Neil deGrasse Tyson Quotes
I like to believe that science is becoming mainstream. It should have never been something that sort of geeky people do and no one else thinks about. Whether or not, it will always be what geeky people do. It should, as a minimum, be what everybody thinks about because science is all around us.
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For me, it's always been very essential to work on projects that one can work on almost for their entire life.
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I had an ethnic preference, if you will, for the warm weather, coming from Chennai. So I finally said, 'Look, can I move to California?' because every time I come here, it would be in the 70s or 80s, and there would be beautiful blue sky and warm.
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Don't compete with me: firstly, I have more experience, and secondly, I have chosen the weapons.
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To do more of a concert thing, it takes so much preparation. You don't just show up and wing it. You're putting countless hours in the studio, not just to write and produce stuff, but to come up with edits and special things for the show.
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At any Maroon 5 concert, you'll see a room backstage marked 'yoga.'
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When girls bully, it's very subtle, and you can't define it. At least with boys, the bullying is usually explicit, and you can deal with it. It's psychological with girls.
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Your first duty as a writer is to write to please yourself. And you have no duty towards anyone else.
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I always wake up 10 minutes before I have to be anywhere.
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It's interesting: in the late '80s, there was this really random mix of new wave, industrial, and these early house records. And a lot of it was coming out of Chicago because of Wax Trax! So I always visited Wax Trax Records.
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My parents weren't extremely successful financially, but they were happy people. They gave me confidence.
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As long as you get your education and you stay focused, you can do anything.
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We have to keep in mind that it's not just about the numbers of people who died; it's also the manner which many of these victims met their deaths.
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I think it's our job to create a culture and an environment where a gay player knows he is safe and welcome. If and when that happens, believe me - that person will have the full support of the commissioner's office.
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Employees who can't trust their leader to be vulnerable are not going to be vulnerable and build trust with one another.
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I think that a good mountaineer is usually a sensible mountaineer.
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All eyes are on you when you're modeling and acting, and I just didn't want the attention when I wasn't working. But as I've gotten older, I've become more comfortable with my body and am taking more fashion risks.
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The public schools I attended were dominated by athletics and rarely inspiring intellectually, but I enjoyed a small circle of interesting friends despite my ineptitude at team sports and my preference for reading.
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I think very few people still understand the distinction between CEOs on Wall Street and the hedge-fund billionaires operating separately.
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Jews have deep respect for the Queen and the royal family. We say a prayer for them every Sabbath in synagogue. We recite a special blessing on seeing the Queen.
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Art is subject to arbitrary fashion.
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You only get one world premiere of your directorial debut.
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We're making this as entertainment. But God willing, if this show stays on and people see a woman in that office for a while, I think it will help people become more used to it. It's certainly about time that we had a few female presidents.
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...I was born lazy. I am no lazier now than I was forty years ago, but that is because I reached the limit forty years ago. You can't go beyond possibility.
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I like to believe that science is becoming mainstream. It should have never been something that sort of geeky people do and no one else thinks about. Whether or not, it will always be what geeky people do. It should, as a minimum, be what everybody thinks about because science is all around us.
