Bill Nye Quotes
I encourage you to look at the world around you and think about how it works. My friends, you can go forth and make this world a better place.
Quotes to Explore
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The father figure doesn't impress me. I have a very friendly relationship with my father, but that wasn't always the case. My mother had custody, and I only saw him every other weekend. I never knew him well enough for him to inspire me.
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The simpler I keep things, the better I play.
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Sandy Koufax went to the same school as me. I graduated two years ahead of Sandy.
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Each generation seems to invent its own reasons for war.
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I was real into Devo, Pavement, Captain Beefheart, and the Jon Spencer Blues Explosion.
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My real dream is that everybody will see their self-interest tied up with someone else, whether or not they see them, and see that as an opportunity for growing closer together as a culture and as a world.
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If you learn one thing from having lived through decades of changing views, it is that all predictions are necessarily false.
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I think I happened to work with sort of a bunch of slightly difficult male directors when I was a kid. I've since worked with lots of male directors that I love, so I no longer see the distinction gender-wise.
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I have this really high priority on happiness and finding something to be happy about.
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There's a monster outside my room, can I have a glass of water?
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A person isn't who they are during the last conversation you had with them - they're who they've been throughout your whole relationship.
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Get Miramax to send me down to Australia. I'd like to see it.
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The perceptive act is a reaction of the mind upon the object of which it is the perception.
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War is the continuation of politics by other means.
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We can succeed only by concert. It is not, 'Can any of us imagine better,' but, 'Can we all do better?'
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Push-ups, sit-ups, and a strict diet of raisins. That's my plan.
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What makes America special is that people come here, assimilate and become American with all of the rights and responsibilities citizenship bestows.
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That's why teenagers fascinate me – they're like children with drivers' licenses. Like children in that their impulses are so direct.
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I walked into a gunfight with a knife to kill you, and cut you so fast when your blood spilled it was still blue.
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Some statements concern the conscious states of the animal, what he is to himself as an inner life; others concern his original and acquired ways of response, his behavior, what he is an outside observer.
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Everything has its limit - iron ore cannot be educated into gold.
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We can realise a lasting peace and transform the East-West relationship to one of enduring co-operation.
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Yet, analytical truth is not as mysterious, or as secret, so as to not allow us to see that people with a talent for directing consciences see truth rise spontaneously.
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I encourage you to look at the world around you and think about how it works. My friends, you can go forth and make this world a better place.
