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.

Leroy Chiao

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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.

  

  Samantha Bond
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• I grew up in the '80s. I was a kid, but all my favorite movies came out of that period.

  

  Dan Fogler
  • Up
  • Period
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• Bondage is - subjection to external influences and internal negative thoughts and attitudes.

  

  W. Clement Stone
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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.

  

  Xun Kuang
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• It's nice not to be too boring.

  

  Barry Pepper
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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.

  

  T. S. Eliot
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• There's no such thing as a non-final cut director.

  

  Abel Ferrara
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• You wouldn't know it, but I'm no good at recognising people; I have face blindness.

  

  Sadie Jones
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• Writing is finally play, and there's no reason why you should get paid for playing.

  

  Irwin Shaw
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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.

  

  Walter Becker Steely Dan
  • Want
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• I really feel that New York City is the greatest city in the world.

  

  Gabriel Macht
  • World
  • City
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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.

  

  Dan Farmer
  • Say
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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.

  

  Uday Kotak
  • Important
  • Management
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• 'Bramhotsavam' is a celebration of families, life and togetherness. It's a film I hold close to my heart.

  

  Mahesh Babu
  • Life
  • 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.

  

  Taylor Momsen
  • Free
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• I love doing costumes. The costume is an actor's first line, so it's gotta be right!

  

  Xavier Dolan
  • Love
  • Doing
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• I don't think many people anticipated how the Internet was going to revolutionize the way we disseminate information.

  

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  • People
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• There are times, you know, it's said in the Spiritual Tradition, just a glimpse at an enlightened personage can convey immense information at the sub-conscious level that sprouts later, that we don't even know.

  

  Dan Millman
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• The U.S. limits mercury, arsenic, and soot from power plants. Yet, astonishingly, there are no national limits on how much carbon pollution these plants can dump into our atmosphere.

  

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• The figure of the enthusiast who has just discovered jogging or a new way to fix tofu can be said to stand or, more accurately, to tremble on the threshold of conversion, as the representative American.

  

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• He who looks the higher is the more highly distinguished, and turning over the great book of nature (which is the proper object of philosophy) is the way to elevate one's gaze.

  

  Galileo Galilei
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  • Nature

• In Pakistan, the right to go to school is not a given. In the more rural areas, a girl is born, married off as early as 9 years old, and basically lives life under the control of men.

  

  Janine di Giovanni
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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.

  

  Leroy Chiao
  • Nature
  • Running
  • Space