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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Age for me is just a number.
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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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The lurking suspicion that something could be simplified is the world's richest source of rewarding challenges.
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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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Nobody can write better jokes putting me down than me.
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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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A show is exhausting when it stinks. It's exhausting when you have to work overtime to make something work.
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I gave in to the idea of paying attention to what you like and letting it help you make better stuff.
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I like to do really realistic paintings, which requires so much focus; like, if I have to go to the bathroom or change a song, I can't; I'm so in it.
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These decrees of yours are no different from spiders' webs. They'll restrain anyone weak and insignificant who gets caught in them, but they'll be torn to shreds by people with power and wealth.
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That makes me want to grab people on the street and say, 'have you heard this?'
