Bill Nye Quotes
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To me, eyewear goes way beyond being a prescription. It's like makeup. It's the most incredible accessory. The shape of a frame or the color of lenses can change your whole appearance.
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When an opera star sings her head off, she usually improves her appearance.
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Indie movies got co-opted by the studio system. The studios insisted that only stars could make movies successful.
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I mean, when you're a pioneer and you are at the forefront of an offensive, you're going to be the most optimistic person.
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Don't let it end like this. Tell them I said something.
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Chinese people need to be controlled; otherwise, they will do whatever they want.
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I write and rewrite and rewrite and write and like to turn in what I think is finished work.
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Having two kids, I don't get out to see stand up much anymore.
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When you're young and you're in love and it doesn't work out - it hurts.
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If I were to explore music, I'd want to just focus on that and make that my priority.
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I was trained in classical piano, but it kind of dawned on me that classical pianists compete for six job openings a year, and the rest of us get to play 'Blue Moon' in a hotel lobby.
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There is an honourable tradition in British public life that those charged with authority at the top of an organisation should accept responsibility for what happens in that organisation. I am therefore writing to the prime minister today to tender my resignation as chairman of the BBC.
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I came to Congress on the promise of cutting wasteful government spending. There are plenty of examples of the government playing loose with taxpayer money, but none more so than how we spend our foreign aid dollars.
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Good boys are nice - don't go for the bad ones!
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As kids, we had no clue about the racial stuff that seemed to preoccupy adults. We just enjoyed our life as kids.
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America's vulnerability comes precisely from its strength, its wealth, its power and its modernity. It's the usual story of the dog chasing its own tail.
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Tired minds don't plan well. Sleep first, plan later.
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The few emerging economies that have avoided booms and busts have done so by adhering to sound policy frameworks.
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I got into writing in college... well, in elementary school. But in college, I started writing seriously and had a professor who read my writing and gave me permission to pursue that as a real effort and time-consuming effort.
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There's a lot of speculation on what the zombie apocalypse thing means. I have a feeling that it's kind of an expression of our subconscious fears. I think we know that something big and impossible - some enormous crash, equalizing crash, whatever - may be coming around the corner.
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The Olympic games are already there and we don't have even half of what you need to train well.
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Never chase a lie. Let it alone, and it will run itself to death.
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A lot of us simply disengaged from politics altogether, but then we woke up and went wow, wait a minute. Why does that insane conversation get to dominate? Who made those people the creators of the conversation? And how can we start a new one?
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Global climate change is a big deal to me. We need to change our ways.
