Neil deGrasse Tyson Quotes
We have bred multiple generations of people who have not experienced knowing where you are the moment a news story broke, with that news story being great and grand and something that elevates society instead of diminishes it.
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There is surely nothing other than the single purpose of the present moment. A man's whole life is a succession of moment after moment. If one fully understands the present moment, there will be nothing else to do, and nothing else to pursue. Live being true to the single purpose of the moment.
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You have to find out how to become the character.
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The earth laughs in flowers.
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Self-preservation is the first law of nature.
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From age 16, I lived and breathed wine. I read every magazine and book about wine.
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No, but I'm really lucky, because I'm not the superhero.
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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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My weaknesses are my jumps. The reason is that although I land them in practice, when I actually compete or perform, I should let my body go and stabilize my mind better. Also, I need to work on not letting negative thoughts and emotions get to me on the ice.
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There's no biography so interesting as the one in which the biographer is present.
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There is kind of an underground conservative movement in Hollywood, really.
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We make a ladder for ourselves of our vices, if we trample those same vices underfoot.
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I love thinking about the film, the project and committing myself as much as possible.
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The speed of change makes you wonder what will become of architecture.
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I don't want to be known for someone that's good-looking. I want to be known as someone who is one of the best midfielders. That's my thing.
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Perhaps all the dragons of our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us once beautiful and brave.
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Even when they have nothing, the Irish emit a kind of happiness, a joy.
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If people make a lot of introductions, should they get recognized for it? I've never seen a score showing who's a good connector. That'd be useful, right?
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TV producers want ratings and are willing to do nearly anything to get them. They gin up artificial conflicts and create an urgency for even the most minor of economic data points.
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KIPP schools would be just a shining example of schools where students aren't just given homework and taught imaginative ways, but they're really brought into a culture of education.
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The great forces of history were real, after a fashion. But when you examined them closely, those great forces always came down to the dreams and hungers and judgments of individuals. The choices they made were real. They mattered.
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Telling the world is the most difficult experience of my life, but it is very close to having to live through the experience that occasion this meeting.
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There is a serene and settled majesty to woodland scenery that enters into the soul and delights and elevates it, and fills it with noble inclinations.
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We have bred multiple generations of people who have not experienced knowing where you are the moment a news story broke, with that news story being great and grand and something that elevates society instead of diminishes it.
