Yuan T. Lee Quotes

We need to become good citizens in the global village, instead of competing. What are we competing for - to drive more cars, eat more steaks? That will destroy the world.

Yuan T. Lee

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GoodBusinessWorldDriveVillage

I grew up very fast. I was always hanging around with older kids.

Joe Penny

FastAlwaysUpHangingOlderKids

We hire people who are smarter than us.

Joe Gebbia

PeopleHireUsWhoSmarterThan

My poems... the ones that start out as jokes become these big ponderous things and the ones that start out ponderous devolve into jokes.

Jess Walter

StartBecomeOutJokesThingsBig

'Tis always best to tell the truth. At every crisis, I recommend this as a chief contribution to security in life.

Menander

LifeTruthBestSecurityCrisis

Sleep is over-rated. When you're creating, travelling, and having the best time of your life the last thing on your mind is sleep.

Mayte Garcia

LifeTimeBestSleepMindYou

Katana is a trained, disciplined martial artist. She removes herself from Birds of Prey to go on a personal journey in Japantown, San Francisco, and pursue a quest for vengeance against the Sword Clan, the men that killed her husband.

Ann Nocenti

JourneyMenBirdsHusbandArtistGo

Love is not a feeling of happiness. Love is a willingness to sacrifice.

Michael Novak

LoveHappinessSacrificeLove Is

Elvis Costello's song writing is so peerless and individualistic. It's storytelling and it's deeply intelligent and clever.

Chip Esten

WritingSongIntelligentStorytelling

If you have a screaming angry director, everyone else will be panicked as well.

Bryan Cranston

AngryYouWillDirectorEveryone

The admission of one man, either hereditarily or for life only, into the place of chief of a country, is an evidence of the infirmity of man. Nature has set up no difference between a king and other men; a king, therefore, is purely the creation of our own hands.

William Godwin

LifeNatureMenManKingHands

Beautiful music is the art of the prophets that can calm the agitations of the soul; it is one of the most magnificent and delightful presents God has given us.

Martin Luther

MusicGodBeautifulArtSoulCalm

I'm doing physics because I'm curious about how it works - full speed ahead, damn the torpedoes, don't worry about whether somebody is going to be able to do an experiment next week, just figure it out.

Leonard Susskind

CuriousWorryDoingSpeedPhysics

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