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Everyone has all different experiences in school. I just know that throughout my life, at no time did any teacher ever point to me and say, hey. He'll go far.
Neil deGrasse Tyson
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Neil deGrasse Tyson
Age: 65
Born: 1958
Born: October 5
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The educated elite is not without their own actual snobbery. And I kind of an anti-elitist in that regard.
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