is a natural fit for a country like Canada. -- Marc Garneau
  • With regard to North Korea, between myself and President Obama earlier, with regard to the so-called launch of satellite, the missile launch, we shared the view that it undermines the efforts of the various countries concerned to achieve the resolution through dialogue. -- Yoshihiko Noda
  • The hardest thing about my job isn't the snake bites or the crocodiles, it's being away from my children. I have a really religious satellite phone call every day back to the boys, wherever we are, whatever time zone, to say goodnight. -- Bear Grylls
  • You don't have to spend much time in Shanghai before you start to get all existential about the meaning of authenticity. Did you know that Shanghai is building nine satellite towns, each designed to mimic the architecture and culture of a different country? -- Patricia Marx
  • I sold Blockbuster because I saw what was coming: the satellite dish, technology that would make the business obsolete in a few years. Why would people go to a store for a video and then have to return it when they had a dish? -- Wayne Huizenga
  • Most of the planet's terrestrial surfaces are visually accessible through video cameras and satellite imagery, if not physically within reach. Even the approaches to Mount Everest are now littered with human debris. One can drive to Timbuktu, which for centuries was synonymous with inaccessibility. -- Alan Huffman
  • Once Iraq became a hot bed for kidnapping, reporters had to use every kind of trick they could manage to avoid it. This included chase cars, security men for more prosperous agencies and networks, and GPS signals on satellite phones that could pinpoint the journalist's locations. -- Janine di Giovanni
  • The only technology that can 'see' beneath the ground is radar imagery. But satellite imagery also allows scientists to map short- and long-term changes to the Earth's surface. Buried archaeological remains affect the overlying vegetation, soils and even water in different ways, depending on the landscapes you're examining. -- Sarah Parcak
  • On the 11th anniversary of 9/11, it is some consolation that the man most responsible for that terrible morning will not be smiling smugly to himself as satellite TV brings to the leafy boulevards of Abbottabad the somber images of New Yorkers commemorating those who perished in the Twin Towers. -- Bobby Ghosh
  • The Moon is a ball of left-over debris from a cosmic collision that took place more than four billion years ago. A Mars-sized asteroid - one of the countless planetesimals that were frantically churning our solar system into existence - hit the infant Earth, bequeathing it a very large natural satellite. -- Seth Shostak
  • The bottom line is that finding orphan planets - small, faint, and located who-knows-where - is not for the faint of heart. The task is comparable to observing a match flame at the distance of Pluto. The WISE satellite, a hi-tech, space-based infrared telescope especially suited for such work, has found only a few. -- Seth Shostak
  • I made a lot of money. I earned a lot of money with CNN and satellite and cable television. And you can't really spend large sums of money, intelligently, on buying things. So I thought the best thing I could do was put some of that money back to work - making an investment in the future of humanity. -- Ted Turner
  • In a world of cell phones and satellite feeds - a world in which the president can sit in the White House situation room and watch a military action unfold on the other side of the world - it is not realistic to expect TV news to be anything but what it has become: a ceaseless flow of words and images that may or may not be accurate. -- David Horsey
  • Vickie is so fat that her baby pictures were taken via satellite. -- John Cena
  • In a moment, we hope to see the pole vault over the satellite. -- David Coleman
  • Everybody remembers Robbie Williams said I had a face like a satellite dish. -- Sophie Ellis Bextor
  • Dear Iranian nation, your children have placed the first indigenous satellite into orbit. -- Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
  • I'm a believer that satellite radio, whether I'm on it or not, will take off. -- Howard Stern
  • The satellite revolt was not sparked from the West. It was sparked by Communism itself. -- Whittaker Chambers
  • Like a satellite in orbit, Apple is perpetually falling. It just happens to miss Earth every time. -- Horace Dediu
  • We should develop anti-satellite weapons because we could not have prevailed without them in 'Red Storm Rising'. -- Dan Quayle
  • And then my chance really happened in 1996 when we added the second flight of the tether satellite. -- Umberto Guidoni
  • How can it be a spy satellite if they announce on television that it's a spy satellite? -- George Carlin
  • You might be a redneck if your satellite dish payment delays buying school clothes for the kids. -- Jeff Foxworthy
  • Let's get my incantation right: "I wish I may, I wish I might" Give earth another satellite. -- Robert Frost
  • Last night I fell asleep in a satellite dish. My dreams were broadcast all over the world. -- Steven Wright
  • Then during the mission itself, I used the space shuttle's robot arm to release a satellite into orbit. -- Sally Ride
  • Let us build a SAARC satellite which we can dedicate to our neighbourhood, as a gift from India. -- Narendra Modi
  • What is sure is that the satellite view of our world and its evolution is now a common reality. -- Olivier Theyskens
  • Who would have thought, when they came to the fight, that they'd witness a launchin' of a black satellite -- Muhammad Ali
  • It doesn't matter whether it comes in by cable, telephone lines, computor, or satellite. Everyone's going to have to deal with Disney. -- Michael Eisner
  • The satellite business is a very successful business, very profitable business, and serves the broadcast market in addition to the telecoms market. -- Chua Sock Koong
  • I think the relationship between cable and satellite and telco pay TV service providers and the content industry is a very, very solid one. -- Jason Kilar
  • Because of the internet, satellite TV, and the digital world, you can stay in touch, you can learn about other people from a young age. -- Viggo Mortensen
  • You know about Star Trek?" came out of Stark's mouth before his brain could stop it. Again, the warrior shrugged. "We do have the satellite. -- P. C. Cast
  • George W. said he doesn't watch television. And, of course, well - the reason for that is the Clintons stole the White House satellite system. -- David Letterman
  • What a perversion of the normal order of things! ... to make power the primary and central object of the social system, and Liberty but its satellite. -- James Madison
  • Public radio is the last oasis of free and independent music. For satellite radio channels, you have to subscribe; commercial stations are as corporate as basic cable. -- Nellie McKay
  • I've been trying to write really simple songs to make them sound like they're coming out of a satellite that's crashing into a gas giant or something. -- Mark Linkous
  • I have a car in Nebraska. When I bought it, they gave me a satellite radio, and there's an 'indie-rock' station. It's just nothing I'm interested in. -- Conor Oberst
  • My bucket list is pretty much checked off. But oh, we should play in space! Let's do that. We'll play in space, up on a satellite somewhere. -- Patrick Stump
  • Preparation is the be-all of good trial work. Everything else - felicity of expression, improvisational brilliance - is a satellite around the sun. Thorough preparation is that sun. -- Louis Nizer
  • The brain and its satellite glands have now been probed to the point where no particular site remains that can reasonably be supposed to harbor a nonphysical mind. -- E. O. Wilson
  • Being at NASA and having the access to both computing capability and satellite observation capability is kind of the ideal research situation to try to understand global climate change. -- James Hansen
  • Too many radio stations, all they do is syndicated programming, it's just piped in from some satellite someplace, and they don't have much of a connection to the community. -- David Shuster
  • It's easy to become a satellite today without even being aware of it. This country can seduce God. Yes, it has that seductive power; the power of the dollar. -- Malcolm X
  • Leave it to me as I find a way to be Consider me a satellite, forever orbiting I knew all the rules, but the rules did not know me Guaranteed -- Eddie Vedder
  • I'd sooner exchange ideas with the birds on earth than learn to carry on intergalactic communications with some obscure race of humanoids on a satellite planet from the world of Betelgeuse. -- Edward Abbey
  • Archaeologists have used aerial photographs to map archaeological sites since the 1920s, while the use of infrared photography started in the 1960s, and satellite imagery was first used in the 1970s. -- Sarah Parcak
  • When we did the pilot, I sort of pictured this guy pirating a signal and then this story unfolding of him building this satellite and these robots and watching these bad movies. -- Joel Hodgson
  • All I see is my father's tax money being wasted on shooting satellite pictures of South America like you guys work for the Travel Channel.-- Todd Dooley (BLACK MARIAH - A Calling) -- Richard Finney
  • The point of that is, if you look at Walgreen's history, they've always been pioneers in the application of technology. They're the only drugstore chain that I know to have their own satellite. -- James Collins
  • It is not too farfetched that soon it will be possible for a physician to send the electrocardiogram and the heart sound via communication satellite to a distant heart specialist for diagnosis and consultation. -- Hubertus Strughold
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  • And many of the alarmists on global warming, they've got a problem cause the science doesn't back them up. And in particular, satellite data demonstrate for the last 17 years, there's been zero warming. None whatsoever. -- Ted Cruz
  • Scientists use satellites to track weather, map ice sheet melting, detect diseases, show ecosystem change... the list goes on and on. I think nearly every scientific field benefits or could benefit from satellite imagery analysis. -- Sarah Parcak
  • Our legislation addresses broadcasts over the public airwaves, but I hope the cable and satellite industries see the importance of this issue and voluntarily create a family tier of programming and offer culturally responsible products. -- Charles W. Pickering
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