Neil deGrasse Tyson Quotes

While I'm a big fan of science fiction, especially as rendered in expensive Hollywood blockbusters, it's the real universe that calls to me.

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• After I left college, I went to work at the Royal Opera House in London, which became a real catalyst for me because it made me realize that I was interested in cinema and in the way life is thrust at you. So I started making films.

  

  Sam Taylor-Wood
  • Life
  • Work
  • Real

• Politics and power is a realm of relative influence.

  

  Fareed Zakaria
  • Power
  • Politics
  • Influence

• We're at maybe 1% of what is possible. Despite the faster change, we're still moving slow relative to the opportunities we have. I think a lot of that is because of the negativity... Every story I read is Google vs someone else. That's boring. We should be focusing on building the things that don't exist.

  

  Larry Page
  • Change
  • Moving
  • Opportunities

• Movies are a big part of our Indian culture.

  

  Mahendra Singh Dhoni
  • Culture
  • Movies
  • Big

• Antonio Berardi is one of my good friends.

  

  Victoria Beckham Spice Girls
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  • Friends
  • Good Friends

• I'm lucky enough to do what I like for work - not everyone's that fortunate.

  

  Rafael Nadal
  • Work
  • Lucky
  • Everyone

• Playing music is a beautiful thing. But listening to music is just as great.

  

  Flea Jane's Addiction
  • Great
  • Music
  • Beautiful

• 'Ender's Game' has fabulous opportunities for spectacle, where appropriate, but there's also a tremendous central character. It's a balance.

  

  Gavin Hood
  • Character
  • Game
  • Balance

• Six years, I didn't act. Then I wrote myself a role - I won prizes all over the world.

  

  Xavier Dolan
  • World
  • Myself
  • Years

• I am capable of much more. I guess every artist feels that way. If you are satisfied, you begin to stagnate. I want to grow as an actress every day. There are so many things you can learn, and you can improve upon your skills and abilities every day.

  

  Madhuri Dixit
  • Artist
  • Learn
  • Skills

• In an unconstitutional partnership with the state, the church can impose the most irresistible, if covert, controls conceivable.

  

  Madalyn Murray O'Hair
  • Church
  • Most
  • Partnership

• Sometimes I post something unwittingly that connects with women. But I never think, 'OK, let's take a shirtless picture for the girls.'

  

  Maluma
  • Women
  • Think
  • Picture

• It's interesting, the things you learn when you're 21. I learned never to get tattoos in the middle of shooting a movie. Because if you're not Angelina Jolie or Megan Fox, they will fire you.

  

  Katee Sackhoff
  • Movie
  • Interesting
  • Fire

• If you're writing a scene for a character with whom you disagree in every way, you still need to show how that character is absolutely justified in his or her own mind, or the scene will come across as being about the author's views rather than about the character's.

  

  Tana French
  • Writing
  • Mind
  • Character

• Everybody likes a compliment.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Everybody
  • Compliment
  • Likes

• I love any excuse to come to New York - when it's not February.

  

  K. A. Applegate
  • Love
  • Come
  • Excuse

• In Westerns you were permitted to kiss your horse but never your girl.

  

  Gary Cooper
  • Girl
  • Horse
  • Kiss

• I stand on my public record as a defender of the human rights of Muslims, notably my work for Moazzam Begg and other British Muslims detained without trial in Guantanamo Bay.

  

  Hari Kunzru
  • Work
  • Stand
  • Human Rights

• I haven't really made up my mind concretely about having kids.

  

  Andrew Rannells
  • Up
  • Mind
  • Kids

• The word 'revolution' first brings to mind violent upheavals in the state, but ideas of revolution in science, and of political revolution, are almost coeval. The word once meant only a revolving, a circular return to an origin, as when we speak of revolutions per minute or the revolution of the planets about the sun.

  

  Ian Hacking
  • Mind
  • Political
  • Science

• With acknowledgement of residues, we can be more easily prepared to grant the unit of science, the overlapping of disciplines, and the total coherence of all facts.

  

  Kenneth L. Pike
  • Science

• The man with the real sense of humor is the man who can put himself in the spectator's place and laugh at his own misfortune.

  

  Bert Williams
  • Real

• Making ski racing fun and engaging for kids and families is an exciting opportunity and a real passion of mine.

  

  Lindsey Vonn
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  • Kids
  • Fun

• While I'm a big fan of science fiction, especially as rendered in expensive Hollywood blockbusters, it's the real universe that calls to me.

  

  Neil deGrasse Tyson
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  • Science
  • Universe