Neil deGrasse Tyson Quotes

The only driver stronger than an economic argument to do something is the war argument, the I-don't-want-to-die argument.

Neil deGrasse Tyson

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• Romeo Must Die came at the right time. It was the right vehicle for me.

  

  Aaliyah
  • Time
  • Me
  • Die

• Of course I want to look well and fit - and as an athlete, I want to look strong.

  

  Venus Williams
  • Want
  • Strong
  • Look

• Indeed, for almost 10 years, Moscow had to carry on a war unsupportable by the government, a conflict that brought about the demoralization and finally the breakup of the Soviet empire.

  

  Zbigniew Brzezinski
  • War
  • Government
  • Conflict

• Much of the conventional wisdom associated with Vietnam was highly inaccurate. Far from an inevitable result of the imperative to contain communism, the war was only made possible through lies and deceptions aimed at the American public, Congress, and members of Lyndon Johnson's own administration.

  

  H. R. McMaster
  • American
  • War
  • Wisdom

• Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone.

  

  Pablo Picasso
  • Die
  • Wisdom
  • Tomorrow

• Looking back, there is nothing wrong with that peace, love and equality that the hippies espoused. In many ways, we have regressed because they were into organic food, back to nature, make love not war, be good to all men, share and share alike - which is what many are talking about now.

  

  Imelda Staunton
  • Men
  • War
  • Nature

• Old habits die hard. I don't like spending money willy-nilly.

  

  Jack McBrayer
  • Money
  • Die
  • Habits

• People die because they find living too painful.

  

  Malcolm Fraser
  • People
  • Die
  • Living

• Only the winners decide what were war crimes.

  

  Garry Wills
  • War
  • Decide
  • Winners

• The way to win an atomic war is to make certain it never starts.

  

  Omar N. Bradley
  • War
  • Never
  • Win

• Here, in Cork district, you have in combination all the dangers which war can inflict.

  

  Eamon de Valera
  • War
  • Here
  • Combination

• Just about the entirety of the first album, 'Brown Sugar,' I wrote it, the majority of that record in my bedroom in Richmond. And all of the demos for it were done on a four-track in my bedroom. I think EMI was a little leery of me being in the studio producing it on my own, which is what I was fighting for.

  

  D'Angelo
  • Me
  • Fighting
  • Always

• I should contribute generously to the war chest of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union. But, I do not contribute at all.

  

  Larry MacPhail
  • War
  • Christian
  • Woman

• 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.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • May
  • War
  • Purpose

• I think what the Nobel committee is doing is going beyond war and looking at what humanity can do to prevent war. Sustainable management of our natural resources will promote peace.

  

  Wangari Maathai
  • War
  • Peace
  • Humanity

• Perhaps if all the peoples of the world understand what war really means, we would eliminate it.

  

  Walter Cronkite
  • World
  • War
  • Understand

• I've gone to war zones before and never got shot.

  

  Manute Bol
  • War
  • Never
  • Gone

• Israeli governments cling to the two-state notion because it seems to reflect the sentiments of the Jewish Israeli majority, and it shields the country from international opprobrium even as it camouflages relentless efforts to expand Israel's territory into the West Bank.

  

  Ian Lustick
  • Country
  • Bank
  • West

• I'm a huge Star Wars fan. I lost my Darth Vader watch.

  

  Rhona Mitra
  • War
  • Lost
  • Fans

• I'm an avid collector of toys. I got everything. Name it. From the Easy Bake Oven to Barbies to every TV show doll, racing cars... I've been collecting since I was a little kid.

  

  Marcel Theo Hall

• If I am judged for my work, many myths about me as an autocrat or otherwise would become clearer. I feel false propaganda will not last, and truth will ultimately prevail.

  

  Narendra Modi
  • Work
  • Truth
  • Propaganda

• If you can change your mind, you can change the world!

  

  Annaleigh Ashford
  • World
  • Mind

• General, I have been a soldier all my life. I have been with soldiers engaged in fights by couples, by squads, companies, regiments, divisions, and armies, and should know, as well as any one, what soldiers can do. It is my opinion that no fifteen thousand men ever arranged for battle can take that position.

  

  James Longstreet
  • Life
  • Men
  • Opinion

• The only driver stronger than an economic argument to do something is the war argument, the I-don't-want-to-die argument.

  

  Neil deGrasse Tyson
  • War
  • Die