Bill Nye Quotes
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To be thrown onto the stand-up stage is an experience that you cannot fathom until you're actually there, because there's no place to go, and everyone is looking at you and you can't even see them because of the lights. And yet you have to manage to start talking and be funny on top of it.
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Palestinian propagandists can say and do anything they please without concern for the truth, in the belief that if they repeat it often enough it will simply become the truth.
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Crime stories are our version of sitting round a camp fire and telling tales. We enjoy being scared under safe circumstances. That's why there's no tradition of crime writing in countries that have wars.
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With my parents, when I was younger, I always had to do two things. If I was acting, I always had to do a sport or something on the arts side of things along with that. That way, if one fell apart, I always had something else to fall back on.
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I'd say, if you want to be an artist, start with your art; start with making great music and it will, hopefully, eventually cut through all of the nonsense that is out there.
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I do not consider the Lisbon Treaty to be a good thing for Europe, for the freedom of Europe, or for the Czech Republic.
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You never want to have that ticking clock and know that you had all this time and didn't use it.
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If you eat something and get fat, you should be responsible for it. I think that is the attitude of the great majority of Americans, that you should be responsible for what you eat.
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I've come to learn that the determined and gifted and genuine sociopath has far more power to deceive than we realize.
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My wife attends a Presbyterian church.
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All happiness or unhappiness solely depends upon the quality of the object to which we are attached by love.
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I'm from Long Beach - not the best area in the world - and I had a lot of ghetto friends growing up.
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If you're not bruised up, then you're not doing an action film in a real way.
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Banks are an almost irresistible attraction for that element of our society which seeks unearned money.
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In business, every phase of things counts. Companies that just yell out a low price today to win business aren't going to make money in the long term.
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Intuition and concepts constitute... the elements of all our knowledge, so that neither concepts without an intuition in some way corresponding to them, nor intuition without concepts, can yield knowledge.
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I think management and technology all come into play in building a super-yacht. It is a challenge - a serious challenge.
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You can become quite blase, and also, I have no sense of home; I don't have roots. I've never had that feeling that someone else is going to take care of me, ever. I don't trust people.
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You don't have to be brought up in a grand house to have a sense of the past, and I truly believe that there are certain people to whom or through whom the territory - the place, the past - speaks.
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My family, my background... it just parallels really nicely with a lot of social and cultural movements.
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I don't really think about anything too much. I live in the present. I move on. I don't think about what happened yesterday.
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The Obama administration deserves credit for quickly ending the housing free fall. In particular, Obama empowered the Federal Housing Administration to ensure that households could find mortgages at low interest rates even during the worst phase of the financial panic.
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If we found life on Mars, it would change everybody's view of our place in space.
