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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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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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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My whole thing is feel free to hate me – I so don't care if you hate me, but meet me, and listen to my record, and know me before you hate me.
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I love doing costumes. The costume is an actor's first line, so it's gotta be right!
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As apt and applicable as the Declaration of Independence is today, we would do well to honor that other historic document drafted in this hall - the Constitution of the United States. For it stressed not independence but interdependence - not the individual liberty of one but the indivisible liberty of all.
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One curious result of this inertia, which deserves to rank among the fundamental 'laws' of nature, is that when a discovery has finally won tardy recognition it is usually found to have been anticipated, often with cogent reasons and in great detail.
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I think writers are observers and watchers. We always have our ears open and eyes open, so I might see something in everyday life that inspires me. And I think that's probably more than anything else. Everyday life is where I get my inspiration.
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You're not a baby boomer if you don't have a visceral recollection of a Kennedy and a King assassination, a Beatles breakup, a U.S. defeat in Vietnam, and a Watergate.
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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.
