Alex Chiu Quotes

I know my theories and findings are hard for you to accept because they are so original and extraordinary.

Alex Chiu

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• In Iraq we must succeed. Failure is not an option.

  

  Zbigniew Brzezinski
  • Failure
  • Succeed
  • Option

• The stopwatch doesn't lie. The tape measure doesn't lie.

  

  Daley Thompson
  • Lie
  • Measure
  • Tape

• It seems to me that 'women's writing' by nature would not seek equivalence in the male world. It would be a writing that sought to express a distinction, not deny it.

  

  Rachel Cusk
  • World
  • Writing
  • Women

• I don't aspire to have high approval ratings. I aspire, in light of my two predecessors, to be the most honest governor I can be. I'd rather focus on honesty than popularity.

  

  Pat Quinn
  • High
  • Light
  • Focus

• Human beings are a social species. We like to hang together in groups, just like wildebeests, just like lions. Wildebeests don't hang with lions because lions eat wildebeests. Human beings are like that. We do what that group does that we're trying to identify with.

  

  Dan Phillips
  • Trying
  • Together
  • Group

• Books on horse racing subjects have never done well, and I am told that publishers had come to think of them as the literary version of box office poison.

  

  Laura Hillenbrand
  • Horse
  • Books
  • Racing

• As soldiers in Israel's army, one of the most grueling training regimens we had to endure was a long march while carrying a comrade on a stretcher.

  

  Naftali Bennett
  • Long
  • Training
  • Army

• Fighting is easy to understand. You just hit the guy as hard as you can.

  

  Bas Rutten
  • Guy
  • You
  • Fighting

• I went to high school in a steel town in Pennsylvania.

  

  Frances McDormand
  • School
  • High
  • High School

• A lot of people quit looking for work as soon as they find a job.

  

  Zig Ziglar
  • People
  • Work
  • Job

• I'm very much against war; I'm very much against terrorism of any kind. I find terrorism to be one of the most appalling things that can exist in society.

  

  Gary Sherman
  • War
  • Society
  • Terrorism

• When it comes to the periodic table, the United States really blew its chance to make a name for itself. If you look over a map of all the elements named for cities, states, countries, and continents, it's not surprising that European locales dominate the map.

  

  Sam Kean
  • Chance
  • Look
  • Name

• Basically we just created our own label, but again we just did it to document our own music and create our own thing, so the major labels were just always out of our picture, we're not interested.

  

  Ian MacKaye
  • Music
  • Always
  • Picture

• Coming from a background of being onstage, you're onstage for two and a half hours and you're in it for the whole time no matter what you're doing. Even if you don't have a line, you have to stay in it.

  

  Aaron Tveit
  • Time
  • You
  • Doing

• I've never thought in terms of 'men do this' and 'women do that.'

  

  Carly Fiorina
  • Men
  • Women
  • Thought

• Even private persons in due season, with discretion and temper, may reprove others, whom they observe to commit sin, or follow bad courses, out of charitable design, and with hope to reclaim them.

  

  Isaac Barrow
  • May
  • Bad
  • Hope

• But my family's really close and I was interested in what Mommy and Daddy did for a living. So when Mommy and Daddy had a script that wasn't totally age inappropriate, they would let me read it. And we would talk about it.

  

  Zoe Kazan
  • Family
  • Age
  • Me

• There is no gender to my music. There's no male or female voice, no trite lyrics or poetry. It's much more abstract, so it lives with you longer.

  

  Yiannis Chryssomallis
  • Music
  • Poetry
  • Lyrics

• My father is Hungarian and moved to Britain during the uprising, and my Spanish mum comes from Galicia; they moved here at the end of the Fifties.

  

  Anton du Beke
  • Father
  • Spanish

• There are 168 hours in a week, and even if you're working out two, three, four, or five times a week for an hour, you're still not working out at least 95 to 98 percent of the week. So it's what you do during that time that's far more impactful than what you do in the gym.

  

  Harley Pasternak
  • Gym

• In my opinion it is harmful to place important things in the hands of philanthropy, which in Russia is marked by a chance character. Nor should important matters depend on leftovers, which are never there. I would prefer that the government treasury take care of it.

  

  Anton Chekhov
  • Important
  • Character
  • Opinion

• John was sick of having little girls in pink dresses who were just trying their best. He would try to create controversy. It was not always good for me, but it was fun for him.

  

  Sasha Cohen
  • Girls
  • Dresses
  • John

• I was mid-sentence when the casting director said, "Listen, kid. You should not be an actress. You are not pretty enough. You should go back to wherever you came from and you should go to school. You don't have it." She was very blunt - I honestly think that she thought she was doing me a favor.

  

  Winona Ryder
  • Director
  • Actress
  • Mid-sentence

• I know my theories and findings are hard for you to accept because they are so original and extraordinary.

  

  Alex Chiu