Neil deGrasse Tyson Quotes

One of my great laments is that education today seems to have... be less about passion and more about process, more about tactic or technique.

Neil deGrasse Tyson

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• I was born in Dallas, Texas, but I was raised in south Florida. 'Ice Ice Baby' is about that area.

  

  Vanilla Ice
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• Never fear to deliberately walk through dark places, for that is how you reach the light on the other side.

  

  Vernon Howard
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  • Light
  • Dark

• When you're bullied in high school, even if it's the smallest amount, or you're actually tortured, I feel like everybody carries that with them. They always think of that one person who treated them badly in high school.

  

  Odette Annable
  • School
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• There's not a liberal America and a conservative America - there's the United States of America.

  

  Barack Obama
  • America
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• I would definitely like to start a family because it's the most important thing in the world and what you should take care of, along with your friends and the people you love.

  

  Irina Shayk
  • World
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• Whether it's through introduction of the right gut bacteria or direct modification of the genes of cows and pigs, I think we're going to have to introduce something like this into our livestock - a way to consume the methane rather than releasing it.

  

  Ramez Naam
  • Think
  • Way
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• Leaders are people who do the right thing; managers are people who do things right.

  

  Warren Bennis
  • People
  • Do The Right Thing

• The balance of private good and general welfare is at the bottom of civilized morals; but the morals of the Heroic Age are founded on individuality, and on nothing else.

  

  Lascelles Abercrombie
  • Good
  • Age
  • Balance

• There are millions of people who consume music illegally every month. Just getting them into a legal service will make the music industry way bigger than it's ever been before.

  

  Daniel Ek
  • People
  • Music
  • Service

• Movies are a complicated collision of literature, theatre, music and all the visual arts.

  

  Yahoo Serious
  • Music
  • Literature
  • Theatre

• In Shakespeare, unique individuals repudiate the stereotypes demanded by the structure of the play: Shylock commands our sympathy, Barnardine refuses to be hanged. Individuals trump the category.

  

  Iain McGilchrist
  • Play
  • Unique
  • Trump

• The vegetable life does not content itself with casting from the flower or the tree a single seed, but it fills the air and earth with a prodigality of seeds, that, if thousands perish, thousands may plant themselves, that hundreds may come up, that tens may live to maturity; that, at least one may replace the parent.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Life
  • Up
  • Live

• I'm not the girl next door.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • Girl
  • Door
  • Girl Next Door

• Some of the best songs that artists perform year after year are ones they hated.

  

  Kara DioGuardi
  • Best
  • Year
  • Artists

• Weight used to be an issue. I was always fat as a child. And everyone used to tell me, 'You've got such a pretty face; why don't you lose some weight?' Over the years I've realised that my body is a certain type, and I have learned to accept it.

  

  Vidya Balan
  • Why
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• I would lie in bed, and I was nine years old, and say to myself: 'I want to be the richest man in the world.' I've come a long way from there.

  

  Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
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• No one can be saved - in virtue of what he can do. Everyone can be saved - in virtue of what God can do.

  

  Karl Barth
  • God
  • Virtue
  • Everyone

• I try to stay consciously away from the roles of the girl who throws herself at the leading man, because I've done it a lot and I want to move on. I ticked that box.

  

  Natalie Dormer
  • Done
  • Want
  • Man

• If your voices are not heard, you can be sure that many others will be - in particular those who are paid to present a point of view, and often do it most effectively.

  

  Kathleen Sebelius
  • Present

• As far as my solo record, I don't want a gold record or anything, I'm happy to be small and to have the people appreciate the music who really like me for being me.

  

  John Frusciante
  • People
  • Music
  • Happy

• America Online, of course, is a master of the hard sell, from stuffing mailboxes with free trial offers to forcing subscribers to click through ads before they can get their e-mail.

  

  Alex Berenson
  • America
  • Free

• Obviously I've had great experiences with people I've worked with on films - I've married half of them! I should come with a warning sign that says, 'Don't worry, I'm not going to try to marry you. I'm done.'

  

  Kate Beckinsale
  • People
  • Great
  • Done

• I have a great race team, great grew members, awesome health care team, endocrinologist, nutritionist, and of course family and friends. It truly is a team effort, both when you are dealing with diabetes in regular life and also on the racetrack.

  

  Charlie Kimball
  • Life
  • Great
  • Family

• One of my great laments is that education today seems to have... be less about passion and more about process, more about tactic or technique.

  

  Neil deGrasse Tyson
  • Great
  • Today
  • Education