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?

  

  Zlatan Ibrahimovic
  • People
  • Ego
  • Trophies

• Some men have a necessity to be mean, as if they were exercising a faculty which they had to partially neglect since early childhood.

  

  F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • Men
  • Childhood
  • Early

• 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.

  

  Bat for Lashes
  • People
  • Work
  • Why

• I like performing live more than anything. I get a little bit afraid in the studio.

  

  Valerie June
  • Live
  • Like
  • Afraid

• Power has long been regarded as morally corrosive, and we often suspect the intentions of those who seek it.

  

  Gary Hamel
  • Long
  • Power
  • Often

• 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.

  

  Francesco Guicciardini
  • Work
  • May
  • Power

• I have always been involved in my school's music program.

  

  Manika
  • Music
  • School
  • Always

• At an age when most actresses are being phased out, I am being phased in - with a vengeance.

  

  Candice Bergen
  • Actress
  • Vengeance
  • Phased

• There is something good in men that really yearn for discipline.

  

  Vince Lombardi
  • Good
  • Men
  • Discipline

• 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.

  

  Ramon Rodriguez
  • Up
  • Culture
  • Growing

• A tremendous amount of needless pain and suffering can be eliminated by ensuring that health insurance is universally available.

  

  Daniel Akaka
  • Health
  • Pain
  • Suffering

• 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.

  

  Edgar Allan Poe
  • Night

• One capitalist always kills many.

  

  Karl Marx

• 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.

  

  Oliver Sacks
  • Life
  • Great
  • History

• Belief in God is apparently a psychological artifact of mammalian reproduction.

  

  Arthur C. Clarke
  • God

• Singing into a cold wind is the worst nightmare for any singer. You could hear it in the voice.

  

  Joe Strummer The Clash
  • Singing
  • Cold
  • Wind

• 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.

  

  Marcus Aurelius
  • Justice
  • Animal

• 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.

  

  Margaret Thatcher
  • Freedom
  • Democracy
  • Violence

• If we have any hope for survival of the music that we all love, compassion must replace name-calling, fairness must replace greed, and we need to come together as a musical community and try to understand each other's problems.

  

  John Mellencamp
  • Music
  • Together
  • Hope

• Gay people, certainly gay people of my generation, at least of a certain echelon - middle-class Americans - have binocular vision. We all are raised by straight people and grow up with straight people and in straight families, but we all have this totally other way of looking at things. Increasingly as I get deeper into middle age, that is why I resist plunking for any one camp. Because I have this delicious sort of experience of being able to see things in two ways.

  

  Daniel Mendelsohn
  • People
  • Age
  • Growing

• Because of an off-hand funny comment I made backstage at a concert years ago, a story circulated that the song has been a burden and even that I didn’t sing it for a while. That’s completely false. I am very proud of ‘American Pie’ and the many satellites that grow from it and revolve around it. For many years I carried my songs around and now they carry me around. I have always sung ‘American Pie’ for my audience and would never think of disappointing them since it is they who have given me a wonderful life and untold affection for almost 30 years.

  

  Don McLean
  • Life
  • Thinking
  • Song

• Look at it this way: this administration is taking unprecedented steps to make sure that the government's secrets remain private while simultaneously invading the privacy of its citizens... Many innocents must be violated so that a few guilty people can be stopped. It's a digital stop-and-frisk...

  

  Charles M. Blow
  • People
  • Stop
  • Guilty

• I like to regard myself as someone who's capable of critical thought, that is to say, who can evaluate claims.

  

  Bill Nye