Neil deGrasse Tyson Quotes
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I've had a pretty charmed life, so there's nothing that I need to take too seriously right now.
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Anytime you have a tight race and you lose, it's not pleasant.
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Collecting more taxes than is absolutely necessary is legalized robbery.
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It's not that I don't want a fast car. I like the speed. I'm just not the type of person who finds a sports car a sexy car.
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I'm thrilled that country music fans like my stuff, but so do a lot of people outside of country music, people who just love music. My goal is more to reach music lovers than to appeal to a genre. I love country music, and I'm proud to represent it, but I don't obsess over it as a category.
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God doesn't know things. He is things.
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Take, for example, the African jungle, the home of the cheetah. On whom does the cheetah prey? The old, the sick, the wounded, the weak, the very young, but never the strong. Lesson: If you would not be prey, you had better be strong.
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We're here for a little, little bit of time, and I just wanna make the most out of it.
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I know my fans want me on the screen. But I think hero-worship should not be allowed to corrupt the plot and narrative of a film.
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The motivation is important for me to act it, but I don't necessarily want the audience to know my motivation.
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I am a just man.
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I had to start being aware of what I ate, what I'm planning to eat and take my twice-daily medication accordingly. That's not so difficult now, but when you're 10 years old, it's tough, let me tell you.
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I used to play all the time. I would play football when it was light and read when it was dark.
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My career is playing the guys who go, 'Boo.' That's what I do.
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We call ourselves a dog's 'master' - but who ever dared to call himself the 'master' of a cat? We own a dog - he is with us as a slave and inferior because we wish him to be. But we entertain a cat - he adorns our hearth as a guest, fellow-lodger, and equal because he wishes to be there.
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I can laugh and cry at the drop of a freakin' hat - all at the same time.
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My family is from Nigeria, and my full name is Uzoamaka, which means 'The road is good.'
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Letting the facts speak for themselves is an immoral principle when we all know that facts and figures can be selected to prove anything.
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I think if you're everyone's cup of tea, that probably means you're a little bit boring, or you're not pushing yourself. Creativity happens where it's dangerous and scary: where you're not comfortable.
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We Americans are mildly interested, of course, in reading about the discovery of radium by Madame Curie, but what we really yearn to know is the name of the uncommemorated French female who first mixed a sauce bearnaise.
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When the scheme for the construction of a railroad from Baltimore to the waters of the Ohio River first began to take form, the United States had barely emerged from the Revolutionary period.
John Moody -
I love that you work out relationships with people as you're filming just to get something real to play on screen.
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For me, the beginning of sharing my faith with people began by throwing out Christianity and embracing Christian spirituality, a nonpolitical mysterious system that can be experienced but not explained.
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That makes me want to grab people on the street and say, 'have you heard this?'
