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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I've got quite a good poker face. I'm known for being able to keep my emotions very much in check: no one knows how I'm feeling. I can be winning or losing but keep it very much the same.
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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 personally like to do independent films.
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Why tell a story that people have seen 900 times? That's not interesting artistically.
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While the rest of the world has been improving technology, Ghana has been improving the quality of man's humanity to man.
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Film has to be reflecting the world that we live in, and that's all you want to be a part of. Actors inhabit the same planet as everyone else. It's a weird thing that happens when you're an actor because people hold you up because you somehow embody in parts groups of people or people's hopes or something.
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The Sunnis continue to see themselves, possibly for nostalgic reasons, as the most influential group and want a stronger central government - quite unlike minorities in other countries. The circumstances here are far more complex than many people in Washington imagine.
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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.
