Arthur Chu Quotes
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I buried Joel on our 48th anniversary. I had been with her since I was 16.
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Do we really want to continue to push out the envelope of survival only to see other things crop up that we may not like?
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Of strong importance to me is the defense of minority rights, not just racial minorities, but ideological and religious minorities.
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On my first day at Yale Law School, there were posters in the hallways announcing an event with Tony Blair, the former British prime minister. I couldn't believe it: Tony Blair was speaking to a room of a few dozen students? If he came to Ohio State, he would have filled an auditorium of a thousand people.
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I don't have a caustic sense of humor. What I find funny, that humor comes from a much gentler place.
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Dissensions between Muslim nations run at least as deep, if not deeper, than those nations' resentment of the West.
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Every performer who ever performed in rock and roll or even close to it is lying if they tell you that they weren't influenced in some way or another by Elvis Presley. He turned the world around.
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If your government had given me a thousandth of the sum it spent to depose me, I could have won that war.
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I would only take a role that I know I'm comfortable in and I can do. I've turned down plenty of things because I'd feel it's not me, and I wouldn't want to come on someone's project and flip that.
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I never got to Broadway. I would love to do that.
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He who is too busy doing good finds no time to be good.
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I've decided I am going to start loving my backside because I don't know anyone who does that.
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Great teams argue. Not in a mean-spirited or personal way, but they disagree when important decisions are made.
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But is not He who created it for the sake of the sick body more than the remedy? And is not He who cures the soul, which is more than the body, greater?
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Time flies over us, but leaves its shadow behind.
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I wouldn't trust Nixon from here to that phone.
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For the U.S., as the largest player in the global environment, unintended consequences are magnified.
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I was teased if I brought my books home. I would take a paper bag to the library and put the books in the bag and bring them home. Not that I was that concerned about them teasing me - because I would hit them in a heartbeat. But I felt a little ashamed, having books.
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When I gave a talk at TEDx, I thought that if I did a good job, the video might go viral.
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The use of slave women as day workers naturally broke up or made impossible the normal Negro home, and this and the slave code led to a development of which the South was really ashamed and which it often denied, and yet perfectly evident: the raising of slaves in the Border slave states for systematic sale on the commercialized cotton plantations.
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In many parts of the world, especially Pakistan and Afghanistan, terrorism, war and conflict stop children to go to their schools. We are really tired of these wars. Women and children are suffering.
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What I learned constructive about women, not just ethics like never blame them if they pox you because somebody poxed them and lots of times they don't even know they have it — that's in the first reader for squares — is, no matter how they get, always think of them the way they were on the best day they ever had.
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Patriarchy appears to be everywhere. Even outer space and the future have been colonized. As a rule, even the more imaginative science-fiction writers (allegedly the most foretelling futurists) cannot/will not create a space and time in which women get far beyond the role of space stewardess.
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It became normal for women on the internet to adopt gender-neutral or male screen names.
