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 was a go-go dancer at the Dom on East 10th Street in NYC. This was a glittering ballroom over Stanley's Bar. 1965.
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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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Self-examination with a close-up mirror in an antiseptic environment is what Nine Inch Nails is based on.
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I like to be supportive and a role model.
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I deal with guys in their 20s and early 30s who are presidents of companies, who are movie directors.
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Apollo 11 was the movie premiere of moon landings, with Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin. Neil was a bit of a mystic, but also a taciturn guy from what I can tell. He really saw the moon as looking like the American high desert. He wasn't someone who dealt in metaphors.
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Politics and sports are the same thing in some ways. I like sports; I don't like the sports aspect of politics. The conventions are basically the playoffs, and the election's the Super Bowl. To me, it doesn't feel important.
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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.
