Bill Nye Quotes
I worked at comedy clubs - if I can use the term 'work' - for several years. I middled at one point. I never made it; I was never a headliner. I never made enough time to write enough good material, in my opinion.
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There is nothing people can throw at me to say: 'Do this, do that.'
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My daughter is my passion and my life.
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I try and take lots of vitamins and I don't drink. I do smoke, though, I'd be insufferable if I didn't smoke, you'd have to push me off a balcony I'd be so boring.
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I am big believer that increase the size of the cake is as at least as important as distribution of the cake. To increase the size of the cake, you need to focus on progress.
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I originally envisioned myself doing something with the suffix 'ology' at the end of it, like marine biology or entomology. But after I started to do some acting gigs, I thought it wasn't a bad thing... I said to myself, 'I might as well keep riding this bus until the wheels fall off.'
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Tone is somewhat totalising in that, once I locate it, it tells me what kind of syntax to use, what word choices to make, how much white space to leave on the page, what sentence length, what the rhythmic patterning will be. If I can't find the tone, I sometimes try narrating through the point of view of someone else.
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They that are intoxicated by self-conceit have interposed themselves between it and the Divine and infallible Physician. Witness how they have entangled all men, themselves included, in the mesh of their devices. They can neither discover the cause of the disease, nor have they any knowledge of the remedy.
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I need a little bass and I don't even need that crazy bass to break your face. I just want it to sound good when I have my favorite song.
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Futurists wanted to suggest movement by means of a dynamic painting; Duchamp applies the notion of delay - or, rather, or analysis - to movement.
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We have to think about the future and what it is we want to accomplish from this party.
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Dave thought he was bigger than Van Halen the band. So there was this catfight going on for 10 years.
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I don't like it when a woman looks like a fashion victim.
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God takes care of imbeciles, little children and artists.
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Never trust the artist. Trust the tale. The proper function of the critic is to save the tale from the artist who created it.
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He who waits to do a great deal of good at once will never do anything.
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At various times during the last four thousand years God has asserted his rights and endeavoured to establish his own authority, his own laws, and his own government among the children of men.
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Do not be bullied out of your common sense by the specialist; two to one, he is a pedant.
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We do not need to proselytise either by our speech or by our writing. We can only do so really with our lives. Let our lives be open books for all to study.
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I'm a weird dichotomy of nerd, sports fan, and musical theater, so I'd love to do a superhero musical on Broadway. But all the good superheroes are claimed.
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My parents have a strong work ethic, but their attitude to life, their philosophy, is: 'whatever makes you happy.'
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Diversity isn't just a hallmark of big cities anymore.
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Originality usually amounts only to plagiarizing something unfamiliar.
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Love is within us. It cannot be destroyed, but can only be hidden.
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I worked at comedy clubs - if I can use the term 'work' - for several years. I middled at one point. I never made it; I was never a headliner. I never made enough time to write enough good material, in my opinion.
