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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One of these days in your travels, a guy is going to come up to you and show you a nice brand-new deck of cards on which the seal is not yet broken, and this guy is going to offer to bet you that he can make the Jack of Spades jump out of the deck and squirt cider in your ear. But, son, do not bet this man, for as sure as you are standing there, you are going to end up with an earful of cider.
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The problem with being in the public eye for a long time is there are 20 years worth of looks to come back and haunt you!
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The trouble with being educated is that it takes a long time; it uses up the better part of your life and when you are finished what you know is that you would have benefited more by going into banking.
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I spent so many years shuffled around. I'm used to it and can deal with it.
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As a practical matter, it is hard to think of any society in human history in which a majority population has said that as a consequence of historic wrongs, we are now going to take a big chunk of the nation's resources over a long period of time to make that right.
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The Pacific is the best toilet for satellites.
