Steven Chu Quotes
What the American family does not want is to pay an increasing fraction of their budget, their precious dollars, for energy costs.
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I'm sort of contrary and stubborn sometimes. When everybody says, 'You have to read this book! You have to read this book!' I'm like 'Oh, I'll get around to it.'
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It's nature-nurture, right? I've been nurtured by Californians.
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I work so hard, but... everything just goes my way! It's insane!
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I have earned wages as a waitress, a nanny, a librarian, a personnel officer, an agricultural laborer, an advertising secretary, a typesetter, a proofreader, a mental-health-care provider, a substitute teacher, and a book reviewer. In and around the edges of all those jobs I have written poems, stories, and books, books, books.
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I'm just very wary that once you start military operations in any country, it's very difficult to predict what the outcome is.
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The first thing I look at is, 'Is the entrepreneur going after really big problems, to the extent that it feels scary when they talk about it?' You wonder if the idea is possible. I have seen that a lot of times, people go after small problems, and that's a sign that they are not confident.
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As an inspiration to the author, I do not think the cat can be over-estimated. He suggests so much grace, power, beauty, motion, mysticism. I do not wonder that many writers love cats; I am only surprised that all do not.
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I always try to start my weekend by running on the beach, which is great fun here in Barcelona.
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One is sometimes meant to reassure the reader that she's qualified to write about a certain topic.
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I'm definitely not getting married. In this business, you're either getting married or they want you to be pregnant. I'm not getting married until I'm forty. If ever.
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Let's not be narrow, nasty, and negative.
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There are many things that we would throw away if we were not afraid that others might pick them up.
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They forbade me from flying, despite all my protests and arguments. After being once in space, I was desperately keen to go back there. But it didn't happen.
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Discovery is for forward lookers. So, no one is born with great knowledge.
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I wanted 'Hell or High Water' to feel like a road movie and an exciting, fun film - until it's not.
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It's such a challenge to play a good guy - it's hard to be believable.
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Many people struggle to make hummus that lives up to their expectations at home, and recreating a favourite brand or the stuff from your local deli is almost impossible.
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People who barely know the two of you assume you are close friends; people who know both of you intimately suspect you profoundly hate each other.
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Music is not a game to me. I take it very seriously.
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It's a very weird thing. When you see your house naked, you feel very protective of it and of the people who lived here before.
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Providing working Minnesotans with at least seven days of paid sick leave every year is the right thing to do to. It benefits our families and helps our businesses become more worker friendly and family friendly.
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It's no fun to be a bluestocking in a family of jockstraps.
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My understanding of God is an experience. God is. That's all I know. In the Biblical tradition, it would be expressed as, "Be still and know that I am God." God is the "I am" energy. Something huge is at play here - cosmic creativity, consciousness, God, whatever you want to call it. I do believe that it's a guided ride. We're on a guided tour of the universe.
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What the American family does not want is to pay an increasing fraction of their budget, their precious dollars, for energy costs.
