Steven Chu Quotes

I approached the bulk of my schoolwork as a chore rather than an intellectual adventure.

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• No science is immune to the infection of politics and the corruption of power.

  

  Jacob Bronowski
  • Power
  • Science
  • Politics

• I grew up in a Hindu household but went to a Roman Catholic school. I grew up with a mother who said, 'I'll arrange a marriage for you at 18,' but she also said that we could achieve anything we put our minds to an encourage us to dream of becoming prime minister or president.

  

  Indra Nooyi
  • Up
  • School
  • She

• To take part in this brothel through the payment of my taxes, that had become to me unbearable.

  

  Yannick Noah
  • Part
  • Taxes
  • Payment

• As a queen, I speak about unity and respect. I think that is the most important thing.

  

  Gabriela Isler
  • Important
  • Respect
  • Unity

• There is an important idea in psychology: The 'just world theory,' which says that it is very important for us to convince ourselves that the world is just and things happen for a reason. That there is some elemental fairness in everything, which creates the illusion of justice.

  

  Malcolm Gladwell
  • World
  • Important
  • Justice

• We see considerable strain in Russia, and that's obviously a matter of concern to us. It's in the very strong self-interest of Russia to continue on the reform path.

  

  Warren Christopher
  • Strong
  • Path
  • Matter

• It's tough to be a 15- or 16-year-old athlete competing around the country. There's tension, there's media. I had no idea what I was getting into.

  

  Lance Armstrong
  • Country
  • Athlete
  • Media

• As a spectator, you get to watch everything, but I'd much rather be playing than watching. I'll have time to watch later in my career.

  

  Landon Donovan
  • Time
  • Career
  • You

• I want more movies like 'Straight Outta Compton.' Showing our stories of triumph, we'll make it through, and we'll get to something better.

  

  O'Shea Jackson, Jr.
  • Want
  • Better
  • Movies

• Certain actors wanna get paid, they think working in a low-budget movie is being ripped off. But for others it's like, 'Yes, let's do it.'

  

  Abel Ferrara
  • Movie
  • Think
  • Working

• You never know what's going to happen in your life, and you never know what's going to happen in someone else's life either.

  

  Tea Obreht
  • Life
  • You
  • Know

• This awful concept of underclass is really horrifying. You're not lower class, you are excluded - outside.

  

  Zygmunt Bauman
  • You
  • Class
  • Lower Class

• It meant a lot because it was my first time to compete as a senior at that meet, which was kind of weird because I've done senior all year, but I didn't get to compete last year because of my elbow.

  

  Carly Patterson
  • Time
  • Done
  • Kind

• Typecasting is an interesting thing because, in a way, if you're good at something, you're going to work at that thing. In other ways, you constantly have to change people's opinion of you as one thing, especially if you want to play different roles. You have to shatter that image sometimes.

  

  Aaron Tveit
  • People
  • Good
  • Work

• Let men tremble to win the hand of woman, unless they win along with it the utmost passion of her heart.

  

  Nathaniel Hawthorne
  • Men
  • Heart
  • Hand

• I have allowed the media to behave as it wants. ... I am not worried. The truth will certainly be known.

  

  Narendra Modi
  • Truth

• William James used to preach the 'will-to-believe.' For my part, I should wish to preach the 'will-to-doubt.' None of our beliefs are quite true; all at least have a penumbra of vagueness and error. What is wanted is not the will to believe, but the will to find out, which is the exact opposite.

  

  Bertrand Russell
  • Believe
  • True
  • Wish

• As a journalist, as a screenwriter and as a director, I'm trying to tell compelling and truthful stories.

  

  Peter Landesman
  • Trying

• Ninth generation American, ma'am, and I'm the first one in my family born with all my rights. I'm a ninth generation American. And so we have not escaped because I went to Yale all the problems of this country.

  

  Van Jones
  • Country
  • Family
  • American

• O hushed October morning mild, Thy leaves have ripened to the fall; Tomorrow's wind, if it be wild, Should waste them all. The crows above the forest call; Tomorrow they may form and go. O hushed October morning mild, Begin the hours of this day slow. Make the day seem to us less brief. Hearts not averse to being beguiled, Beguile us in the way you know. Release one leaf at break of day; At noon release another leaf; One from our trees, one far away.

  

  Robert Frost
  • May
  • Fall
  • Morning

• I have this fantasy of my older days, painting or sculpting or making things. I have this fantasy of a bike trip to Chile. I have this fantasy of flying into Morocco. But right now, it's about getting the work done and getting home to family. I have an adventure every morning, getting up.

  

  Brad Pitt
  • Up
  • Work
  • Family

• I approached the bulk of my schoolwork as a chore rather than an intellectual adventure.

  

  Steven Chu
  • Adventure
  • Chore
  • School Work