Neil deGrasse Tyson Quotes

I can't tell you how many people say they were turned off from science because of a science teacher that completely sucked out all the inspiration and enthusiasm they had for the course.

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• When it's those division games, that's when it gets ramped up for me.

  

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• I've been following what's happening in Colombia because it's the country of my childhood.

  

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• Mikhail Gorbachev was the Jimmy Carter of the Communist bloc. The Russians hate him.

  

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• My parents and my brother instilled in me my sense of humor. That's kind of the way we communicate with each other, and it's always been a way for me to get to know people.

  

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• Inspire your children. I promise, your kids will think you're cool if you do this. They may not tell you that now, but they'll thank you later in life.

  

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• The politics of the Cape Town Metro, which allows an executive Mayoral committee to make secret decisions which affect you, behind closed doors, is wrong!

  

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• For me, clean fuels translates into cleaner air for Oregonians. I think that's a good thing.

  

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• I'm the most Colombian of the Colombians, even though I've lived 47 years outside of Colombia. I've lived 13 years in New York, and I never did a painting about New York. I've lived in France more than 30 years, and I've never painted Paris.

  

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• I don't believe in miracles.

  

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• I've worked with a lot of really great actors, but it's not very often that you all bond so easily.

  

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• I don't have a fear of aging or a fear of death.

  

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• I've always had a passion for music, but I never saw me as a musician for a living. I never thought that I could make a living. It never dawned on me.

  

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• It was not my dream to be an artist. How could it have been? I thought, artist, much like a leader, was something you either were or weren't. Never something you set out to be.

  

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• When I was a teenager, reading for me was as normal, as unremarkable as eating or breathing. Reading gave flight to my imagination and strengthened my understanding of the world, the society I lived in, and myself. More importantly, reading was fun, a way to live more than one life as I immersed myself in each good book I read.

  

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• We are all totally committed as elite athletes. To think that pushing people around and bullying them is the best way to get results out of them is just ludicrous.

  

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• I was lucky to have my allergist who diagnosed me with CIU.

  

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• I am just a plain Jew; I mean have no training.

  

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• When people are depending on us, we end up finding strength we didn't know we had.

  

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• I prefer home-schooling because you can work at your own pace and go towards more what you're interested in, whether it be history or geography or math.

  

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• I really thought I wanted to be a lawyer, but then I had an epiphany when I was in law school and dropped out. I'd always been a journalism junkie, but I'd never had confidence to think that I could actually edit or write the stories.

  

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• A law is a law, and it has to be respected.

  

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• Most of my records are never going to be commercial successes, and I don't expect that. It's just all a learning process to me. If something appears as a failure, fine. If there's success, fine. I like the record, and my friends like the record, and that's kind of all I can really care about.

  

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• I can't tell you how many people say they were turned off from science because of a science teacher that completely sucked out all the inspiration and enthusiasm they had for the course.

  

  Neil deGrasse Tyson
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