Neil deGrasse Tyson Quotes
Although I'm not actually embarrassed by this, I tend not to read books that have awesome movies made from them, regardless of how well or badly the movie represented the actual written story.
Quotes to Explore
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I was playing sports all the time, and my parents, Anne and John, encouraged me to play in grade school and high school.
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I am in love with myself, with my friends, with my family, with kids, with life and my movies.
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I didn't expect to have music as my main thing. I always thought I was going to be a lawyer. When I graduated, I was doing really well with my music in Malaysia. I had stable income, and I had really good momentum in the music industry, so I had to make a decision whether to stop that and continue being a lawyer.
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On many different singles, I was able to marry my music with rappers who understood the natural bond between us.
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Life is so fast these days, and we're exposed to so much information. Television makes us a witness to such misery.
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The questions don't do the damage. Only the answers do.
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Eighty per cent of my output is 'Mallory clowns on the Western canon,' and I'm happy to be that person.
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From Syria even to Rome I fight with wild beasts, by land and sea, by night and by day, being bound amidst ten leopards, even a company of soldiers, who only grow worse when they are kindly treated.
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It's not like I've ever been the popular pretty girl at school or anything. I was always such a weirdo.
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Let each person do his or her part. If one citizen is unwilling to participate, all of us are going to suffer. For the American idea, though it is shared by all of us, is realized in each one of us.
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A dinosaur out of context is like a character without a story. Worse than that, the character suffers from amnesia.
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I can speak a little bit of Hindi but understand every word.
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Prestige is the shadow of money and power.
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I never really got paid for 'Tell It Like Is,' but I look back at it and say God knew what he was doing; he probably figured that if I had got money back in them days, I wouldn't be here now. That's okay. I'm here. And I'm still singing the song.
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I'm not somebody who gets teared up or anything, but I still look up at the stars, and it gives me hope, and it gives me energy. I think one of the things that we have to think about it is, we are all a part of this universe.
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I'm worried a lot of our work day as artists is a producer's creation - not an artist's creation.
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The older you get, the better you have to look, the higher you have to kick, the harder you have to work.
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Any film I do needs to excite me at a script level.
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How can a child adhere to school and the notion of secularism when they see their mother rejected from a school outing, stigmatized, left on the sidelines, just because she has a scarf on her head?
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Zero gravity is such an alien environment - completely different from everything we've grown up with every single day of our lives. And it's incomprehensible how much better it was than I anticipated it would be.
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Have I seen The Commitments? I was obsessed with that movie. I just watched it again about two weeks ago.
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I'm open to anything. I think everyone should enjoy every moment that they experience.
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McCabe's Law: Nobody has to do anything.
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Although I'm not actually embarrassed by this, I tend not to read books that have awesome movies made from them, regardless of how well or badly the movie represented the actual written story.
