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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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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I love sad. Sadness makes you feel more than anything.
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Great leaders see money as fuel, not a destination.
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I have always believed that 98% of a student's progress is due to his own efforts, and 2% to his teacher.
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Promptitude is not only a duty, but is also a part of good manners; it is favorable to fortune, reputation, influence, and usefulness; a little attention and energy will form the habit, so as to make it easy and delightful.
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We wanted to show people what it was like in one of those neighbourhoods that they would never have access to, in bars that they would be too scared to go into, and a world that they would never get to see. All of that is something really unusual and rare and kind of fascinating. And the only way to do that and to make it really worthwhile was that it had to be authentic. We dedicated a lot of time and energy to making that right and real. So we found basically the worst locations that we could.
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Sustainable energy is the equivalent of the U.S. moon shot.
