Chin-Ning Chu Quotes
Acquire the courage to believe in yourself. Many of the things that you have been taught were at one time the radical ideas of individuals who had the courage to believe what their own hearts and minds told them was true, rather than accept the common beliefs of their day.
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Working with Terry Gilliam was magic - I've been watching his films since I was little.
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It's different for every song. But for 'Say Something,' I think it was Chad who had an idea on guitar, and I had an idea on piano for different songs, and we just married them together. We bounce things off each other constantly and kind of massage all these ideas into a three and a half minute pop song.
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A lot of my work involves instilling objects with the power of touch - a transference of soul, spirit, energy through actions.
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When I was right out of college, I felt competitive with some of the guys in my class over career stuff.
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Movies are a big part of our Indian culture.
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Cartooning was a good fit for me. And yet now, years later, I almost never think about it.
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If the 'Post' can play the role of a connector between the West and the East, I have confidence in the paper's future success.
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I love gay Mardi Gras in Sydney, which is a big parade, a big march that thousands and thousands of people participate in. And there's one little group... well it's not little, it's got hundreds of people marching, and they're all very sweet, middle-aged and elderly people who are the parents of gay children who are out and proud.
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I think it's possible to be multi-rooted, rather like a banyan tree, without being deracinated.
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Friendship, like the immortality of the soul, is too good to be believed.
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I think I'm the kind of person who would be very difficult to employ - I'm pretty annoying, but driven.
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Environmental concern is a phenomena that tends to rise in a nation after a certain level of wealth.
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Faith is a continuum, and we each fall on that line where we may. By attempting to rigidly classify ethereal concepts like faith, we end up debating semantics to the point where we entirely miss the obvious - that is, that we are all trying to decipher life's big mysteries, and we're each following our own paths of enlightenment.
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Working on 'Girls' opened up a lot of opportunity for me. It's like a dream job. It's a dream.
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Life in a Chinese village is much more organised because the Chinese Communist Party has a presence even in the remotest Chinese village - a presence of the kind that no governmental or non-governmental organisation has in Indian villages.
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Our underwear used to just be cotton, but we wanted to see if we could create something out of synthetics.
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I have worked very hard to shed away my chocolate boy image in order to get a tough look for this action entertainer. I am confident of my success and would love to dedicate the same to Director Balachandar sir.
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Nonchalance is the ability to remain down to earth when everything else is up in the air.
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To do the writing, I have to have time to do research.
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In Nine Inch Nails, I've been the guy calling the shots since inception. I'd gotten used to that.
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To be honest, the biggest reason I write music and became a musician was to create the amount of joy that I felt about music to anyone else. To me, that's a job well done.
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The first-sale doctrine reflects basic common sense - and follows from the logic of treating copyrights and other 'intellectual property' with no more protection than regular property.
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The fifties were when people started coming down on 'juvenile delinquents,' 'hoodlums,' 'vandals'-anybody that was young, wore a motorcycle jacket, and didn't act polite around older people.
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Acquire the courage to believe in yourself. Many of the things that you have been taught were at one time the radical ideas of individuals who had the courage to believe what their own hearts and minds told them was true, rather than accept the common beliefs of their day.
