Neil deGrasse Tyson Quotes
Just think for how long humanity was controlled by mystical, magical thinking - the diseases and suffering that led to. We managed to survive, but just barely. It wasn't pretty.
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The sole ultimate factor in human decisions is physical force. This we must learn, however repugnant the idea may seem, if we are to protect ourselves and our institutions. Reliance on anything else is fallacious and ruinous.
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At 21 years old, I could produce 400 people like that.
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A writer is a human being. He has to live with a sense of honor.
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What you want to do is you want to own as little sort of hard infrastructure as possible, and your real value is your name and how you build that up.
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We all look at ourselves in the mirror and think, 'Am I good?'
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I don't choose to make movies as small as the movies I've made. The combined budget of my two films is far under $5 million, but it's just by necessity that it ends up being that way.
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In China, we don't know about the swimming pool game, but we know about Marco Polo.
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In theater, there's a lot of work to do to build the characters. It's a great experience.
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People want to help me. They want the best for me. I always say thank you to people when they try that. I never get mad.
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I can say with a level of confidence that Islam is not a religion of war, only because the majority of Muslims don't subscribe to that perspective, not because there's something inherent in the text that tells me it's a religion of peace.
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As anyone who has covered the company for any length of time knows, Yahoo's record on major decision-making has been akin to a hippie commune - a lot of wrangling internally in a culture where everyone seems to have a voice and a reticence to push the button to launch.
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I think that, a lot of times in Hollywood pictures, the reality, the messy reality of women's lives - it's avoided, because I think people are just afraid of it. There's a standard that women are set to, to try to keep everybody comfortable.
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I'm excellent at losing weight, but I've never been excellent at maintenance. I have some better days than others in terms of being hypervigilant, but with maintenance you don't know if you've been good at it until you're done.
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I like to do Pilates.
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I've been at it since 1967, and I still love it. There is nothing quite like making people laugh.
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Have the courage to say no. Have the courage to face the truth. Do the right thing because it is right. These are the magic keys to living your life with integrity.
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Sometimes it's nice just being in your own room and having a quiet night and relaxing and getting ready for the game.
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I'm quite intuitive about what I pick. Often it's to do with what I've just done and how I'm feeling.
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I love to deal with doctrines and events. The contests of men about men I greatly dislike.
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If you expect the worst, you'll never be disappointed.
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Know, sense, like charity, begins at home.
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As long as I have ambition, maybe I can achieve something for my country.
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Just think for how long humanity was controlled by mystical, magical thinking - the diseases and suffering that led to. We managed to survive, but just barely. It wasn't pretty.
