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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Rarely do we stop and consider whether the most prestigious of institutions is always in our best interest.
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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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I had a lovely childhood. For family holidays, we went as far as the car could take us - we would drive to Florida, even though it would take three days. I didn't know we didn't have a lot of money because there was always food on the table. I didn't have a lot of stuff, but I did figure skating for a long time, and I always had my skates.
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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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I've learned that universal acceptance and appreciation is just an unrealistic goal.
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There's a lot out there for me to learn that isn't in college, so I think it's fine for me if I don't go yet.
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Newspapers. . . give us the bald, sordid, disgusting facts of life. They chronicle, with degrading avidity, the sins of the second-rate, and with the conscientiousness of the illiterate give us accurate and prosaic details. . .
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Part of me misses the days when we have four channels in England and we were all talking about everything all the time.
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In my own research when I'm working with equations, I never feel like I really understand what I'm doing if I'm solely relying on the mathematics for my understanding. I need to have a visual picture in my mind. I'm constantly translating from the math to some intuitive mind's-eye picture.
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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.
