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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I had a lot of fun with my costume designer.
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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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My responsibility is, I'm always trying to look for new people of color or even artistic people who need a chance.
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A woman whose face looked as if it had been made of sugar and someone had licked it.
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You don't know when things are going to happen, so I don't think you should be waiting around for them, so I'm interested in making stuff and being in that stuff - that's what my focus is.
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This silly playlet seemed to satisfy them completely as a picture of what they were doing, why they were doing it, and who was against them, and why some people were against them. It was a beautifully simple picture these procession leaders had. It was as though a navigator, in order to free his mind of worries, had erased all the reefs from his maps.
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We have created trouble for ourselves in organizations by confusing control with order.
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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.
