Bill Nye Quotes
If the Earth gets hit by an asteroid, it's game over. It's control-alt-delete for civilization.
Quotes to Explore
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Today, I guess I give a lot more thought to the roles before I sign them.
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Be a good-looking corpse. Leave a good-looking tattoo.
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I guess I'm way too kind and generous, and a saint - if you can believe that!
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There are some things that money can't buy: peace of mind, for starters, and lean muscle mass. Neither the Queen of England nor the founder of Microsoft can put in an order for either one.
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I shall have a beautiful dream tonight. I also wish everyone to have a beautiful dream.
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Here's how I work: It's 2013, and most marketers are operating like it's 2009. I'm always trying to market like it's 2015, but not like it's 2020. A lot of my contemporaries who understand where the world is going, go too far out, and aren't practical. I have always prided myself on being visionary, with a heavy practicality.
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The majority of people who buy homes in golf course communities don't play golf. Golf is way down at the bottom in terms of total numbers and growth.
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I love things that are indescribable, like the taste of an avocado or the smell of a gardenia.
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I just feel I've got thousands and thousands of young fans that have to learn about what's real when it comes to AIDS.
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Crankiness is a human attribute that, when people walk in the door of Xerox, they remain human. The best way to get the best out of people is to not force them to be something other than they naturally are. Now what do they have to be? They have to be respectful. You can't be ridiculously disrespectful.
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Adversity has ever been considered the state in which a man most easily becomes acquainted with himself.
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When you're bad in the NBA, you're in the lottery. When you're great in college, you get multiple lottery picks.
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Like any group that has endured much, African Americans have created a strong and mutually reinforcing sense of group identity. That's not a bad thing in and of itself.
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I'm always thinking, 'My goodness, I got booked again!' So I am really happy to still be working.
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I developed the habit of writing novels behind a closed door, or at my uncle's, on the dining table.
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Growing up in the time of Title IX - it was passed when I was 10 - I got a front-row seat to so many great moments in women's sports. Of course I didn't know it at the time.
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I have this habit to bow my head, as to look shorter, maybe as a result of an unconscious demand of not taking up so much space.
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I did a crazy version of 'Romeo and Juliet' once, and I played Romeo.
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Working is a great distraction technique.
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There's nothing that cannot be found through some search engine or on the Internet somewhere.
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Having children is like having a bowling alley installed in your brain.
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As all the perfumes of the vanished dayRise from the earth still moistened with the dewSo from my chastened soul beneath thy rayOld love is born anew.
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You just have to sit down and write the next book. I mean, it's not all uncommon for a writer to get a ton of publicity for one book and then not get as much for the next one. I don't worry about that because I try to worry about the one single part of the job I can control: the writing of the book.
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If the Earth gets hit by an asteroid, it's game over. It's control-alt-delete for civilization.
