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" I'm not as famous as Stephen Hawking, but certainly in the U.S., I have a very high profile for a scientist. It is an awesome responsibility, one that I don't shoulder lightly. "
Neil deGrasse Tyson
Famous
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" I'm fascinated by the deaths of stars and the havoc they wreak on their environments. "
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" I don't want to be famous. I want to be secure. I don't want the world. I just want a piece of it. I want people to remember Eric Davis. "
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" The love of the famous, like all strong passions, is quite abstract. Its intensity can be measured mathematically, and it is independent of persons. "
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" I get very nervous around famous people and I get nervous around beautiful women. "
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" Martyrdom is the only way a man can become famous without ability. "
Arthur Schopenhauer
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" I think that people who are famous tend to be underdeveloped in their humanity skills. "
Diane Keaton
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" I think people I'm close to find it absolutely crazy that I'm famous. "
Zayn Malik
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" I never had a plan B; I would walk around with my head up in the clouds like, 'I'm going to be a famous singer/rapper person one day.' "
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" Two famous happy warriors - Reagan and his political soulmate, British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher - knew they were fighting their own ideological and external wars. But they did so with the sunny dispositions and positive outlooks of those who knew they were on the right side of history. "
Monica Crowley
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" There's a lot to do in space. I want to learn more about the greenhouse effect on Venus, about whether there was life on Mars, about the environment in which Earth and the Sun is immersed, the behavior of the Sun. "
Neil deGrasse Tyson
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Environment
" I have been famous for a long time. "
Warren Beatty
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Time
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" You can't copyright a urinal. But you could probably copyright a sculpture of a urinal. And like Duchamp's famous work, code is both, at the same time. "
Sarah Jeong
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" Many academicians don't even own a television, much less watch one. "
Neil deGrasse Tyson
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Even
Less
" People like consistency. Whether it's a store or a restaurant, they want to come in and see what you are famous for. "
Millard Drexler
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" Famous pivot stories are often failures but you don't need to fail before you pivot. All a pivot is is a change is strategy without a change in vision. Whenever entrepreneurs see a new way to achieve their vision - a way to be more successful - they have to remain nimble enough to take it. "
Eric Ries
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" I can't gather around and talk about how much everybody in the room doesn't believe in God. I just don't - I don't have the energy for that, and so I... Agnostic separates me from the conduct of atheists whether or not there is strong overlap between the two categories, and at the end of the day I'd rather not be any category at all. "
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Strong
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" I'm willing to make compromises based on someone I think is the one, but I think it's psychologically important to people when they're famous to be the only famous person they know. "
John Mayer
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" I'm like a famous person to some people, not to everybody. I want to be big. "
PnB Rock
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" Some of the most famous books are the least worth reading. Their fame was due to their having done something that needed to be doing in their day. The work is done and the virtue of the book has expired. "
Moliere
Day
Book
Famous
" The excitement for me lies not so much in interviewing the hard-to-get famous person, but the person whom you are about to discover. You know, like maybe the character actors who are just coming into their own and you're realizing how great they are. "
Terry Gross
Know
Character
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" I had no desire to be famous; I just wanted to make the greatest music ever made. I didn't want anyone to know who I was. "
Robert Smith
Music
Know
Want
" People generally don't recognize how long it takes to conceive, publish, and write a book. "
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" They eat the dainty food of famous chefs with the same pleasure with which they devour gross peasant dishes, mostly composed of garlic and tomatoes, or fisherman's octopus and shrimps, fried in heavily scented olive oil on a little deserted beach. "
Luigi Barzini
Oil
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" It has always been important to me to be a creative artist, not to be a star, not to be rich, not to be famous. "
Donna McKechnie
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" A country that cannot feed itself cannot have self-pride, and in the mid-'60s 20 percent of all the wheat produced in America came into India. We were agriculturally a basket case. And 15 years later, 20 years later, we have become an agricultural power. This is the famous Green Revolution. "
Jairam Ramesh
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" No one wants to die, and no one wants to die poor. These are the two fundamental truths that transcend culture, they transcend politics, they transcend economic cycles. "
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" Turing was a quite brilliant mathematician, most famous for his work on breaking the German Enigma codes. It is no exaggeration to say that, without his outstanding contribution, the history of the Second World War could have been very different. "
Gordon Brown
World
Work
War
" If you only think of me during Black History Month, I must be failing as an educator and as an astrophysicist. "
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History
" Bill Cosby is a famous black guy who has a bully pulpit the size of the world; it's global. He puts his colossal foot on the vulnerable necks of poor people, and as a result of that, we don't have a balanced conversation. "
Michael Eric Dyson
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" I never dreamt of being a musician for my livelihood. I certainly never would have wanted to be in the business that I'm in, meaning the fame and the glory, the glitter, the rock star, the famous part. "
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