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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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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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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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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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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Jobs has within him sort of this conflict, but he doesn't quite see it as a conflict between being hippie-ish and anti-materialistic but wanting to sell things like Wozniak's board. Wanting to create a business.
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The men and women who occupied the east coast of North America between 1607 and 1800 have been more closely scrutinized than any other collection of people in American history.
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I prefer to underplay scenes rather than, you know, be big and drive them. And sometimes you have to do that, but I like the more natural styles.
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We're dumber and less cognitively nimble if we're not around other people - and, now, other machines.
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Those who have had anything useful to say have said it far too often, and those who have had nothing to say have been no more reticent.
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A woman has to be twice as good as a man to go half as far.
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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.
