Neil deGrasse Tyson Quotes
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People say, 'Are you going to be beating up one side or the other side?' It's everybody. It's the entire education establishment that is in power.
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When you work with somebody for a long period of time, you develop a shorthand with everything.
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I got into the race and people literally laughed. They thought I had no chance of winning.
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I can assure you we are all strong-willed, forceful personalities and the president encourages vigorous debate.
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My parents got me in trouble when I was in school because someone was getting bullied, and I didn't do anything about it. I just watched it happen and then came to the school, and I got cussed out for not helping and not being a part of it.
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I firmly believe that if your environment works for you and your family, it translates into a better life.
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Well first of all you have to make the character strong so that people can follow that. And then hopefully that character can integrate with the background of the social situation that people can recognize.
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Education, housing and hospitals are the most important things for society.
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Hats look exactly the same. There's no difference between The Writing Hat and The Acting Hat.
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Where there is flagrant abuse of corporate entities we must and will seek to tackle it.
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If the world's leaders are serious about improving collective well-being, we'd better get serious about prioritizing education in our nations and in our global discussion.
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All nuclear material in weapons programmes must be subject one day to binding international verification.
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My very first audition was on the lot of Paramount, and I was put on tape and it was very nerve-racking. I think it was about 15 pages.
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Gay life in 1970 was very bleak, compartmentalized. You didn't take it to work. You had to really lead a double life. There were bars, but you sort of snuck in and snuck out. Activism and gay pride simply didn't exist. I don't even think the word 'gay' was in existence.
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My thing is to execute the given play, execute the game plan to the best of my ability. If the option is for me to make a play when I have to, I will. Or I'll put myself in the best situation to do so.
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Literature is always trying to show other parts of this immense universe in which we live. It's endless. I'm sure there will be other writers who will discover new worlds.
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China was the first time I truly felt like an outsider. I fell in love with the process of trying to become intimate with the culture.
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As an adolescent I was convinced that France would have to go through gigantic trials, that the interest of life consisted in one day rendering her some signal service and that I would have the occasion to do so.
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Anytime that someone defies the status quo and defies oppression, it feels like a step in the right direction.
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When I was 13, I used to go to a jazz club. The owner of the club became my first business manager. She was very gutsy and had a lot of friends, one of whom happened to be the head of jazz at Columbia at the time. That's how it all began.
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For me it's hard, especially being a young African-American woman. My dad doesn't look like what you might call the 'safe' African-American male that America would accept, if you know what I mean.
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Death is nature’s way of saying, Your table is ready.
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The Pacific is the best toilet for satellites.
