Neil deGrasse Tyson Quotes
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The decathlon includes ten separate events and they all matter. You can't work on just one of them.
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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.
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I've had Irish skin from the time I was a young girl.
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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.
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It's not that I'm opposed to doing a big-budget action movie. But it has to be the right project.
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Anger is the enemy of non-violence and pride is a monster that swallows it up.
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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.
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It's important for me to think I'm mixed-race.
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I want to do whatever I can to survive.
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I'm a private person. I'm shy about people knowing things.
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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.
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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.
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I have heard of many tragic cases of walking, talking, normal children who wound up with profound mental disorders after vaccines.
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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.
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I think it's nice for women to try to be sexy for their man.
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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.
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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.
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I took on cancer like I take on everything - like a mission and a job to accomplish.
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Different astronauts sleep in different ways.
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It is an extreme perversion of capitalism if you can trade in something before you have even paid for it.
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I subscribe to the online Urban Dictionary's definition of nerd: 'one whose IQ exceeds his weight'. I'm also keen on the same Urban Dictionary's definition of geek: 'the person you pick on in high school and wind up working for as an adult'. I happily proclaim myself a book nerd/reading geek and proud of it.
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I always tend to think of all of my shows as possibly my last show. I'm like a junior Springsteen, without the underbite.
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This filthy twentieth century. I hate its guts.
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I get enormous satisfaction from knowing I'm doing something for society.
