Steven Squyres Quotes
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I did not work hard in order to achieve more and to remain at the level of the player that I am and that I can be.
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I think I've been around for a while. But I still have to pay my dues.
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I personally do not drink. To drink or not to is one's own choice. So long as it doesn't affect others, it is okay.
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I never try to follow a trend or fashion.
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The three great problems of this century; the degradation of man in the proletariat, the subjection of women through hunger, the atrophy of the child by darkness.
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Vietnam helped me to look at the horror and terror in the hearts of people and realize how we can't aim guns and set booby traps for people we have never spoken a word to. That kind of impersonal violence mystifies me.
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The greatest desire of my heart was for the Lord to manifest His will concerning me.
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The Queen's wedding dress in 1947, there was some embroidery on the train which was definitely there to illustrate new dawn/post-war optimism, that sort of thing.
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I have about 4 million Lego bricks. And then a few million in storage in case something comes up. I still pay for them. I buy my bricks just like everyone else. It's by far my biggest capital expense.
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If I were governor, and a bill came to my desk that provided for background checks at gun shows, I would sign that.
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We acquire the strength we have overcome.
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Over the years, I learned that in my career, unlike in life, sometimes my wheelchair is its own automatic door opener. I was able to win the OWN competition by applying one simple principle: be funny, and admit you suck before anyone else can call you out on it. In other words, make the narrative of your failure a comedy.
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Being a good songwriter means paying attention and sticking your hand out the window to catch the song on the way to someone else's house!
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The music led to the acting. But movies aren't something you can just will yourself into. Someone has to choose you, and you have to be quite fortunate to be chosen.
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I believe in a world where there are no heroes, and I've read and know humanity a lot. There are moments that I admire in a person courage, intellect, hard work. These are the qualities I admire in an intellectual, in a writer, and there are so many people who have these things.
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If you are vigilant and make a stern effort to reject every thought when it rises, you will soon find that you are going deeper and deeper into your own inner self, where there is no need for your effort to reject the thoughts.
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Acting is a form of confession.
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I'm not sure what 'cheeky' means. I hear it used so much and in so many different ways, I can't identify the real meaning of it.
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The main tenet of design thinking is empathy for the people you're trying to design for. Leadership is exactly the same thing - building empathy for the people that you're entrusted to help.
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In 1979, when I was 39, I had such a bad year, I thought it was all over. Thankfully it wasn't.
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I will be very grateful that I get to go out and play a song and get well paid for it.
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Live theater is an amorphous art, constantly shifting and evolving with every performance.
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I regret the 1998 - 99 lockout. I regret that we didn't work harder to educate our players and our owners about what the damage would be. I never can quite come up with the answer on what else we should have done, but I always blame a part of the problem on us and some part on the players.
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My style of leadership is to lead with the lightest touch that I possibly can.
