Jay Chandrasekhar Quotes
I was pre-med for a semester, and then I got a C- in organic chemistry and was washed out of that program. Then I imagined I'd be a lawyer. I was gonna go to law school.
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I get paid to do what I enjoy, not that common a condition.
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I do get approached occasionally, but not a ton. I'm unrecognizable because I'm coated in cat hair and sweat. And there's a sort of yeti quality to my presence... so I don't think that people can see the face.
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Science without respect for human life is degrading to us all and reflects a hollow and deceptive philosophy, a philosophy that we as a people should never condone.
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I am writing a book called 'The History of Australia in Hundred Objects.' It's of things we have invented in Australia. And you know, some of them are amazing. We invented the clapper boards used in films. We invented those cranes - those big long cranes used on construction sites.
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The bargain that yields mutual satisfaction is the only one that is apt to be repeated.
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I find television, and particularly live television, very romantic: the idea that there is this small group of people, way up high, in a skyscraper in the middle of Manhattan, beaming this signal out into the night.
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My slogan is I'm the least qualified guy for the job, but I'd probably do the best job.
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I can say with a level of confidence that Islam is not a religion of war, only because the majority of Muslims don't subscribe to that perspective, not because there's something inherent in the text that tells me it's a religion of peace.
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Let blockheads read what blockheads wrote.
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No winter lasts forever; no spring skips its turn.
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Prayer is an august avowal of ignorance.
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I jokingly say if there was one great thing about, you know, the Lebanese Civil War was that it forced me to read.
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I think Deborah Harry has a really sexy, cool and quite playful sex-kitten kind of style I really like.
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I had an entrepreneurial spirit and started branching out from there.
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I am very concerned that federal and state air quality programs do not consider public health in regulating certain classes of industrial air emissions.
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Golf is so popular simply because it is the best game in the world at which to be bad.
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Cobain the writer is funny and self-aware and snotty with a knack for off-the-cuff profundity. Remarking to a friend that his band will be called 'Nirvana,' he scribbles next to it the words 'Oooh eerie mystical doom.'
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The present level of armaments could be taken as the starting point. It could be stipulated in an international treaty that these armaments should be simultaneously and uniformly reduced by a certain proportion in all countries.
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If you want to be among the greatest skiers, you have to win in Kitzbuehel at least once.
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I love the way painting is so full of illusionistic possibilities.
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The only way you can learn about making films is by making them, by putting your stamp on the thing.
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By junior high, I was a horrible student. But during my sophomore year of high school, I did have a fabulous English teacher, and I would go to school just for her class and then skip out afterwards. That's actually when I started writing, although I didn't think of it then as something I might someday do.
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I was pre-med for a semester, and then I got a C- in organic chemistry and was washed out of that program. Then I imagined I'd be a lawyer. I was gonna go to law school.
