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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Although my art work was heavily informed by my design work on a formal and visual level, as regards meaning and content the two practices parted ways.
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I think because people can't understand our style, they think it's a joke. Our music isn't intellectual - we make music for the common man.
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I'm a dragon.
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The reason most people don't express their individuality and actually deny it, is not fear of what prime ministers think of us or the head of the federal reserve, It's what their families and their friends down at the bar are going to think of them.
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Influence is best measured not only by military hardware and GDP, but also by other people's perceptions that we, the United States, are using our power legitimately. That belief - that we are acting in the interests of the global commons and in accordance with the rule of law - is what the military would call a 'force multiplier.'
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People know I was the last true champion.
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That makes me want to grab people on the street and say, 'have you heard this?'
