Neil deGrasse Tyson Quotes
I want people to see that the cosmic perspective is simultaneously honest about the universe we live in and uplifting, when we realize how far we have come and how wonderful is this world of ours.
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In Hollywood, you can live alongside very famous but still incredibly boring people. I've never wanted to be immortal. Even if nobody remembers me after my death, it's still okay with me.
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I've never left them to go do a film. No, we all go together. I could never leave them. My kids are my whole world.
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Another occupation might have been better.
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With my victory, I must always remember that I glorify God.
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I think same sex couples should be able to get married.
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Feeling really safe as an actor is not a great thing because you're not learning or growing.
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I go to Malawi twice a year. It's where two of my children were adopted from, and I have a lot of projects there that I go and check up on and children who I look after. It's sort of a commitment that I've made to this country and the hundreds of thousands of children there who have been orphaned by AIDS.
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America believes what's good for us is good for the world. It's very difficult to understand that that's not necessarily true.
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I've had the privilege of meeting and/or interviewing most of the top metal and hard rock artists at various points in my career and sharing their stories and music with millions of fans on air through TV and radio.
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I've always thought of fat as just a descriptive word.
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Unless you work for '60 Minutes', your life is: You do stories about things, and nothing happens as a result.
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I've always had great faith in the Man Upstairs.
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Everyone wants me to be perfect, but I am so far from perfect!
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The 77 cents that women make for every dollar men earn makes a real difference to our families - families stretching to make every dollar count.
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I sense that by writing both books and television, I've become better at each.
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A man cannot become an atheist merely by wishing it.
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I tell people marriage is a compromise, and so are renovations.
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I can never believe how much time and energy and money and talent and everything else is being poured into horrible ideas.
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I hope my recordings of my own works won't inhibit other people's performances. The brutal fact is that one doesn't always get the exact tempo one wants, although one improves with experience.
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Alcohol, tobacco, and pharmaceutical drugs are legal, but they can hurt a lot of people.
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Musicians play music because you love... I loved to play drums since I was five. It's all I ever wanted to do. Rock stars, or as we call them, posers, guys who want to just look great, dress great. They're not musicians; they're looking for the fame.
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On television, you have an intimate moment with the camera. In theater, you are making something live with people there. My brain doesn't understand that you don't get another take ever. I'm finally learning on TV that you can do something over if you make a mistake.
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Romantic literature is in effect imaginative lying.
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I want people to see that the cosmic perspective is simultaneously honest about the universe we live in and uplifting, when we realize how far we have come and how wonderful is this world of ours.
