Steven Chu Quotes
If I were emperor of the world, I would put the pedal to the floor on energy efficiency and conservation for the next decade.
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I think violence can never be justified.
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I had some problems with fidelity in my life but pretty much got along with everybody.
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I survived only a year in Berkeley, partly because I declined to sign the anticommunist loyalty oath.
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Our leaders are acting like lemmings.
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God isn't really interested in our batting averages.
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The public will believe anything, so long as it is not founded on truth.
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In the heat of the Russian summer a sleeping car is the most horrible instrument of martyrdom imaginable.
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If I focus on being an activist and my job is to be a rapper, I'm not going to be as good of a rapper. I need to focus on hip-hop and focus on making the music, so that when the activists come to me and they need my voice to create a platform, then I've got enough people listening to me. Not because I'm conscious, but because I'm dope.
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The one thing that I've always kind of had, ever since I was a kid, was that I lack a certain degree of self-consciousness, which is alternately good and bad.
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We are all terminal.
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If we mean to have heroes, statesmen and philosophers, we should have learned women.
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I'm a walking, talking enigma. We're a dying breed.
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They went into my closets looking for skeletons, but thank God, all they found were shoes, beautiful shoes.
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I think we always view people who make us feel uncomfortable and appear to intrude on our middle-class cozy space, we view them with, if not hostility, at least suspicion, discomfort, embarrassment.
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'The Museum of Innocence' is not about politics; it's a love story, but I think it's political in the sense that it wants to capture how a man suppresses a woman.
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The more closely you get in touch with your dreams, the more able you are to make them real. The more vividly you consider how you want your world to be, the more real and effective tools you will have for making it so.
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For some reason, people look at me and laugh. I don't know why.
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I'm a big believer that we get the politicians we deserve.
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I only auditioned at four schools. I started performing and studying when I was in middle school, and then as I got into high school, it just got more serious. I feel like it became more of a vocation. It became clear to me at that point that I wanted to pursue it.
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It's not going to help the country to be subsidizing uneconomical forms of energy - whether you call them 'green,' 'renewable' or whatever. In that case, the cure is worse than the disease.
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People like Frank Zappa and Bryan Ferry knew we could pick and choose from the history of music, stick things together looking for friction and energy. They were more like playwrights; they invented characters and wrote a life around them.
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I have the f**king energy of a squirrel.
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You know, I read the papers and I watch the news a lot. I watch 'Dateline' and '48 Hours'. And I think we have a tendency to become terrified of one another, thinking that there is a serial killer that is on either side of you.
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If I were emperor of the world, I would put the pedal to the floor on energy efficiency and conservation for the next decade.
