Pollyanna Chu Quotes
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I'm optimistic about people and about the planet and about nature. I think it's resilient, like people are.
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Brain cells are normally not sensitive to light. So by introducing light-sensitive proteins into specific types of neurons, we can now selectively control that specific type of neuron by shining light in the brain.
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Compassion is not a popular virtue. Very often when I talk to religious people, and mention how important it is that compassion is the key, that it's the sine-qua-non of religion, people look kind of balked, and stubborn sometimes, as much to say, what's the point of having religion if you can't disapprove of other people?
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But Charlie, Charlie, how can we ever really know anything? Charlie, what or who is God?
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It was in India that I started my acting career, courtesy of my parents, long before I set foot on stage in England. They headed a company of travelling players performing Shakespeare up and down the land.
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A bachelor's life is no life for a single man.
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If you can get yourself where you're not afraid of dying, then you can move forward a lot faster.
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If I only had a little humility, I'd be perfect.
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A movie is about human beings, about humanity.
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Indian hotels are doing well globally because they understand hospitality.
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I've always felt I had the ability to be a good, elite defender in this league on the wing. I just need to lock in. I feel if I pick that up, I can be a very good all-around player.
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The first information I consume in the morning is probably 'The New York Times' and then my Twitter feed. I think Twitter is a really fascinating, easy way to stay on top of what stories are out there.
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The act of longing for something will always be more intense than the requiting of it.
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If rock-and-roll is well done, there's nothing so terribly wrong with that kind of music. But the lyrics are another story.
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Whenever you argue with another wiser than yourself in order that others may admire your wisdom, they will discover your ignorance.
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People are going to go where they get characters that they remember.
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I don't talk much to offensive linemen in general.
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The pursuit of perfection always implies a definite aristocracy, which is as much a goal of effort as a noble philosophy, an august civil polity or a great art.
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If you do big things they print your face, and if you do little things they print only your thumbs.
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I started modelling quite late, at 20. In this industry, girls start when they're barely even 14 or 15.
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I was looking for a new challenge and got an interest in trying to make a difference for families. You become more aware of how important families are. They are the key institution in our culture. The reason I got into politics was to try to make a difference for that key institution, whether it was tax policy, education policy, or whatever.
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God has been my number one inspiration. I also look up to Will Smith and Jamie Fox who are also personal friends of mine. They give me great career advice. I would also include Chris Stokes, as a filmmaker and music producer. I've been working with him since I was eight.
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A thorough knowledge of the elements takes us more than half the road to mastership.
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When I came back to Hong Kong in 1992, I decided to pursue a new career challenge.
