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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Style has a profound meaning to Black Americans. If we can’t drive, we will invent walks and the world will envy the dexterity of our feet. If we can’t have ham, we will boil chitterlings; if we are given rotten peaches, we will make cobblers; if given scraps, we will make quilts; take away our drums, and we will clap our hands. We prove the human spirit will prevail. We will take what we have to make what we need. We need confidence in our knowledge of who we are.
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Other people's creativity inspires me. Seeing great art, or reading a fab book or watching an interesting documentary or an exciting film - these things make me want to let my own imagination fly.
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I feel like my job is to look at the world and to report what I see, to write what I see as honestly and directly as I can. I don't want to cut it or make it easy, but be as direct as I can.
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People intrinsically know there are secrets being held from us. Look at WikiLeaks: There are secrets that are really true to the world.
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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.
