Neil deGrasse Tyson Quotes
I'm baffled all the time. We don't know what's driving 96% of the universe. Everybody you know and love and heard of and think about and see in the night sky through a telescope: four percent of the universe.
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The media's gotten lazy. They don't check anything out. You report what he reports.
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The battle in American politics used to be for the middle. Now, it's all about the building and the intensity of support on the far left and far right wings of both parties. And we have forgotten about the people here in the middle.
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Science is an international enterprise where discoveries in one part of the world are useful in other parts.
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Weirdly, often the more I write, the more ideas I have.
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I'm kind of obsessed with cool girls.
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I was a scapegoat. The media had to put responsibility on somebody, and I was chosen. They felt free to say that because someone was thin they were anorexic, which is ridiculous.
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The first decent building I did with my own practice was a chapel in Taiwan.
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The less you have, the more you enjoy.
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I get homesick.
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Animation is different from other parts. Its language is the language of caricature. Our most difficult job was to develop the cartoon's unnatural but seemingly natural anatomy for humans and animals.
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If you're losing, just be a man; be a man and lose as a man.
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All personal achievement starts in the mind of the individual. Your personal achievement starts in your mind. The first step is to know exactly what your problem, goal or desire is.
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I don't get far enough into a boring book to hate it.
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Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel.
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My movies are painfully personal, but I'm never trying to let you know how personal they are. It's my job to make it be personal, and also to disguise that so only I or the people who know me know how personal it is. 'Kill Bill' is a very personal movie.
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Decision making in a democracy depends above all on knowledge and not just the intel available to presidents and policymakers.
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As an actor, I think you should always disappear a little. I act in order to lose myself.
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Like funny men, skilled diners are apparently perceived to have an evolutionary advantage.
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The only reason I've shared my story is to take that tiny baby step of breaking down the stigma attached to depression.
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The fellow that has no money is poor. The fellow that has nothing but money is poorer still.
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My parents live out in the middle of nowhere, in the middle of this peach orchard. It's actually Peach County, one of the largest peach-growing counties in Georgia. It's very rural, and there is nothing much going on, so I guess that's had a big influence on everything as far as just not having much to do.
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When I have a chunk of time that I can really dedicate to music, I really want to get into it. I want to do some really hard stuff and push myself.
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To be in a position, at my age, where I am financially independent, I can help develop things, I can promote stuff that I believe in, I can say no a lot and spend time writing - that is a gift.
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I'm baffled all the time. We don't know what's driving 96% of the universe. Everybody you know and love and heard of and think about and see in the night sky through a telescope: four percent of the universe.
