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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Youth doesn't need friends - it only needs crowds.
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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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I went to Iraq in 2004 because I believe in doing my duty, not because I agreed with the war.
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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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It frequently happens that two persons, reasoning right on a mechanical subject, think alike and invent the same thing without any communication with each other.
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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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There was a time I thought about being a professional guide. I'm a big outdoorsman, but the acting thing has always been there - always something I wanted to do.
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A woman will always sacrifice herself if you give her the opportunity. It is her favourite form of self indulgence.
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Unlike any other business in the United States, sports must preserve an illusion of perfect innocence. The mounting of this illusion defines the purpose and accounts for the immense wealth of American sports. It is the ceremony of innocence that the fans pay to see - not the game or the match or the bout, but the ritual portrayal of a world in which time stops and all hope remains plausible, in which everybody present can recover the blameless expectations of a child, where the forces of light always triumph over the powers of darkness.
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Martin Luther King, Jr. didn't carry just a piece of cloth to symbolize his belief in racial equality; he carried the American flag.
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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?
