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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Never fear to deliberately walk through dark places, for that is how you reach the light on the other side.
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You have no power at all if you do not exercise constant power.
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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 did every job under the sun from bartending to ushering to temping.
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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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I connect with people on a daily basis.
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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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What I worry about and don't like is the way in which the ideology of multiculturalism has declined into cultural relativism. I think that's very dangerous. When the Archbishop of Canterbury, for God's sake, says that you can't have one law for everybody... that's stupid.
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When the man governed by self-interest, the god of this world, does not renounce it but merely refines it by the use of reason and extends it beyond the constricting boundary of the present, he is represented (Luke XVI, 3-9) as one who, in his very person as servant, defrauds his master self- interest and wins from him sacrifices in behalf of 'duty.'
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Every good band in the world was a cover band first. The Beatles were and the Stones were. Everybody was a cover band.
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Isn't atheism just another religion?' No, it isn't. Atheism has no creeds, rituals, holy book, absolute moral code, origin myth, sacred spaces or shrines. It has no sin, divine judgment, forbidden words, prayer, worship, prophecy, group privileges, or anointed 'holy' leaders. Atheists don't believe in a transcendent world or supernatural afterlife. Most important, there is no orthodoxy in atheism.
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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.
