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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I'm going to try to tell stories and let each tale skate its own way into dark or light territory as the needs of the story steer 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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It doesn't matter how many times you win an award, it is always very special.
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My new movie, Fools Rush In, is a romantic comedy and the girl I play in that is very warm, very sweet.
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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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I'd rather have a hundred thousand or a million people saying I'm nuts and I'm crazy for my musical choices and what I've said lyrically, than a million people all raising their hand on the first day.
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After watching my first World Series in 1977, I wanted to be Reggie Jackson. I bought a big Reggie poster. I ate Reggie candy bars. I entered a phase during which I insisted on having the same style of glasses Reggie had: gold wire frames with the double bar across.
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People should be conscious of the large contribution made by anything that gets people together easily in the reduction of loneliness and emotional well-being.
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And so with the sunshine and the great bursts of leaves growing on the trees, just as things grow in fast movies, I had that familiar conviction that life was beginning over again with the summer.
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Old white guys can be a funny bunch, can't they? The same anti-same-sex marriage, anti-affirmative action cadre can flower into the biggest supporters of 'equality' the minute they get a whiff of minority empowerment.
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My style of leadership is to lead with the lightest touch that I possibly can.
