Chin-Ning Chu Quotes
The mind is easily distracted; it loses its focus and becomes restless. If it is not directed positively, its power will be diffused.
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I am remarkably pleased with Obama. I had grave misgivings about him.
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The first book I sat down to write was an historical romance. It was really bad and thankfully no one ever saw it.
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So I think that our foreign policy, the president's strong and principled leadership when it comes to the war against terror and foreign policy is going to be an asset.
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If you're out for two years, and you beat one guy with a full-time job, without disrespect, but we're talking about fighting for a world title. You can't just beat a guy that went there to cover some guy that got injured, and then this guy, after two and a half years, gets a title shot.
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I'm very English. I'm white. I mean, I'm so pale. With spray tans they start peeling and start getting really dirty looking.
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You know, as any parent will say, you know, life happens.
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My father always taught me to appreciate what you're fortunate to have and give back to those who need it. No part of our society is more important than the children, especially the ones who need our help.
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Comic book readers tend to be pretty secular and anti-authoritarian; nothing is above satire in their eyes.
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Common wisdom dictates that the vice president should provide balance to the ticket by representing a different part of the country, another set of experiences, or a basketful of electoral votes.
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We've never been anti-Semitic.
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Life is a great university for the unfolding of the mind, for developing character. In choosing our life work, when we are free to choose, we should remember this, and choose that which will call the biggest man or woman out of us and not that from which we can coin the most dollars.
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The test is to recognize the mistake, admit it and correct it. To have tried to do something and failed is vastly better than to have tried to do nothing and succeeded.
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We live in a time where government is not a leadership thing, it's more a business that's out there and running riot, so I guess the people have to go out there and say stuff.
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Research confirms that great teachers change lives. Students with one highly effective elementary school teacher are more likely to go to college, less likely to become pregnant as teens, and earn tens of thousands more over their lifetimes.
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Where we love is home - home that our feet may leave, but not our hearts.
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Patients know in a heartbeat if they're getting a clumsy exam.
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Gossip is what you say about the objects of flattery when they aren't present.
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I think that I've had a very strange life.
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Reality-including one’s own-is divine, not to be defied but honored.
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What Philips has to offer to India is to further enhance the state of healthcare for the over billion people in this country.
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Actually, I hear a lot of rock music. My husband is a big rock fan.
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Defeat the fear of death and you welcome the death of fear.
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I always had this childhood image in the back of my mind of this fantastic place where all the things I liked came from; Orson Welles, jazz, all that stuff. Los Angeles is one of those places where somebodies become nobodies and nobodies become somebody.
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The mind is easily distracted; it loses its focus and becomes restless. If it is not directed positively, its power will be diffused.
