Steven Chu Quotes

By the fourth grade, I graduated to an erector set and spent many happy hours constructing devices of unknown purpose where the main design criterion was to maximize the number of moving parts and overall size.

Steven Chu

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Sometimes a character is really based on research that you do. Other times it's just based on your imagination or perhaps your conversation with the director. Or sometimes all of the above. It depends on the movie and character.

Joaquin Phoenix

CharacterImaginationResearchYou

I know of nothing more despicable and pathetic than a man who devotes all the hours of the waking day to the making of money for money's sake.

John D. Rockefeller

MoneyDayManKnowNothingMore

My success just evolved from working hard at the business at hand each day.

Johnny Carson

SuccessBusinessDayHandHardJust

Service drives a lot of my decisions.

Mickey Drexler

ServiceDecisionsDrivesLot

I loved George Carlin... I used to sit in front of the TV and watch the HBO comedy specials. I loved those comedy specials.

Mick Foley

LovedComedyWatchSitUsedFront

I'm not one of those critics that believes U.S. foreign policy is confused, or stupid, or misinformed, or well-intentioned but it goes awry. I think it's a brilliant policy filled with many brilliant, terrible, horrible victories.

Michael Parenti

StupidThinkConfusedBrilliant

Consumers are going to have get used to eating less meat - to paying more for better quality meat and eating significantly less of it.

Jonathan Safran Foer

QualityEatingBetterMoreMeatGet

I understood right from the start that every set of library doors were the sort of magic portals that lead to other lands. My God, right within reach there were dinosaurs and planets and presidents and girl detectives!

Deb Caletti

GirlGodStartLibraryDoorsMagic

I've had some great times with actresses, but that's in a movie.

Clive Owen

GreatSomeMovieHadTimes

The idea that somebody who has done something horrible in a war is not willing to talk about it for 32 years is hardly a shocking idea. Quite the contrary.

Bob Kerrey

WarDoneTalkYearsSomethingIdea

Metal, I love metal sounds. If I have a stick with me, I just drag it across a fence. And all fences make different sounds, just like people when they laugh.

Aurora

LovePeopleMeLaughFenceMetal

My parents were both from extremely different backgrounds. My father's Italian, my mother was of Swedish descent. They're both first-generation Americans.

Susan Lucci

FatherMotherParentsDifferentBoth

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