Bill Nye Quotes
Television isn't inherently good or bad. You go to a bookstore, there are how many thousands of books, but how many of those do you want? Five? Television's the same way. If you're going to show people stuff, television is the way to go. Words and pictures show things.
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I don't even own a television. I don't watch network television.
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Touring, and being in a band, it's almost like the other stuff, the other parts of life, get put on hold.
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How much do you engage yourself in what's truly real and important in life? That's the individual question.
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If you want to cultivate a habit, do it without any reservation, till it is firmly established. Until it is so confirmed, until it becomes a part of your character, let there be no exception, no relaxation of effort.
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I didn't make any friends in New York by insisting on moving the league headquarters to Cincinnati. The fact was that my son Bill was in school. His mother had passed away, and I didn't want to take the boy away from his school and to a strange city.
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It's tough to be 68 and dating. I've given it up now.
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Medicine, anything academic, is a very Persian Iranian route to take in life, in one's career.
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I started riding the whole 'fluffy' train, and it's a cute word and socially a lot more acceptable than someone saying is fat or obese. If you call a girl 'fat,' yo, she'll raise hell, but if you say, 'Aw girl, look at you, you're fluffy,' there's almost a sexy appeal to it.
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A creator needs only one enthusiast to justify him.
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Men honor what lies within the sphere of their knowledge, but do not realize how dependent they are on what lies beyond it.
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You should always leave the party 10 minutes before you actually do.
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Part of the reason for moving to New York was the sense that it just didn't matter how much work I did in England, I continued to be seen simply as a Redgrave. I did feel I could be who I am in New York and we all like to feel appreciated.
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Television has shied away from being too dark, because so much has happened to us recently here in the West, and people are sort of wanting to see more uplifting sorts of things.
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I never got good at predicting what millions of people will suddenly decide is rational.
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The surface is all you get of me.
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I love physical kinds of comedy and getting down and dirty and doing stunts. When I was growing up, I was always getting into fights with guys and usually punching out boys my age because I was a lot bigger and tougher. So I'm naturally accustomed to putting myself into the headspace of a girl who can take care of herself.
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I think that all stereotypes sort of begin with truth. I think that the only problem is if that's the only place that you go.
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It's always good to be known. You want to build your brand up, want to build your name.
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Stage is the ultimate test; I like watching established screen actors on stage to see if they can really do it. But it's great to have a healthy mixture of the two. Film is so technical: there's something very particular about the relationship between you and the camera. It took a long time for me to get good on film.
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I think it's always wonderful to dress people in the public eye. It's the icing on the cake and such an endorsement of what we do.
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The Russian people chose democracy at the beginning of the 1990s and this was their final choice.
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We deliberately used elements from Brazilian music and from African and Asian music. Now people can hear that but then it sounded so abstract, they couldn't hear it.
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We could talk, act, and dress funny. We were excused for socially inappropriate behavior: 'Oh, he's a programmer'. It was all because we knew this technology stuff that other people found completely mystifying.
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Television isn't inherently good or bad. You go to a bookstore, there are how many thousands of books, but how many of those do you want? Five? Television's the same way. If you're going to show people stuff, television is the way to go. Words and pictures show things.
