Bill Nye Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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The Beduin could not look for God within him: he was too sure that he was within God.
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Just to be is a blessing. Just to live is holy.
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All my life the only thing I've been good at has been climbing and throwing myself off big things.
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I'm a huge historical fiction and non-fiction fan.
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No matter what a woman looks like, if she's confident, she's sexy.
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Satire is, by definition, offensive. It is meant to make us feel uncomfortable. It is meant to make us scratch our heads, think, do a double-take, and then think again.
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I had a good guitar, and I was a young, young kid.
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I think what it really is, is that I date creative people. And I think that what intimidates them is not my purse; it's my mind.
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Between 1776 and 1789, Americans replaced a government over them with a government under them. They have worried ever since about keeping it under. Distrust of its powers has been more common and more visible than distrust of the imperial authority of England ever was before the Revolution.
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Guys usually know immediately that I'm high-maintenance.
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It's much better to wreak havoc on a show and be a maniac than promote myself. Plugs and anecdotes aren't really in line with my beliefs. Besides, if someone sees me on a morning show and thinks, 'That's not funny; this guy is crazy,' then I don't want them to come to the show anyway.
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An unjust law is itself a species of violence. Arrest for its breach is more so.
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I am not a second option person. It is that or nothing. If it is not the way I see it I prefer not to see it.
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Private education can give you confidence, which is marvellous; a sense of entitlement isn't.
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Even on TV appearances or big shows, I don't know if I've ever been as nervous as I was my first time doing stand-up. I just remember getting offstage and sitting down, and my right knee was just shaking from the adrenaline.
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I think human nature is eternal and constant.
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For me, Warhol made so much sense.
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When my kids were growing up, I wanted their teachers to teach them science, reading, math and history. I also wanted them to care about my kids. But I did not want my children's public school teachers teaching them religion. That was my job as a parent and the job of our church, Sunday school, and youth group.
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Harry Collins was the first magician I ever saw back in 1965 when I was five years old. He was doing a magic show and I was the volunteer from the audience.
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I truly believe that when you're funny, you're blessed. Your whole life is kind of golden. I was happy, although it was not perfect happiness. There was illness and sadness and death.
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The smarter the journalists are, the better off society is. For to a degree, people read the press to inform themselves - and the better the teacher, the better the student body.
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I like to be human and not lose myself in becoming a mannequin, which people in showbiz are accused of.
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Humor is everywhere in that there's irony in just about anything a human does.
