Neil deGrasse Tyson Quotes

I'm often asked - and occasionally in an accusatory way - 'Are you atheist?' And it's like, 'You know, the only 'ist' I am is a scientist, all right?' I don't associate with movements. I'm not an 'ism.' I just - I think for myself.

Neil deGrasse Tyson

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• We decided we don't use the term 'fat' for me. We use the term 'juicy' for me. My wife's fine with it, but the rule is when I'm over double her weight, it's over.

  

  Ike Barinholtz
  • Wife
  • Rule
  • Fine

• The truth is, I'm proud of the life I've lived so far, and though I've made my share of mistakes, I have no regrets.

  

  Carly Fiorina
  • Life
  • Truth
  • Proud

• I think that a man should not live beyond the age when he begins to deteriorate, when the flame that lighted the brightest moment of his life has weakened.

  

  Fidel Castro
  • Life
  • Live
  • Age

• Feminism is sort of like God. Many people profess to believe in it, but no one seems to be able to define it to everyone's satisfaction.

  

  Aaron Allston
  • People
  • God
  • Believe

• Greek yogurt with some olive oil stirred in can transform many dishes.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Greek
  • Oil
  • Transform

• It doesn't matter what color, sex, religion, age, sexual orientation, etc., everyone should have the same freedoms and liberties.

  

  Lance Bass NSYNC
  • Age
  • Religion
  • Sex

• If I don't like someone and I start reading their stuff, it seems like my brain will just automatically start criticizing everything that's there. It's really hard to read a book without having all this outside information telling you what to think about it.

  

  Tao Lin
  • Book
  • Reading
  • Brain

• He who can not support himself, can not take his own decision.

  

  Gamal Abdel Nasser
  • Support
  • Decision
  • Take

• White people couldn't do black music back in the day because they weren't funky or bad enough. They weren't from the ghettoes, but hip-hop and R&B changed all of that because white kids want to be down with it. They wanted to learn it so they studied the culture. It's kind of a cool thing because we shouldn't be so separate.

  

  Narada Michael Walden
  • People
  • Music
  • Kids

• I do feel guilty. I do. Especially about my family, my children. I write about them, and I know that this will haunt them as well through their lives. Why did I do that to them?

  

  Karl Ove Knausgaard
  • Children
  • Family
  • Why

• I confess I am a romantic. I love romance, and I think it's really fun and delicious and some of my favorite films are love stories. I think that you just get a chance to fall in love with the characters so much and you get to explore their lives so deeply.

  

  Rachel McAdams
  • Fun
  • Chance
  • Romantic

• I have always been so sure - too sure... But now I am very humble and I say like a little child: 'I do not know...'

  

  Agatha Christie
  • Humble

• Sinclair Lewis may be ripe for a revival; his books raise several interesting issues of art and fashion.

  

  Jane Smiley
  • Art
  • May
  • Interesting

• The highest heels I do are six-inch heels - but mostly only dancers can wear them, since they are used to being on point in ballet shoes.

  

  Christian Louboutin
  • Shoes
  • Ballet

• The tax code can be used to eliminate the toll booths on the information superhighway.

  

  Jerry Weller

• The true artist helps the world by revealing mystic truths.

  

  Bruce Nauman
  • World
  • True

• At the end of 'Illusions,' readers should see the inevitable coming.

  

  Aprilynne Pike

• The only possible role that I can see for reconciliation would be to make modest changes in the major package to improve affordability, to deal with what share of Medicaid expansion the federal government pays, those kinds of issues, which is the traditional role for reconciliation in health care.

  

  Kent Conrad
  • Health

• Grief is at once a public and a private experience. One's inner, inexpressible disruption cannot be fully realized in one's public persona.

  

  Meghan O'Rourke
  • Experience
  • Grief

• The house was big enough for my brother and me to have firecracker wars at one end and leave Mom and Dad undisturbed at the other. When firecrackers weren't available, we attacked each other with pennies and marbles and clumps of Crisco, which made brilliant greasy asterisks when you missed and hit the wall.

  

  John Dickerson
  • House
  • Dad
  • Mom

• I have a house in the Connecticut countryside where you'll always find me, summer or winter.

  

  Candace Bushnell
  • House
  • Me
  • Summer

• You have two choices with Obama. You either believe that he is a man of Christ... or you think he's a liar. And I'm surprised by the number of atheist free thinkers that support Obama, and their argument is essentially, 'He's lying about being religious 'cause you have to do that to get elected.' It's a horrible reason to like somebody.

  

  Penn Jillette
  • Believe
  • Free
  • Support

• I don't want to die. I can't wrap my head around the concept of death because I'm totally atheist. There's nothing after life in my head, whether that's right or wrong.

  

  Alissa White-Gluz The Agonist
  • Death
  • Atheist
  • Concept

• I'm often asked - and occasionally in an accusatory way - 'Are you atheist?' And it's like, 'You know, the only 'ist' I am is a scientist, all right?' I don't associate with movements. I'm not an 'ism.' I just - I think for myself.

  

  Neil deGrasse Tyson
  • Atheist