Bill Nye Quotes
I'm an educator. You do what you have to do to get what you are saying across, and if that means being funny, that's what I do.
Quotes to Explore
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I got lucky. I won the San Francisco Stand-Up Comedy Competition in 1977 while I was still at San Francisco State.
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The first movie I really clicked with was 'Die Hard' when I was 6 years old, which is crazy that I was watching it that young. That was the one that made me want to become an actor.
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I don't think anyone feels older. You have this infinity inside you that feels like it could go on forever.
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My interests span biology, though sometimes I feel like an anachronism, somebody from the Victorian era when there weren't so many boundaries dividing the sciences.
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I never try to follow a trend or fashion.
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My opinion, my conviction, gains immensely in strength and sureness the minute a second mind as adopted it.
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When I first got Yves Saint Laurent Couture, I didn't know how to take off a cape. I would ask Katoucha and Dalma - the real divas of the runway - 'Can you show me?' I've never been afraid to ask for help.
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Personally, of course it's exasperating when people think you're just swanning around in Europe, going to the occasional fashion show and then being glamorous at a party.
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Auditions make me nervous; any time I have to perform, I get stage fright.
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I don't think young men or women should feel pressured into marriage. You shouldn't marry anyone, in my opinion, who you have to try hard for.
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If you're powerful, you are much more likely to be blind and deaf to signals from outside.
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Normally I don't watch myself, because I'm not very objective.
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In most cases, my favorite Jethro Tull songs will be determined by how I feel about them as live performance songs, not by the recorded identity.
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Whether it's threats to Medicare, cuts in education spending, or Internet privacy, the ramifications got young people out to vote and should be enough to keep them involved in our political system.
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I'm not an overnight sensation. I'm a Texan. And I'm a Texas success story. I am the epitome of hard work and optimism.
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Frances Conroy - brilliant, brilliant actress.
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A bicycle has transformed my experience of London.
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I always have to be writing.
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The atomic bomb made the prospect of future war unendurable. It has led us up those last few steps to the mountain pass; and beyond there is a different country.
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I think we were colonized by aliens 250,000 years ago, and they genetically altered our DNA to be primates into homo erectus and humans. I'm very interested in how we evolved so suddenly, which obviously ties in with the alien thing.
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Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely.
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Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought.
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I've got a condo in Miami, but I don't live in it.
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I'm an educator. You do what you have to do to get what you are saying across, and if that means being funny, that's what I do.
