Bill Nye Quotes

I say to the grownups, 'If you want to deny evolution and live in your world that's completely inconsistent with everything we've observed in the universe that's fine. But don't make your kids do it.'

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• The average man's judgment is so poor, he runs a risk every time he uses it.

  

  E. W. Howe
  • Time
  • Man
  • Risk

• You know, I'm an African-American quarterback. That may scare a lot of people because they – they haven't seen nothing that they can compare me to.

  

  Cam Newton
  • People
  • Me
  • Scare

• Don't try to guess what it is people want and give it to them. Don't ask for a show of hands. Try your best to write what you like, what you think your friends would like and what you think your father would like and then cross your fingers... The most valuable thing you have is your own voice.

  

  Aaron Sorkin
  • People
  • Friends
  • Father

• He has a right to criticize, who has a heart to help.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Heart
  • Help
  • Right

• Even with my wife, I find sharing soup is hard.

  

  Wallace Shawn
  • Wife
  • Soup
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• Maybe some people that only listen to electronic music will pick up my record and get turned on to some of the story songs, some of the more country-type stuff.

  

  Zac Brown Band
  • People
  • Up
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• It's not enough to just mildly want what you want. You must wildly want what you want. Nobody ever got their greatest wishes by being wishy-washy. You need to put extreme energy into your power of intention to win what you wanna win.

  

  Karen Salmansohn
  • Power
  • Energy
  • Win

• I like being unconventional.

  

  Florence Griffith Joyner
  • Like
  • Being
  • Unconventional

• After the 9/11 incidents, Islam has become a big question mark among westerners, especially Americans. The mass media constantly raise the issue of relationship between Islam and terrorism.

  

  Abdolkarim Soroush
  • Relationship
  • Question
  • Media

• There's a monster outside my room, can I have a glass of water?

  

  M. Night Shyamalan
  • Water
  • Monster
  • Glass

• We younger Negro artists who create now intend to express our individual dark-skinned selves without fear or shame. If white people are pleased, we are glad. If they are not, it doesn't matter. We know we are beautiful. And ugly too.

  

  Langston Hughes
  • People
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  • Fear

• Some musicians I know are incredible fathers. Like Keith Richards. A fantastic dad.

  

  Jack Bruce Cream
  • Know
  • Dad
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• Conflict is very much a state of mind. If you're not in that state of mind, it doesn't bother you.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Mind
  • You
  • Conflict

• Rand Paul does not like being compared to his father Ron any more than sons named Bush like to dance in their father's shadow, but the crucial difference is that while the Bushes all hail from the relative mainstream of the GOP, the Pauls have an ideological tributary virtually to themselves.

  

  Nancy Gibbs
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• Fame is a delicate and dangerous creature; I saw people who didn't honor it, who refused to take responsibility for it, get destroyed by it. I also saw that stardom in and of itself was empty.

  

  Patrick Dempsey
  • People
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• If God is not sending earthquakes, destroying economies and inflicting pain upon human beings, what is God doing? God works through people, calling them to help their neighbors in need. God comforts His people, walking with them even 'through the valley of the shadow of death.'

  

  Adam Hamilton
  • People
  • God
  • Help

• Happy to see that the Automobile Club of Monaco, opened its doors to the public to attend a considerable event. The promotion of this event will be made by the image and by the text, but still by word of mouth.

  

  Jacky Ickx
  • Happy
  • See
  • Text

• I love Expedia.

  

  Dara Khosrowshahi

• I'd rather be biblically correct than politically correct.

  

  Mark Batterson

• The world is turning,I hope it don't turn away.

  

  Neil Young Buffalo Springfield
  • World
  • Hope

• Unlike art, the consumption of fashion is not based primarily on knowledge or education but functions through visual awareness, a type of sensuality and perception of the corporeal self.

  

  Valerie Fahnestock Steele
  • Art
  • Knowledge
  • Education

• When I walked in to read with Edie Falco, it was nice, because I auditioned in New York, and it was very quick. You walk in, there's Edie, the producers, the director, and a camera. I read three scenes, and it was done.

  

  Adam Ferrara
  • Done
  • Nice
  • New York

• I say to the grownups, 'If you want to deny evolution and live in your world that's completely inconsistent with everything we've observed in the universe that's fine. But don't make your kids do it.'

  

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