Steven Chu Quotes
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There is no such thing as a perfect mother.
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My voice is not good enough for me to sing a song.
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I've got ten pairs of trainers. That's one for every day of the week.
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English usage is sometimes more than mere taste, judgment and education - sometimes it's sheer luck, like getting across the street.
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I thought I had the rights to The Lord of the Rings. I don't know how Jackson ended up with the rights.
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I definitely look up to Veronica Roth, Suzanne Collins, and J.K. Rowling.
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I ride my bike for transportation a great deal - occasionally I ride it for fun. But I also have a generator bike that's hooked up to my solar battery pack, so if I ride 15 minutes hard on my bike, that's enough energy to toast toast, or power my computer.
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People want entertainment, a whole night of it, a whole experience.
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Definition, rationality, and structure are ways of seeing, but they become prisons when they blank out other ways of seeing.
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I may play some exhibition games so I don't want to quit the game of chess completely. I just decided and it's a firm decision not to play competitive chess anymore.
Garry Kasparov -
Those who invoke history will certainly be heard by history. And they will have to accept its verdict.
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Death is the beginning of something.
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China's own recent history proves that when it opens itself, there is nothing its people cannot accomplish. A more open China will lead to a more prosperous and stable China. That's good for China, the United States and, indeed, the entire world.
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When I drive through a field, I want to see green grass sometimes, and I don't want to see black and white.
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I like the slow Scandinavian pace. I don't need cliffhangers in every chapter because I don't want to make a Hollywood movie out of it.
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Sheikh Hasina's government is one of the best Bangladesh has ever had. She is taking action against fundamentalists. But even she refused to let me return. I don't think I can ever return home.
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I'm a magpie in my fiction, taking whatever looks shiny and curious to line the nest of my story.
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I run my own world, because I very firmly believe that my destiny, my future is in my hands and I don't want to blame anybody else for the path that I take.
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Dreams must be heeded and accepted. For a great many of them come true.
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In this vast country of ours, people profess different religions, speak different languages, dress differently and observe different customs; but we are one nation; the history of our struggle for independence and our faith in our future development are our common bonds.
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I came first to America in 1977 at the invitation of a man who wanted to make my life story into a musical. But my agent said it was not to be and it was never done. So I went back, but I'd seen New York, and I wanted to live there. Because everybody talks to you in the street. See, nobody talks to you in England.
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The bay-trees in our country are all withered, And meteors fright the fixèd stars of heaven. The pale-faced moon looks bloody on the earth, And lean-looked prophets whisper fearful change. Rich men look sad, and ruffians dance and leap; The one in fear to lose what they enjoy, The other to enjoy by rage and war. These signs forerun the death or fall of kings.
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Sustainable energy is the equivalent of the U.S. moon shot.
