Neil deGrasse Tyson Quotes
Big ideas, big ambitious projects need to be embedded within culture at a level deeper than the political winds. It needs to be deeper than the economic fluctuations that could turn people against an expensive project because they're on an unemployment line and can't feed their families.
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When you run the marathon, you run against the distance, not against the other runners and not against the time.
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Any manager can do well in an expanding market.
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After all, film is so porous, and to my mind, so oddly occult, that I think that film itself absorbs odd energies like a living skin.
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I look forward to a time when my career in a place where I can get out of Los Angeles and find a nice small town like I grew up in to raise my family.
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Gun owners and non-gun owners alike agree on expanding background checks, making gun trafficking a serious crime with stiff penalties, making it illegal for all stalkers and all domestic abusers to buy guns, and expanding mental health resources so the mentally ill find it easier to receive treatment than to buy firearms.
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The men and women of my generation are heirs to that great collective success which has been admired worldwide and of which we are so proud. It is now up to us to pass it on to the coming generations.
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We have to balance the lineality of the known universe with the nonlineality of the unknown universe.
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The natural liberty of man is to be free from any superior power on Earth, and not to be under the will or legislative authority of man, but only to have the law of nature for his rule.
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I work legs, upper body, everything. Legs are very important. I do hang cleans and squats - I do primary exercises. Squats work over 60 percent of your muscle mass in your body. The hang cleans work on my explosive movement, which is essential for success.
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I'm fascinated by the way Diane Arbus saw things. She came from this fashion background and then twisted it.
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It's quite absurd to act against a smoke creature that is not there.
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Pregnancy is something that I always love. It's about hope and the future and a new baby.
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In a sense I portray myself in a very androgynous way, and I love androgyny.
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Only free people have an incentive to be virtuous. Only people who bear the consequences of their own acts will care about those consequences and try to learn from their mistakes.
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But since I am in the music industry, I don't want anyone to download music, not on September 9th.
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Only when I came to America did I think of myself as British.
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I'm fascinated by sports, the buzz of winning, and the buzz of losing.
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I don't think I have the ability or patience to teach badminton to others.
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I now have great color sprinkled throughout my herd.
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This is becoming a real problem. There's competition to keep costs down and prices low. That comes at the expense of doing due diligence, market research, and having focus groups test products.
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It's fun singing with other people who are really good singers. There's something kind of poignant about braiding a couple vocals.
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Music became my focus. At 13, I was jamming with my mates. At 15, I was playing clubs.
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The winners shouldn't necessarily win, and the losers shouldn't necessarily lose.
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Big ideas, big ambitious projects need to be embedded within culture at a level deeper than the political winds. It needs to be deeper than the economic fluctuations that could turn people against an expensive project because they're on an unemployment line and can't feed their families.
