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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Kids are brought into show business because they are cute and see truth and they're very bright. But there's a sense of doing it because you want the adults to be approving of you. You want to make them happy.
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I prefer the emotion that corrects the rule.
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I don't want to play everyone's best friend. I don't want to play the role of a girl struggling in the ghetto. It's not that that story isn't important, but I saw patterns, and was like, 'I don't relate to these people.'
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Hopefully, one day people will be able to look at Mumford & Sons and say, 'that's a career band.' It's all about time instead of sales.
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When I meet people after stand-up shows, they'll bring their cars.
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No one is dumb who is curious. The people who don't ask questions remain clueless throughout their lives.
