Leroy Chiao Quotes
Tinkering is something we need to know how to do in order to keep something like the space station running. I am a tinkerer by nature.
Quotes to Explore
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'Downton' is one of the best jobs in the world, and I'm looking forward to the next series for Maggie Smith's wicked sense of humour.
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The line between private and public lives is a fertile one for me. I've lived quite a public life, and it's the reason I have used well-known people in my work. I'm interested in what's going on beneath the facades they present to the world, taking them to a place which is uncomfortable.
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I grew up in the '80s. I was a kid, but all my favorite movies came out of that period.
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Bondage is - subjection to external influences and internal negative thoughts and attitudes.
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I once tried standing up on my toes to see far out in the distance, but I found that I could see much farther by climbing to a high place.
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It's nice not to be too boring.
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What we call the beginning is often the end. And to make an end is to make a beginning. The end is where we start from.
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There's no such thing as a non-final cut director.
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Computers are wasteful of paper and time. Once, we'd get documents with a few errors. Now, people make hundreds of copies until each sheet is flawless and memos are duplicated endlessly. Managers get swamped with emails.
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You wouldn't know it, but I'm no good at recognising people; I have face blindness.
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Writing is finally play, and there's no reason why you should get paid for playing.
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I learned a lot from the various artists I produced. Either you see them doing something that you do want to do it, or you see them doing something the way you don't want to do it.
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While technology empowers us to remain connected all the time, it's up to us as people to decide when is it not appropriate to be connected... to opt out when you need to.
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I really feel that New York City is the greatest city in the world.
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I would rather be the tail of a lion than the head of a mouse.
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What is right, what is wrong, how can anyone say? I view very, very, few things as Right with a capital R.
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When I wear the hat of management, it is important that our management behaves and conducts as management accountable to the board.
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'Bramhotsavam' is a celebration of families, life and togetherness. It's a film I hold close to my heart.
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For 11 years, I was mayor of Tirana, our capital. We faced many challenges. Art was part of the answer, and my name, in the very beginning, was linked with two things: demolition of illegal constructions in order to get public space back, and use of colors in order to revive the hope that had been lost in my city.
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The further you get from nature, the less happy you are; and the nearer, the more exultant you become over the world and all that there is in it.
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Of the primary emotions, fear is the one that bears most directly on survival. Children show fear. Adults try not to, maybe because it's shameful, or, in some circumstances, dangerous. The fear response is automatic, though, and your body runs through its reflexes whether you want it to or not.
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I can't rewrite history.
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I would rather entertain and hope that people learned something than educate people and hope they were entertained.
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Tinkering is something we need to know how to do in order to keep something like the space station running. I am a tinkerer by nature.
