Neil deGrasse Tyson Quotes

As an educator, I try to get people to be fundamentally curious and to question ideas that they might have or that are shared by others. In that state of mind, they have earned a kind of inoculation against the fuzzy thinking of these weird ideas floating around out there.

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• 'Heroes' really changed the game for me in a way that nothing before it had.

  

  Zachary Quinto
  • Game
  • Way
  • Me

• Maybe I fear things going wrong so much that I pre-empt them by not getting excited about them when they appear to be. going well.

  

  Jack Dee
  • Fear
  • Excited
  • Maybe

• I don't do grey. I like my colour, my style.

  

  Imelda May
  • Style
  • Colour
  • Grey

• Come hell or high water, adopted or my own. I am going to have, I must have some kids.

  

  Ida Lupino
  • Kids
  • Water
  • Hell

• Every artist says that he/she wants to do something challenging, and I'm not any different. If someone approaches me with a serious role, I'll be more than happy.

  

  Kapil Sharma
  • Happy
  • Artist
  • Serious

• Spending money is much more difficult than making money.

  

  Jack Ma
  • Money
  • More
  • Making Money

• Capitalism has forced everyone to overoptimize in order to compete.

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  • Order
  • Everyone
  • Capitalism

• I think that we, as a civilization, need to sit down and figure out how to solve political problems over a table, not over a battlefield.

  

  Gary Sherman
  • Think
  • Political
  • Problems

• I think there's no higher calling in terms of a career than public service, which is a chance to make a difference in people's lives and improve the world.

  

  Jack Lew
  • People
  • World
  • Career

• I think happiness is a combination of pleasure, engagement and meaningfulness.

  

  Ian K. Smith
  • Think
  • Happiness
  • Pleasure

• Perfect is very boring, and if you happen to have a different look, that's a celebration of human nature, I think. If we were all symmetrical and perfect, life would be very dull.

  

  Natalie Dormer
  • Life
  • Different
  • Nature

• The thing you fear most has no power. Your fear of it is what has the power. Facing the truth really will set you free.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • Power
  • Truth
  • Free

• Corporations cannot commit treason, or be outlawed or excommunicated, for they have no souls.

  

  Harold Coffin
  • Souls
  • Corporations
  • Treason

• I don't want to just go out and do song to song to song. I like to create things before the song actually kicks in, little things you do to excite the crowd.

  

  R. Kelly
  • Want
  • Song
  • Little Things

• Even before I went to the UN, I often would want to say something in a meeting - only woman at the table - and I'd think, 'OK well, I don't think I'll say that. It may sound stupid.' And then some man says it, and everybody thinks it's completely brilliant, and you are so mad at yourself for not saying something.

  

  Madeleine Albright
  • May
  • Man
  • Woman

• Let's have some new cliches.

  

  Samuel Goldwyn
  • Funny
  • New
  • Some

• In every generation, there are quite firm rules on how to behave when you are crazy.

  

  Ian Hacking
  • Crazy
  • Rules
  • Generation

• Adele ultimately did well in such a large way because she affects everybody, and the way that she writes seems to be popular music, not because of her skin color but because she writes great music, and it's popular in that way.

  

  Babyface
  • Great
  • Music
  • She

• North Korea has certainly, in the past, used detainees to initiate diplomatic exchanges with the United States.

  

  Elise Hu
  • United States
  • Exchanges
  • Detainees

• I wrote in the book very specifically what I wanted to write about, period, and left it at.

  

  Kate Adie
  • Book
  • Period
  • Write

• You have to have the capacity and the ability to take what people did, and how they did it, and forgive them and move on.

  

  John Lewis
  • Ability
  • Capacity
  • Move On

• I read in the paper that I'd slashed my wrists. But I didn't.

  

  Gail Porter
  • Read
  • Paper

• When you have a family, or even when you're just seeing a girl, it's difficult to be skint.

  

  Bill Nighy
  • Family
  • Girl

• As an educator, I try to get people to be fundamentally curious and to question ideas that they might have or that are shared by others. In that state of mind, they have earned a kind of inoculation against the fuzzy thinking of these weird ideas floating around out there.

  

  Neil deGrasse Tyson
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Mind