Bill Nye Quotes
When people, some of them very intellectual, claim that evolution is not true, I get a little nervous.
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It's for scientists to lay out the data and lay out what they think, and then it's for the public to make up its own mind. We don't live in a priesthood where some small group imposes its views on other people - that's not the way that science works, and it's not the way a democratic society should work.
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I think people come and go, 'I'm going to find the real Gary. What is it... the real Gary? I've got to find it.' But the thing is, it's pretty much what you see is what you get. I'm just like this. There's no hidden viciousness.
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People know things and have a remarkable capacity to act in their individual immediate interests all the time.
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I'm a four-down guy. I can rush the passer and stop the run. I know I can be a difference-maker.
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The kind of classic pose of a female model is to look kind of sexy and a bit annoyed.
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Revenge doesn't stop.
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From my years of teaching creative writing, I know that new writers take the setting for granted, as simply a place to set the action, but setting is a vital element in fiction writing and deserves serious treatment.
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If writers, like comedians or singers, could only hear themselves bombing as they worked, it's likely that certain books would be cut short after the first few leaden sentences.
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As more ad spending shifts online, the ability to have expertise and to innovate quickly will become critical.
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Whilst we deliberate how to begin a thing, it grows too late to begin it.
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I'm more comfortable writing traditional protagonists. But 'Steve Jobs' and 'The Social Network' have antiheroes. I like to write antiheroes as if they're making their case to God about why they should be allowed into heaven. I have to find something in that character that is like me and write to that.
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I love books.
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I get most of my inspiration from older records. Most of the records that I listen to were probably made before I was born, and I was born in the mid-'70s. I don't know why, exactly, I'm drawn to those sounds.
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I don't know what 'famous' is, really.
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Paradoxically, since gay men rarely have gay parents, cultural transmission must come from friends or strangers (a problem since the generations so seldom mix in gay life).
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The Army confronted racial integration when it was still unpopular in society. It has been struggling to more fully integrate women. Its troops, after all, reflect society.
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I sang in a reggae band. And then there was a soul band where I sang back-up vocals and some lead. And I was also in a women's a capella group. And I was in the gospel choir at school. Actually, I've always been in choirs. Or some kind of group. Just because I love singing so much. But I truthfully never thought of it as a career.
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Today, as we look back on the history of our nation and take note of how far we have come as a people, we are reminded that we owe a great debt to those who fought valiantly for the freedoms that we easily take for granted.
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Ants have the most complicated social organization on earth next to humans.
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There are no military solutions - dialogue and diplomacy are the only guarantee of lasting peace.
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Understanding, above all, is a gift we should never offer uninvited.
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Nowadays young people have great choice of occupations, hobbies, etc, so chess is experiencing difficulties because of the high competition. Now it's hard to make living in chess, so our profession does attract young people.
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I may say a lot of strange and incomprehensible things as far as other people are concerned, but that is the way of all brilliance.
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When people, some of them very intellectual, claim that evolution is not true, I get a little nervous.
