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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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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The day we run out of petrol is the day Iran will be free.
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Good new songs are the backbone of the music industry. There isn't an artist out there who could survive without hit songs.
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I love playing the bad girl.
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I identified with both women. But Emma had a stronger message for the women I want to speak to now- women who work. I wanted to tell them that choosing to work doesn't make them oddballs and isn't antisocial.
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Don't get so involved in the duties of your life and your children that you forget the pleasure. Remember why you had children.
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If you enjoy living, it is not difficult to keep the sense of wonder.
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That makes me want to grab people on the street and say, 'have you heard this?'
