Neil deGrasse Tyson Quotes
'Cosmos' wouldn't deserve its place in primetime evening network television were it not a landscape on which compelling stories were told. People, when they watch TV in the evening, want to see stories, and science simply tells the best stories.
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I'd work with soccer coordinators at Game Changing Films and have one or two combat training sessions with my stunt double, who's a wushu master.
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The historical novelist has to consider what has actually happened, while the SF writer is dealing in possibilities, but they are both in the business of imagining a world unlike our own and yet connected to it.
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For many years, the government of Canada has massively supported orchestras and the arts in general.
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I bite my nails. I've been chewing on them for years. As long as you don't chew through flesh it's all right.
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You can follow your favorite company or organization. You can also mix that in with your family and your social network and talk about all these interests in real time. That's the value, not the brand 'Twitter.' Twitter just provides the venue for it.
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When you're told to go brief a United States senator on a covert operation, you go do it. And you trust the information isn't going to leak.
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I don't find anything upsetting or gross or degrading about fighting with a mental illness: Bipolar or Schizophrenia.
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Anyone who is interested in the psychology of children will have observed that whereas one child will resist temptation or seduction, another will easily yield to it. There are children who will hardly oppose any resistance to the invitation of an unknown person to follow him; others who react in an opposite way in the same circumstances.
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Reverence is fatal to literature.
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The only way not to think about money is to have a great deal of it.
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My mom was Jewish, so some would call me Jewish.
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There is nothing, really, that I wouldn't write about, and I do write about a lot of grim things.
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Sometimes, it's just unfortunate you get injured in the game. But you can definitely take strides to prevent those things.
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We're trying to have the band create something beautiful that hopefully one day, 20 years from now, can be picked up by a kid and hopefully have the same effect that Neil Young had on me, or Led Zeppelin or Black Sabbath.
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Most practical jokes, I'll feel too bad for the other person so I'll stop just before the punchline.
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This Islam business kidnapped me.
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My fault, my failure, is not in the passions I have, but in my lack of control of them.
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In the '70s I was in exile; every time I went back I wondered if they'd take my passport away.
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I think that there should be options available, quite early on, that if someone is recognised as a disruptive child, for them to be trained vocationally. Maybe if those kids were given the option to learn how to contribute to society on a practical level they wouldn't get into trouble.
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I recognize there is a certain presumptuousness in this, a certain audacity, to this announcement. I know that I haven't spent a lot of time learning the ways of Washington, but I've been there long enough to know that the ways of Washington must change. People who love their country can change it.
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Sometimes in television, if there are storylines that are oft-told, people can be hypercritical of them.
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I remember being fascinated by the very nature of comedy from the age of 10; why is this funny, and that isn't?
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'Cosmos' wouldn't deserve its place in primetime evening network television were it not a landscape on which compelling stories were told. People, when they watch TV in the evening, want to see stories, and science simply tells the best stories.
