Neil deGrasse Tyson Quotes

I get enormous satisfaction from knowing I'm doing something for society.

Neil deGrasse Tyson

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• The decathlon includes ten separate events and they all matter. You can't work on just one of them.

  

  Dan O'Brien
  • Work
  • You
  • Events

• Everyone will experience the consequences of his own acts. If his act are right, he'll get good consequences; if they're not, he'll suffer for it.

  

  Harry Browne
  • Good
  • Experience
  • Act

• I've had Irish skin from the time I was a young girl.

  

  Lara Flynn Boyle
  • Time
  • Girl
  • Irish

• I say the law should be blind to race, gender and sexual orientation, just as it claims to be blind to wealth and power. There should be no specially protected groups of any kind, except for children, the severely disabled and the elderly, whose physical frailty demands society's care.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Children
  • Power
  • Society

• It's not that I'm opposed to doing a big-budget action movie. But it has to be the right project.

  

  Zac Efron
  • Movie
  • Action
  • Doing

• Anger is the enemy of non-violence and pride is a monster that swallows it up.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Up
  • Violence
  • Enemy

• Do I favor the death penalty? Theoretically, I do, but when you realize that there's a 4 percent error rate, you end up putting guilty people to death.

  

  Gary Johnson
  • People
  • Up
  • Death

• It's important for me to think I'm mixed-race.

  

  Dan O'Brien
  • Important
  • Think
  • Me

• Try to find someone with a sense of humor. That's an important thing to have because when you get into an argument, one of the best ways to diffuse it is to be funny. You don't want to hide away from a point, because some points are serious, but you'd rather have a discussion that was a discussion, rather than an argument.

  

  Ed Sheeran
  • Important
  • Funny
  • Best

• I want to do whatever I can to survive.

  

  Sam Simon
  • Want
  • I Can
  • Survive

• I'm a private person. I'm shy about people knowing things.

  

  Farrah Fawcett
  • People
  • Knowing
  • Shy

• Back in the '70s - I remember the '70s: we were told there was global cooling. And everyone was told global cooling was a really big problem. And then that faded.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • Remember
  • Problem
  • Back

• I think that when I was child, acting was mostly just a hobby for me. It was something that my parents encouraged me to think of the way that my brothers thought of their cross-country classes, or my little sister to dance classes and art classes, and it was something like that for me.

  

  Mara Wilson
  • Country
  • Art
  • Parents

• I have heard of many tragic cases of walking, talking, normal children who wound up with profound mental disorders after vaccines.

  

  Rand Paul
  • Up
  • Children
  • Walking

• The Web is the new way to figure out who's hot and what's not. You can't let TV dictate because it's so polished, so political. It is what they want you to know. The Internet is the raw.

  

  Wale
  • Want
  • Political
  • Internet

• I think it's nice for women to try to be sexy for their man.

  

  Salma Hayek
  • Women
  • Man
  • Nice

• Fitness has always been one of the top priorities in my life because that's the way I grew up, with soccer being the sport of choice.

  

  Ziggy Marley
  • Life
  • Up
  • My Life

• People may think I'm crazy, but one of the ways I like to wind down my Friday is to get some of our household chores done, whether it's cleaning or doing a big food shop, so the house is all nice for the weekend.

  

  Victoria Pendleton
  • People
  • Done
  • May

• I don't think Flo Rida gets on just any song. If you look at the songs he has done - even The Saturdays one - was a hit. If it's not good enough, then he won't do it.

  

  Olly Murs
  • Good
  • Done
  • Song

• I think I sing with more emotion but with less technical perfection. I prefer to sing with my natural voice and use my instinct - it's easier for me to give emotion.

  

  Amaury Vassili
  • Voice
  • Emotion
  • Sing

• For blacks in our society, victimization may be a true issue. But it isn't a true issue for women. Neither men nor women are victimized. The true issue, that I try to point out, is that both sexes suffer restricted roles.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • Men
  • Women
  • May

• If we are peaceful, if we are happy, we can smile, and everyone in our family, our entire society, will benefit from our peace.

  

  Thich Nhat Hanh
  • Happy
  • Smile
  • Family

• If you wish a thing done, get some one to do it for you; but if you wish it done well, do it yourself.

  

  John Jacob Astor
  • Do It

• I get enormous satisfaction from knowing I'm doing something for society.

  

  Neil deGrasse Tyson
  • Society