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.

  

  Yamamoto Tsunetomo
  • Life
  • Live
  • True

• You have to find out how to become the character.

  

  Kara Hayward
  • Character
  • You
  • Find

• Self-preservation is the first law of nature.

  

  Samuel Butler
  • Nature
  • Law
  • First

• From age 16, I lived and breathed wine. I read every magazine and book about wine.

  

  Gary Vaynerchuk
  • Book
  • Age
  • Wine

• No, but I'm really lucky, because I'm not the superhero.

  

  Fisher Stevens
  • Lucky
  • Really
  • Superhero

• It's not that I'm opposed to doing a big-budget action movie. But it has to be the right project.

  

  Zac Efron
  • Movie
  • Action
  • Doing

• 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.

  

  Oksana Baiul
  • Work
  • Mind
  • Practice

• There's no biography so interesting as the one in which the biographer is present.

  

  Orson Welles
  • Interesting
  • Present
  • Which

• There is kind of an underground conservative movement in Hollywood, really.

  

  Caitlyn Jenner
  • Kind
  • Movement
  • Conservative

• I love thinking about the film, the project and committing myself as much as possible.

  

  Vin Diesel
  • Thinking
  • Project
  • Committing

• The speed of change makes you wonder what will become of architecture.

  

  Tadao Ando
  • Change
  • Wonder
  • Architecture

• 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.

  

  Carli Lloyd
  • Good
  • Want
  • Best

• Perhaps all the dragons of our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us once beautiful and brave.

  

  Rainer Maria Rilke
  • Beautiful
  • Waiting
  • Brave

• Even when they have nothing, the Irish emit a kind of happiness, a joy.

  

  Fiona Shaw
  • Kind
  • Joy
  • Happiness

• 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?

  

  Paige Craig
  • People
  • Good
  • Seen

• 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.

  

  Barry Ritholtz
  • Up
  • Want
  • Most

• On the battlefield, the military pledges to leave no soldier behind. As a nation, let it be our pledge that when they return home, we leave no veteran behind.

  

  Dan Lipinski
  • Home
  • Military
  • Soldier

• I don't want to give any advice to a 19-year-old, because I want a 19-year-old to make mistakes and learn from them. Make mistakes, make mistakes, make mistakes. Just make sure they're your mistakes.

  

  Fiona Apple
  • Learn
  • Advice
  • Mistakes

• It's bad taste to be wise all the time, like being at a perpetual funeral.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • Time
  • Bad
  • Wise

• You know, sometimes you're jealous of other people and their achievements, and you wanna be that person, but I've come to realize that each individual on this planet has his own path.

  

  Armin van Buuren
  • People
  • Path

• How do I define who Usher is? I'm still doing it - every day, every new opportunity, every stage, every interview, every other thing that I've done, every time that I've invested in anything that is all the definition of who I am.

  

  Usher
  • Time
  • Done
  • Opportunity

• 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.

  

  Neil deGrasse Tyson
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