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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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'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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Rock will never be dead for me. Do I like a lot of what I hear on rock music radio? No, not for the most part. I'm not a fan of the regurgitated Pearl Jam and Nickelback crap that's the biggest thing in the Midwest. There isn't that big of a market for rock anymore. Every once in a while something happens and you like it.
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My wife attends a Presbyterian church.
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With stand-up, I can have an idea, go down the street to a comedy club and work on it, flesh it out, book a venue, people will come, then film it. I do all that myself; I never have to answer to anybody.
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When you go out for the night with your buddies, it feels like you're in a band, and I think everybody can relate to that.
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Most of the time when people work with an artist, they don't give them what they need for the future, they give them what their last album sounded like. So it's like, 'Oh, One Republic needs a song, why don't we send them 10 that sound like 'Apologize?'
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People always think the coach is the strongest person at a club, the boss, but in truth, he's the weakest link. We're there, vulnerable, undermined by those who don't play, by the media, by the fans. They all have the same objective: to undermine the manager.
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Every man is a creative cause of what happens, a primum mobile with an original movement.
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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.
