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.

  

  Saint Francis de Sales
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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.

  

  Walter Mosley
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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.

  

  Ireland Baldwin
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• I work in the most non-Communist job. I work for 'Martha Stewart Living.'

  

  Said Sayrafiezadeh
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• It never occurred to me that some people were seen as wrong or even different.

  

  Olivia Wilde
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• Execution as punishment is barbaric and unnecessary.

  

  Kate Mulgrew
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• I want to entertain people, but with some substance.

  

  Irrfan Khan
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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.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
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• You may get real tired watching me, but I'm not going to quit.

  

  Harrison Ford
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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.

  

  Madonna Breakfast Club
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• The interaction of the variation in our genes is what's responsible for lots of our attributes and vigor.

  

  Walter Gilbert
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• It's very difficult to raise money, especially in the United States, for independent movies.

  

  Gael Garcia Bernal
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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.

  

  Victoria Aveyard
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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.

  

  Zach Anner
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• I do believe the potential for ConnectU was as big as Facebook's, absolutely.

  

  Cameron Winklevoss
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• I get more fulfilment from being a father than I do from being an actor.

  

  Aaron Taylor-Johnson
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• By constant contemplation of excellence, we clear our selfhood of all dross and impurities.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
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• Boundaries are actually the main factor in space, just as the present, another boundary, is the main factor in time.

  

  Eduardo Chillida
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  • Present

• It's important for whoever is governor to be somebody with a breadth of experience in life, in business, and in service.

  

  Maggie Hassan
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• I guess coming after 'Country Grammar' and everybody thinking, 'Well maybe, that was it.' To come back with something like 'Nellyville' and to have people accept it and appreciate it the way they did, that was a great move.

  

  Nelly
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• Rise! ye gallant youth of Britain,Gather to your country's call,On your hearts her name is written,Rise to help her, one and all!

  

  Martin Farquhar Tupper
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• I think what human beings need is to be able to laugh at the absurd, hold on to ambiguity, and learn to love nuance, instead of making everything one or the other, and structurally, so much of the Internet and online publishing doesn't have room for any of that.

  

  Tavi Gevinson
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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.

  

  Neil deGrasse Tyson
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