Steven Chu Quotes
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I think there is no racism in this film industry. They are only in need of talent, though it takes time; but, if you are talented, you will get your due. I am thankful to be part of this industry.
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As a kid, I was always very thin, and I kind of didn't know that I was skinny.
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I thought I knew how to work out before I immersed myself into boxing. I now know what an extreme workout really is.
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They show that roughly two-thirds of a group of neurotic patients will recover or improve to a marked extent within about two years of the onset of their illness, whether they are treated by means of psychotherapy or not.
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I love the outdoors. I love climbing mountains.
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I'd always assumed that I would die at about the same age as my dad - he was 45. I am five years in credit now. I can't get my head around the fact that I am older than he was - ever.
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Maui reminded me of San Diego: beautiful, but crowded.
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As far as rap goes, I grew up in Hollis, Queens, so early influences were people like Run DMC and LL Cool J.
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Individual responsibility, hard work, paying attention in school, faith, family all these things are important.
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I had bohemian parents in Seattle in the last '60s living in a houseboat. My dad wrote science fiction novels and painted big murals and oil paintings.
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I look for poetry in English because it's the only language I read.
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We are at the precipice of great transformation within our culture and government.
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I think to get a title shot, you need to have some expressive winnings.
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Palestinian ideology has become a lethal cocktail of radical nationalism and Islamic fundamentalism.
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I'm addicted to avocados, and I'll put them with anything, particularly chillies. Can you imagine if they became extinct? That would be like the apocalypse, no?
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When we live in a world that is very unjust, you have to be a dissident.
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Some people call me scrappy - and that's because I am.
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I think I made this decision that I just loved making music, and it didn't matter what level I got to do it on, and 'Fight Song' was this declaration that I'm going to keep going, and I'm going to keep believing in myself, even if it seems like it's impossible.
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As it can be maintained that all the great advances have come from men under forty, so the history of the world shows that a very large proportion of the evils may be traced to the sexagenarians, nearly all the great mistakes politically and socially, all of the worst poems, most of the bad pictures, a majority of the bad novels and not a few of the bad sermons and speeches.
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I beat myself off 17 times in one day. That's the worst beating I've ever handed out. I was so sore that it was hard to get that last load out.
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It is really a puzzle what drives one to take one's work so devilishly seriously.
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Coal is my worst nightmare.
