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.

Neil deGrasse Tyson

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I wanted to be a Priest at one point. I was pretty religious. I was an altar boy, and I was good at it. Then, I started meeting girls and I'm like 'You know, maybe I shouldn't be a Priest.'

Jimmy Fallon

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'You Are So Beautiful,' I think, is probably the, you know, the strongest tune I ever did in just the simplicity in it.

Joe Cocker

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There are so many societies, so many churches, so many -isms, that it is almost impossible for an independent man to succeed in a political career.

Robert Green Ingersoll

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There are people who can start having very powerful experiences without taking psychedelics. It can happen against their will. This is a universal phenomenon.

Stanislav Grof

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Without the communist oppression, I am absolutely sure I would now be a local stupid professor of philosophy in Ljubljana.

Slavoj Zizek

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I picked up the guitar at 11, but even before then, I was writing songs on the organ.

Tracy Chapman

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Dances have a second and third life. You feel they are never ready. They always have a chance for another life.

Mikhail Baryshnikov

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It's not that, living in Pakistan, I feel an enormous constraint on how I can write and what I can say; rather, I recognize that one has to navigate these things... Am I aware of things that one could say that would be risky or that could be dangerous? Certainly I'm aware of those things.

Mohsin Hamid

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I saw Styx in sixth grade. I loved Tommy Shaw. I got sneakers like him - he wore these tan Nikes.

Louise Post

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I'm wide open and raw emotionally to the crowd.

Miranda Lambert

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Don't give up on the child. Give the child an education. Give them daily love.

Chris Burke

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For most people, the major hurdle in grasping modern insights into the nature of the universe is that these developments are usually phrased using mathematics.

Brian Greene

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