Bill Nye Quotes
How could there be billions of stars more distant than 6,000 years, if the world is only 6,000 years old?
Quotes to Explore
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What I know about this world is that white people will take care of themselves. And what I have learned is that if you are where they are on an equal basis, they cannot take care of themselves without taking care of you.
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It's interesting to have two totally unlikable characters as the love interests on a show.
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I love being a mum, but it's much more intensive work than being an actress - going to work feels like you've got a day off. Not that I want a day off from being a mum; it's just perhaps I had this impression before that mums don't work. But they work more than anyone.
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In tactics and training, we do more with Conte. We work a lot of tactical positions, and we know exactly what we have to do on the pitch, where I have to go, and where the defenders have to go. We know exactly what to do.
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Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet.
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For someone who comes from my business background, getting fashion people aligned around certain things can be a challenge. In a way, the industry is so forward-looking. And yet, sometimes people in fashion are not open to change.
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For every person who has ever lived there has come, at last, a spring he will never see. Glory then in the springs that are yours.
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Perhaps it would be better not to be a writer, but if you must, then write.
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I tell people marriage is a compromise, and so are renovations.
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The end of confession is to tell the truth to and for oneself.
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I had a lot of vocal problems when I was younger. I don't know if it's down to leading a healthier lifestyle or what but my range has increased.
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I have always thought that writers come with any variety of attributes. Some are capable and some aren't.
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Those who promise us paradise on earth never produced anything but a hell.
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Music was definitely a way out. Instead of playing basketball, I was going to recording studios.
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I grew up in the 1960s in Memphis, and my father was a member of the American Civil Liberties Union. I was born three years before Martin Luther King was killed, and I think that history of civil action was something that I had in my blood.
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I've always wanted to work with dogs, so in high school, I worked at the Humane Society for a little while. I honestly think, even today, that would be the other career I would go into. Somehow I would be involved with animals.
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When the kid goes to bed, you get a little bit of time for yourself and maybe your partner, so being delayed in that departure can be particularly frustrating.
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It's very selfish when I write. I'm not aware, ever, of writing for another person; I'm not even really aware of writing for myself.
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Having felt people's love and support first hand through difficult moments in my life makes me feel it's our responsibility to help one another.
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I remember being with a girlfriend who asked me to look over some chess openings with her. I instantly fell asleep. I found that I could always take a nap in any situation by just looking at some opening variation - my eyes would shut right away.
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Our outworn economic system dooms millions to frustration.
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In OK Computer, the guitar was already moving towards a tone generator as well as a riff generator.
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Helmer: "Before all else you are a wife and a mother." Nora: "That I no longer believe. I believe that before all else I am a human being."
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How could there be billions of stars more distant than 6,000 years, if the world is only 6,000 years old?
