Neil deGrasse Tyson Quotes
You can't come away with this cosmic perspective thinking that you are better than others and want to fight. That's why you'll never have astrophysicists leading nations into war.
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The Sangh Parivar, against which I had been waging a war, misled the people. My opponents used the Election Commission and the bureaucracy to win a political battle.
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People desire power. I don't know why they want it so. It seems to me it implies a hugely superior intellect which separates them from most of the populace.
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On Earth, men and women are taking the same risks. Why shouldn't we be taking the same risks in space?
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Seen from the United States or Europe, Iran's nuclear program often causes most concern, but from the perspective of countries in the Asia-Pacific region, the North Korean program is equally worrying.
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Reality is what you can count on.
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We took a plant that was being closed by a big company thinking there was no good use for it, and we came in with a different perspective. We bought some used equipment, as simple as we could.
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Allow the president to invade a neighboring nation whenever he shall deem it necessary to repel an invasion,and you allow him to do so whenever he may choose to say he deems it necessary for such purpose - and you allow him to make war at pleasure.
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My live show is almost like a meditation. An emotional apex - that's what I want it to feel like.
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If you know your characters well enough, you aren't trying to grasp for storylines. You're really thinking about their flaws and their passions and what they're chasing.
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Why can't I just eat my waffle?
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I'm definitely a glass-is-always-half-full, not half-empty, kind of person. Which is why I love living in America.
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When I returned to the United States after three years of World War II service, my total assets consisted of one wife, one small daughter, $276 in the bank, and an idea. The idea was for an export business to supply items badly needed everywhere in Europe.
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Creative thinking inspires ideas. Ideas inspire change.
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I don't think people spend nearly enough time thinking about what they like and what they're good at.
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We advised them to do what they think proper against the war.
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I knew I was a good stage actor but I had no idea about movies. And I wasn't a Paul Newman type of guy. That's why I thought the stage is just right for me.
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Why limit yourself? I feel like I can do anything.
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He said that if we were going to have a war, they would never be the first ones to start it.
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The trouble was, if you were a chief you had to think, you had to be wise.
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The less I talk about being black, the better.
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There are thousands of good-looking women out there. Longevity for a heroine doesn't come only with good looks: talent matters.
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I went to a Catholic school with 40 kids total. There were no cliques, but I suppose I was the 'sporty good girl.'
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Was not necessity the plea of every illegal exertion of power or exercise of oppression?...Necessity is the plea for very infringement of human freedom. It is the argument of tyrants; it is the creed of slaves.
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You can't come away with this cosmic perspective thinking that you are better than others and want to fight. That's why you'll never have astrophysicists leading nations into war.
