Pollyanna Chu Quotes

When I came back to Hong Kong in 1992, I decided to pursue a new career challenge.

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• I'm optimistic about people and about the planet and about nature. I think it's resilient, like people are.

  

  Viggo Mortensen
  • People
  • Nature
  • Think

• 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.

  

  Feng Zhang
  • Light
  • Control
  • Brain

• 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?

  

  Karen Armstrong
  • People
  • Important
  • Religious

• But Charlie, Charlie, how can we ever really know anything? Charlie, what or who is God?

  

  Edgar Bergen
  • God
  • Know
  • Ever

• 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.

  

  Felicity Kendal
  • Up
  • Long
  • Career

• A bachelor's life is no life for a single man.

  

  Samuel Goldwyn
  • Life
  • Man
  • Single

• If you can get yourself where you're not afraid of dying, then you can move forward a lot faster.

  

  Ted Turner
  • Yourself
  • Dying
  • Afraid

• If I only had a little humility, I'd be perfect.

  

  Ted Turner
  • Perfect
  • Humility
  • Only

• A movie is about human beings, about humanity.

  

  Abbas Kiarostami
  • Movie
  • Humanity
  • Human

• Indian hotels are doing well globally because they understand hospitality.

  

  Zubin Mehta
  • Doing
  • Because
  • Hospitality

• 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.

  

  Zach LaVine
  • Up
  • Good
  • Player

• 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.

  

  Uzo Aduba
  • Morning
  • Easy
  • New York

• The act of longing for something will always be more intense than the requiting of it.

  

  Gail Godwin
  • Always
  • Will
  • Act

• If rock-and-roll is well done, there's nothing so terribly wrong with that kind of music. But the lyrics are another story.

  

  Kate Smith
  • Music
  • Done
  • Kind

• Whenever you argue with another wiser than yourself in order that others may admire your wisdom, they will discover your ignorance.

  

  Saadi
  • May
  • Wisdom
  • Yourself

• Startups on the inside are always badly broken.

  

  Sam Altman
  • Always
  • Broken
  • Inside

• People are going to go where they get characters that they remember.

  

  Cameron Crowe
  • People
  • Remember
  • Where

• I don't talk much to offensive linemen in general.

  

  Jack Youngblood
  • Talk
  • General
  • Offensive

• I'm not searching for that magical Daddy, but I would like to find a partner in life, because I feel like finally I know what love is and what love isn't.

  

  Alana Stewart
  • Life
  • Partner

• “These bible people remind me of another calamity similar to this missionary scheme, when our people, or any christian power would go to Africa for the pious purpose of kidnapping negroes, the mother would cry out to her children "run, run, the christians are coming," so when ever you hear "bibles," run for your life, if you do not want your pockets picked, or to be insulted and slandered as I was... and if you hear "hopeful conversions" or the "gospel," don't stop to look behind you.”

  

  Anne Royall
  • Life
  • Children
  • Calamity

• Motherhood was my career. I'm totally satisfied with that.

  

  Ann Romney
  • Career
  • Motherhood

• I consider myself lucky to have had wonderful teachers. They expose you to a lot and basically teach you how to paint. I think of my career as a series of lucky incidents.

  

  Brice Marden
  • Career
  • Teachers
  • Incidents

• Human experience depends on everything that can influence states of the human brain, ranging from changes in our genome to changes in the global economy.

  

  Sam Harris
  • Experience
  • Brain
  • Influence

• When I came back to Hong Kong in 1992, I decided to pursue a new career challenge.

  

  Pollyanna Chu
  • Career
  • Challenge