Steven Chu Quotes
Switching to light-coloured roofs and roadways would have the equivalent effect on greenhouse gas emissions to taking one billion cars off the road for eleven years.
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Genuine polemics approach a book as lovingly as a cannibal spices a baby.
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People in general are used to seeing me as the naughty girl because that's what they've always cast me as.
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You'll have to forgive me this boldness, but I think women are very fortunate that men exist! The gods are very wise and certainly knew what they were doing. They created the sun and the moon, light and darkness, the eagle and the serpent, all for the same reason. They are perfect complements and the mechanism we use to reach heaven.
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When money functions as measure of value it must truly represent the values it helps to circulate.
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Home may be where the heart is but it's no place to spend Wednesday afternoon.
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If you do have something you love to do, the fun part of the job is no different than what was fun about doing it in high school for no money. I thought there would be some greater reward in succeeding.
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We have to raise the consciousness; the only way poets can change the world is to raise the consciousness of the general populace.
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The time to make up your mind about people is never.
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Behind every successful person, stands a very successful mother-in-law.
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Whenever cannibals are on the brink of starvation, Heaven, in its infinite mercy, sends them a fat missionary.
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I don't know. I'm really really really nervous.
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I don't have any regrets about the album [Veedon Fleece]. But it's the same old story - an album is basically 35 or 40 minutes of what you do. It's 'part' of what you do.
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"Big" government? Who wants that? I just want effective government. That means America's government needs to be big in some places, small in others and non-existent in others.
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Young women especially have something invested in being nice people, and it's only when you have children that you realize you're not a nice person at all, but generally a selfish bully.
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A Scout is never taken by surprise; he knows exactly what to do when anything unexpected happens.
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Maybe the target nowadays is not to discover what we are but to refuse what we are.
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Harry Potter to me is a bore. His talent arrives as a gift; he's chosen. Who can identify with that? But Hermione - she's working harder than anyone, she's half outsider, right? Half Muggle. She shouldn't be there at all. It's so unfair that Harry's the star of the books, given how hard she worked to get her powers.
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Power is given only to him who dares to stoop and take it ... one must have the courage to dare.
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For me, the '60s in the automotive industry was awesome. The cars are heavy, huge, rolling works of art.
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If you prove the cause, you at once prove the effect; and conversely nothing can exist without its cause.
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Switching to light-coloured roofs and roadways would have the equivalent effect on greenhouse gas emissions to taking one billion cars off the road for eleven years.
