"George Bush, within a week of this [the 9/11 attacks], in a speech, attempting to distinguish US from the Muslim fundamentalists, said Our God is the God who named the stars. The problem is: two-thirds of all stars that have names, have Arabic names. I don't think he knew this. That would confound the point that he was making."

-- Neil deGrasse Tyson

#Stars Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Names Quotes

“My father died when I was 4 years old, so I can't really say anything about his hearing.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“America is totally under control of the Jews, you know. I mean, look what they're doing in Yugoslavia.”
“There is a vast difference between treating effects and adjusting the cause.”
“Death and the dice level all distinctions.”

Source : Samuel Foote (1760). “The Minor: A Comedy. Written by Mr. Foote. As it is Now Acting at the New Theatre in the Hay-Market. ...”, p.39
“Always remember that your humanity is what will touch the people of the world.”
“Maybe the memory does play tricks. Increasingly, I'm thinking, 'What was their name? I knew that name yesterday.' I think that's what happens. At some point, I'll forget that I ever worked with Peter Cook, I suppose, and Alan Bennett and Jonathan Miller.”

Source : Interview with Giles Smith, www.independent.co.uk. October 14, 1995.
“Speakers have been showering us with pearls of wisdom for centuries, and if all of their valuable advice were laid end to end, it would still be just as good as new. Very little of it has ever been used.”
“I've never gone out with a guy who is older than me by more than a couple years. Usually it's my age, a little bit older, or even a little bit younger. But not a 15- or 20-year difference.”

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