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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There is no genius in life like the genius of energy and industry.
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'South Pacific' has a definite heaviness that people don't realize. It's got a seriousness and a message.
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In high school, my English teacher Celeste McMenamin introduced me to the great novels and Shakespeare and taught me how to write. Essays, poetry, critical analysis. Writing is a skill that was painful then but a love of mine now.
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I've learnt more physics from Kabbalah than I ever did in school.
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Even if it takes changing the law, the president should honor the commitment the federal government made to those people and let them keep what they got.
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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.
