Bill Nye Quotes
I like to regard myself as someone who's capable of critical thought, that is to say, who can evaluate claims.
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If I had an ego as big as the Eiffel Tower, would I have won this many collective trophies? I know people like to talk about it. And O.K., I am not going to answer every story. But maybe I will let my collective trophies speak for themselves. I don't know many other footballers who have won as much. Do you?
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Some men have a necessity to be mean, as if they were exercising a faculty which they had to partially neglect since early childhood.
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I feel empathy for people who are trapped in a prison of self-consciousness in an uncomfortable way. We can be free, but we're so held back. So perhaps that's why I feel a duty to make my work. I feel liberated when I'm doing it, and I want other people to feel liberated through it.
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I like performing live more than anything. I get a little bit afraid in the studio.
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Power has long been regarded as morally corrosive, and we often suspect the intentions of those who seek it.
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Few revolutions succeed, and when they do, you often discover they did not gain what you hoped for, and you condemn yourself to perpetual fear, as the parties you defeated may always regain power and work for your ruin.
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I have always been involved in my school's music program.
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At an age when most actresses are being phased out, I am being phased in - with a vengeance.
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There is something good in men that really yearn for discipline.
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Growing up in New York City, my car culture is minimal. I rode on the train, the bus. I walked; I rode my bike, and when I was younger, I rode my skateboard.
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A tremendous amount of needless pain and suffering can be eliminated by ensuring that health insurance is universally available.
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The skies they were ashen and sober;The leaves they were crisped and sere - The leaves they were withering and sere;It was night in the lonesome OctoberOf my most immemorial year.
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My own first love was biology. I spent a great part of my adolescence in the Natural History museum in London (and I still go to the Botanic Garden almost every day, and to the Zoo every Monday). The sense of diversity-of the wonder of innumerable forms of life-has always thrilled me beyond anything else.
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Belief in God is apparently a psychological artifact of mammalian reproduction.
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In the constitution of that rational animal I see no virtue which is opposed to justice, but I see a virtue which is opposed to love of pleasure, and that is temperance.
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You never compromise with violence. You never compromise with intimidation. You never compromise by those who want to use those to extinguish freedom and democracy, because if you do then the very things for which you stand are extinguished.
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Apocatastasis. What it means: 1) Restoration, re-establishment, renovation 2) Return to a previous condition 3) (Astronomy) Return to the same apparent position, completion of a period of revolution. Think about it.
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Applause is a receipt, not a note of demand.
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Nothing would please me more than if they were released in the next few days, but I don't want to raise the hopes of people detained.
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We have made a commitment to feed 20-million people over the next two years. We are somewhere around 10 million. But I can promise you that we are not going to stop at 20 million. Because hunger, there is almost no cure for it. You can take care of the problem today, but it is a recurring problem.
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It took seventeen years to get from my second novel, 'Truck,' to my third, 'Geek Love.'
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One of the few benefits of being a journalist is that you're not in the Army.
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I like to regard myself as someone who's capable of critical thought, that is to say, who can evaluate claims.
