Neil deGrasse Tyson Quotes
The urge to miniaturize electronics did not exist before the space program. I mean our grandparents had radios that was furniture in the living room. Nobody at the time was saying, 'Gee, I want to carry that in my pocket.' Which is a non-thought.
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I try and take lots of vitamins and I don't drink. I do smoke, though, I'd be insufferable if I didn't smoke, you'd have to push me off a balcony I'd be so boring.
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Obamacare is going to destroy the elderly by denying care, by even perhaps denying treatment to people who are in catastrophic circumstances.
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I love engaging in conversation with other moms because we can relate to one another, and we swap valuable insight and information.
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I think if I heard someone else talking about their life, describing all the problems I've had, they'd look like they were through. Done. But there's something about me - I'm smiling. Those things are really not bad enough to put me in a slump. I'm smiling with the opportunity to wake up every morning.
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Dave thought he was bigger than Van Halen the band. So there was this catfight going on for 10 years.
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I played didgeridoo from a young age - on the vacuum cleaner, initially.
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My father was a teacher, and there were teachers all around, his friends, they were working for the Government and their behaviour was within strictly limited areas.
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Investing in Chicago property is just Wanda's first move into the U.S. real estate market.
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I did absolutely grow up in a world surrounded by people who were always performing and being flamboyant.
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Oh God, I don't know if I ever really felt beautiful. I don't, really.
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Our pluralist society must provide its citizens with the tools to understand religions, their symbols and their practices.
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I was raised on NBC television.
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I think when you start analyzing trends and start making shows for a particular audience, you are making a fatal move. I think that's why people are doing too many revivals, that's why there's a plethora of rock musicals. There's room for everything, but not room for too much of anything.
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Writing lyrics is part spontaneous, intuitive and part really thought through and carefully analyzed as you write it. It's a mixture of two approaches, and I imagine writing anything is like that, really. Some of it just flows, and you just go with it.
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On the tour we get a case of beer on the bus every day from Ozzfest.
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We all walk in the dark and each of us must learn to turn on his or her own light.
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Fashion should be playful.
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You either create something and you keep it a secret and you die with it, or you can benefit the craft.
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People don't like to feed live mice and rats to their snakes. Now we have a regular meat food that they will eat. Ninety percent of the snakes will eat this food and love it.
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Societies need rules that make no sense for individuals. For example, it makes no difference whether a single car drives on the left or on the right. But it makes all the difference when there are many cars!
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I don't have real big aspirations to be a movie star. I would love to be on a long-running hit TV show. You end up playing a defining role.
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I do like Burial; he's so curiously clumsy, you can't help but be moved. It's so un-Hollywood, and the rhythms are so un-danceable.
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People are proud of their players.
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The urge to miniaturize electronics did not exist before the space program. I mean our grandparents had radios that was furniture in the living room. Nobody at the time was saying, 'Gee, I want to carry that in my pocket.' Which is a non-thought.
