Neil deGrasse Tyson Quotes
The idea that science is just some luxury that you'll get around to if you can afford it is regressive to any future a country might dream for itself.

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When you encounter difficulties and contradictions, do not try to break them, but bend them with gentleness and time.
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I don't ever know where I'm going. Because one of the wonderful things about writing, which is different than working in programming, you don't need to know. You could just write and discover where you're going. And it's a great deal of fun.
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I went through a lot in middle school, and you always try so many different looks and try to be so many different people. I finally realized I'm awkward, I'm lanky, and I'm going to embrace it - make fun of myself and just laugh.
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I work in the most non-Communist job. I work for 'Martha Stewart Living.'
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It never occurred to me that some people were seen as wrong or even different.
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Execution as punishment is barbaric and unnecessary.
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I want to entertain people, but with some substance.
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Think what evil creeps liberals would be if their plans to enfeeble the individual, exhaust the economy, impede the rule of law, and cripple national defense were guided by a coherent ideology instead of smug ignorance.
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You may get real tired watching me, but I'm not going to quit.
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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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The interaction of the variation in our genes is what's responsible for lots of our attributes and vigor.
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It's very difficult to raise money, especially in the United States, for independent movies.
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Maven is very much a haunting presence in 'Glass Sword.' His influence is everywhere, and he dogs Mare and Cal like no other. He's my favorite character to write because he's so complex, but also because he affects everyone else so deeply. He's kind of like the source of gravity. Everyone moves around him and what he's done.
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Depending on where my self-confidence was, growing up, I would use humor either to bring people closer, or to keep them away from certain feelings I had.
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I do believe the potential for ConnectU was as big as Facebook's, absolutely.
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I get more fulfilment from being a father than I do from being an actor.
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By constant contemplation of excellence, we clear our selfhood of all dross and impurities.
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Boundaries are actually the main factor in space, just as the present, another boundary, is the main factor in time.
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I only became a celebrity because I had a kid. Before I was pregnant nobody cared. I joke to my agent that having a baby made my career.
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Well, we're all going to die, so mortality is a part of writing and life.
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The people I choose as models have a quality that seems to contain the past, the present, and the future all at once. It's hard to explain. I can look at 100 people in a room but only find it in one person.
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The word 'grace' means after we must have done everything humanly possible, we must leave the issue with God. That is grace.
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When I paint, I seriously consider the public presence of a person - the surface facade. I am less concerned with how people look when they wake up or how they act at home. A person's public presence reflects his own efforts at image development.
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The idea that science is just some luxury that you'll get around to if you can afford it is regressive to any future a country might dream for itself.