Neil deGrasse Tyson Quotes
No one is dumb who is curious. The people who don't ask questions remain clueless throughout their lives.
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I took my acting very seriously. I did over 40 films, and naturally, some of them were called B-movies because the woman was at the top of the billing. Women couldn't star in their own movies.
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I'm crazy about the Coen brothers, I'm crazy about Sean Penn. I love the usual suspects like Susan Sarandon, Meryl Streep and people like that.
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It sounds kind of stupid, but I've never not wanted to be a musician. It's been inside me since I was little so I don't know what else I would do.
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I worry about whether SBA programs are still doing what they are meant to do - support lenders who fund good business startups and good expansion plans.
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If you want to cultivate a habit, do it without any reservation, till it is firmly established. Until it is so confirmed, until it becomes a part of your character, let there be no exception, no relaxation of effort.
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Young people do not watch television; they are on the Internet.
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Diversity isn't just a hallmark of big cities anymore.
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I think, for the majority of my twenties, I was always so concerned with what I didn't have, or what I still wanted.
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Travel writing is harrowing. You are in paradise, more or less, having to prove it is paradise. It is hard to have a good time trying to figure out a way to say you are having a good time, whether you are having it or not, even in paradise.
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I was a huge comic book fan as a kid. The only problem I had with comic books is how expensive they got. I didn't have a lot of money, so I had to be very specific about what I wanted to collect. I think they're all somewhere in the basement of my folks' house.
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I even lived on campus to get the college experience. I had five roommates and I still keep in touch with them while I'm on the road.
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The mud is cold when you're in the north of Scotland!
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My brother is really, really slow.
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As a young teenager I looked desperately for things to read that might excuse me or assure me I wasn't the only one, that might confirm an identity I was unhappily piecing together.
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I attend Internet conferences all the time, and they literally make the hairs on the back of my neck stand up.
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When you're the victim of the behavior, it's black and white; when you're the perpetrator, there are a million shades of gray.
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It's superficial that people think I'm cool because I wear certain clothes and I have tattoos. The funniest part is, when they get to know me, they're always surprised by how nerdy I am.
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Some people say they have a thirst for life. They're excited about every day and they're prepared to look the bad and the good straight in the face and greet it all with a smile. I like to think I'm one of those people.
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I always told people in the private sector, 'You can be the smartest person in the world, you can have the very best ideas, but if you can't sell them and you can't get other people to work with you, you're not going to succeed.'
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There are one or two very good women military historians who use imagination, great study and research; they can put themselves in the boots of the soldier.
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No one is dumb who is curious. The people who don't ask questions remain clueless throughout their lives.
