Neil deGrasse Tyson Quotes
The solar system should be viewed as our backyard, not as some sequence of destinations that we do one at a time.
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My view is that life is too short. I'm not being melodramatic or anything, but when your mother dies in your arms - just you and her, and it's one o'clock in the morning, and you're waiting for her to exhale - you just think, life's too bloody short to argue about the little things.
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I keep waiting for a paradigm shift to happen that will let network and studio execs see that sci-fi is the same as any other genre in terms of how you approach it - logically, character-based, with challenging ideas and forward thinking - but I worry that it might never happen in my lifetime.
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The disappearance of MH370 has tested our collective resolve.
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M.G.M. never really gave me a break. They loaned me out for leading roles but cast me in programme pictures.
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My mother has been the greatest influence on my life, morally. When I get right down to it, my mother and father are two people I can count on no matter what.
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I think people can tell when you're pandering to them, and they feel insulted. I think that one thing that is really nice about the work that I do is that I can just sort of make mistakes or try out different ideas or be inconsistent and be vulnerable.
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I'm twitchy. I think I've got ADD. I find it hard to sit down. I need to be constantly challenged; otherwise, I get very... well, I guess 'bored' is the word.
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For every reason it's not possible, there are hundreds of people who have faced the same circumstances and succeeded.
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In a gentle way, you can shake the world.
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There can be no literary equivalent to truth.
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Floyd Mayweather is in the sport to give great performances.
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Corruption is in society and in every strata of society.
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My valleys are higher than most people's peaks. I stay at that level.
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As an actor, you don't want to play a one-dimensional character.
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I may have had a lot of luck in my life, but I still need to find a challenge in the game.
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Make no mistake: the anti-war voices long for us to lose any war they cannot prevent.
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A runner's stride is not perfectly efficient.
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Every time you pass a law, it is a little bite out of freedom.
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I don't vocalise things that don't deserve attention.
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Prayer, like faith, obtains promises, enlarges their operation, and adds to the measure of their results.
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There might be very primitive life in our solar system - single-cell animals, that sort of thing. We may know the answer to that in five or ten years. There is very likely to be life in other solar systems, in planets around other stars. But we won't know about that for a long time.
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I don't know if nature is a direct literary influence on my writing, but it is certainly important to me. I take great joy in writing about it. It is something I have taken with me from my childhood; the body exposed to the threat of the physical world and at the same time being at home in it.
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I feel like, big city or small town, you can relate to following your parents' footsteps or putting your own dreams on the back burner or vices that we get caught up in - that whole cycle. That's not just a small-town thing. That's a life thing.
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The solar system should be viewed as our backyard, not as some sequence of destinations that we do one at a time.
