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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More is required of public officials than slogans and handshakes and press releases. More is required. We must hold ourselves strictly accountable. We must provide the people with a vision of the future.
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You can follow your favorite company or organization. You can also mix that in with your family and your social network and talk about all these interests in real time. That's the value, not the brand 'Twitter.' Twitter just provides the venue for it.
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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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If my wife was to say, 'Honey, I'd like you to go to PSG', I would have to take it into account.
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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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When people get things for free, they tend to not take them as seriously.
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I don't know what 'famous' is, really.
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I am always prepared to do the right thing regardless of what other people think.
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Rates of black poverty have decreased. Black teen-pregnancy rates are at record lows - and the gap between black and white teen-pregnancy rates has shrunk significantly. But such progress rests on a shaky foundation, and fault lines are everywhere.
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We see healthcare shifting from a procedure reimbursement, where in this country doctors are reimbursed for how many procedures they conduct, to a world where people will be reimbursed for the outcomes - did the patient actually get better, and what was the total cost of the cycle of care.
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I'll publish right or wrong:Fools are my theme, let satire be my song.
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I love huge movies. Not sure I am the guy to make them, but you can rely on me being there watching them.
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When people, some of them very intellectual, claim that evolution is not true, I get a little nervous.
