Leroy Chiao Quotes
As commander I was responsible for the overall success of the mission, and so I had to know at least a little bit about everything.
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Listen: our culture is saturated with irony whether we know it or not.
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When I was governor, I was looking for a way to unify our state. I realized music is about the only thing that unifies Tennessee.
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In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice. But, in practice, there is.
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There are successful scholars, public-spirited scholars, upright scholars, cautious scholars, and those who are merely petty men.
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The simpler I keep things, the better I play.
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You can take the boy out of Bombay; you can't take Bombay out of the boy, you know.
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All I want to do is get back to a principle-based Congress.
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Yes, I guess I am bi-coastal.
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I was poor. When you're poor you work, and when you're rich you expect somebody to hand it to you. So I think being reasonably poor is very good for people.
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I have admired David Bromley's work for years. He possesses such a wild and vivid imagination and really sees the beauty in everything.
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As long as the number one worry for people, keeping them up at nights, is whether they're going to have a job in the morning, then they are less likely to resist unfair changes, or unfair treatment, or cuts in real pay at work.
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I think of America not so much as a single country but as a constellation of groups out there competing for air time, energetically expressing themselves and luxuriating in their right to govern themselves. Freedom is that great vaunted word that's always applied to our country - and rightly so.
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Most fathers don't see the war within the daughter, her struggles with conflicting images of the idealized and flawed father, her temptation both to retreat to Daddy's lap and protection and to push out of his embrace to that of beau and the world beyond home.
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You had eight years before President Trump, a situation where the opposition party basically ran in opposition to the president on a platform of thinly based racism. That doesn't mean that the politicians themselves were outright racist, but when charges of birtherism came up, no one repudiated it.
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I would have strong opinions and be prepared to argue my case, but if you talk to my colleagues, I think you'd find they consider me the jokester, the informal mayor of the West Wing.
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I'm sponsored by Audi, so I have this rather lovely rather arrangement where they just insist that I'm always in the latest model.
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Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year.
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Each color lives by its mysterious life.
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Go on. Treat me like the page of a book. Your book.
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I've gotten a lot of compliments on the 'Criminal Minds' guy. I guess it's because the look of that character is so different from what people expect of me.
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Everybody's got to do something... I'd been on my own since an early age and I thought I better find something to do to buy biscuits and stuff. From high school onwards I was earning my way with photography, one way or another, working in darkrooms and taking pictures of weddings, neighbors' children and so on.
Elliott Erwitt -
The worst thing in the world is not to be born blind, but to be born with sight, and yet have no vision.
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As commander I was responsible for the overall success of the mission, and so I had to know at least a little bit about everything.
