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 work in the most non-Communist job. I work for 'Martha Stewart Living.'
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Execution as punishment is barbaric and unnecessary.
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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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My dad is always there for me, and no matter how busy, he always makes it a point to answer my calls. I think he knows what is best for me better than me and is very involved in planning my career. Feel blessed to have a dad like him.
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In China, you have to have a strong leader for a business to get anything done.
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For years I've wanted to write about the Australian countryside, but, like most Australians, I've only got a tourist's knowledge of it. I thought that if I disobeyed that basic rule of writing - write about what you know - I'd write a thin and inauthentic book.
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There is room for growth in all of us and across all of these platforms, to be able to make sure that we are hearing each other, that we are understanding exactly what's going on across the country.
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In no other country in the world is the love of property keener or more alert than in the United States, and nowhere else does the majority display less inclination toward doctrines which in any way threaten the way property is owned.
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I like different statement jewelry, especially around the ears.
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Women often come up not knowing how to make decisions. We get wishy-washy. We become great wage earners - breadwinners - but we don't know how to control empires.
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Nothing good ever happens after midnight.
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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.
