Neil deGrasse Tyson Quotes

I'm fascinated by the deaths of stars and the havoc they wreak on their environments.

Neil deGrasse Tyson

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• In the north we could not hope to keep the worst and poorest servant for a single day in the wretched discomfort in which our negro servants are forced habitually to live.

  

  Fanny Kemble
  • Live
  • Hope
  • Single

• I had some problems with fidelity in my life but pretty much got along with everybody.

  

  O. J. Simpson
  • Life
  • Pretty
  • Problems

• There are as many pillows of illusion as flakes in a snow-storm. We wake from one dream into another dream.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Dream
  • Storm
  • Snow

• I was thinking about it: so many of my stories are about my family life, not about being related to a lot of famous people. That's my grandma, that's my mama, my daddy, my aunt, my uncle, my stepdaddy. I'd probably tell them even if they weren't well known.

  

  Carlene Carter
  • People
  • Life
  • Thinking

• I think experience will teach you a combination of liberalism and conservatism. We have to be progressive and at the same time we have to retain values. We have to hold onto the past as we explore the future.

  

  Oliver Stone
  • Time
  • Experience
  • Future

• I'm involved in some action scenes, so they'll train me for that. I'll be working with my acting coach to prepare for my character.

  

  Aaliyah
  • Character
  • Action
  • Train

• My mother had an illegal abortion in 1960, which was the year the birth control pill came out, but I guess a little late for her, but - and I never knew. I found out when my father, after her death, got her FBI file.

  

  Katha Pollitt
  • Mother
  • Father
  • Death

• I just picked up a lot of classic-rock, melodic influence from my mom, music that she listened to, like 10,000 Maniacs, Led Zeppelin, REO Speedwagon and Yes.

  

  Yelawolf
  • Up
  • Music
  • She

• What Spotify pays me is not even enough to pay the musicians playing with me or the people working on the discs. It's not working. Something is going to have to give.

  

  Beck
  • People
  • Working
  • Playing

• Committing yourself to one person is sacred.

  

  Natalie Portman
  • Person
  • Yourself
  • Sacred

• Because I was always a fat child, I got fatter and fatter, and I ended up 18 stone and with a 40-inch waist.

  

  Rafe Spall
  • Up
  • Child
  • Fat

• Vegas is kind of crazy because there's so much going on. Everyone goes there to be entertained.

  

  Adam G. Sevani
  • Kind
  • Crazy
  • Vegas

• I am glad and thankful that my husband forced me to start reading for pleasure, as it took me years to listen to him and pick up a book!

  

  Rachel Tucker
  • Up
  • Book
  • Reading

• Originals are nonconformists, people who not only have new ideas but take action to champion them. They are people who stand out and speak up. Originals drive creativity and change in the world. They're the people you want to bet on.

  

  Adam Grant
  • People
  • Up
  • World

• As a candidate, Obama disdained the game of politics, a self-conscious contrast to all the tireless political athletes named Clinton.

  

  Nancy Gibbs
  • Game
  • Political
  • Politics

• Of course I prefer to be with someone, but with the right someone.

  

  Irina Shayk
  • Right
  • Someone
  • Course

• When I was younger, I used to love Tim Burton's 'Batman.' I was, like, 15, and even then, I was aware, 'This is really the Joker's film.' It's like, the Joker just takes over, and Batman, you really don't learn too much about him.

  

  Edgar Wright
  • Love
  • Learn
  • Batman

• They become the keepers of the mystery. They place themselves between the communicants of the religion, and the immediate experience. And then they dictate the terms on which you can have contact with this wonderful mystery. We don't dictate those terms.

  

  Larry Harvey
  • Experience
  • Religion
  • Place

• Over the city lies the sweet, rotting odor of yesterday's unrecollected sins.

  

  Hilary Mantel
  • Sweet
  • Lying
  • Sin

• To me, 'Underground Luxury' is kinda like a contrasting title, and the reason for that is because on this album I plan on introducing to people and reintroducing to people the side of me that they didn't see on the first album.

  

  Bobby Ray Simmons Jr.
  • People
  • Me
  • Reason

• Don't let nobody tell you that you can't do it. Love what you do until you don't love it anymore. Nothing's impossible.

  

  Fetty Wap
  • Love
  • For Her
  • Impossible

• A strong economy causes an increase in the demand for housing; the increased demand for housing drives real-estate prices and rentals through the roof. And then affordable housing becomes completely inaccessible.

  

  William Baldwin
  • Real
  • Strong
  • Economy

• I'm fascinated by the deaths of stars and the havoc they wreak on their environments.

  

  Neil deGrasse Tyson