Author: LINUS FERNANDES
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Naomi Campbell: Attention
“If you have to talk to more than three people about the same problem, you don’t want help, you want attention.” —Naomi Campbell.
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Kylie Minogue: Hindsight
“Hindsight is illuminating but not always what we want to see.” —Kylie Minogue.
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L J Smith: Song only you can understand
You don’t love a girl because of beauty. You love her because she sings a song only you can understand. L.J. Smith, Secret Vampire.
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Rose McGowan: White stallions
“We need to look at why so many women believe a man is going to save us. It’s not because of evidence of saving. I haven’t seen a lot of dudes on white stallions pulling up to single women’s homes. In fact, I have seen most women get on their own damn stallion. It’s just…
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Iggy Azalea: Luxury
“Luxury lives in the finer details. It’s a cloth napkin at a dinner table. It’s a mint on your pillow before bed.” —Iggy Azalea.
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Frankie Shaw: Government assistance
“There’s this idea that motherhood is as American as apple pie, but yet we don’t support it with any government assistance.” —Frankie Shaw.
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Karen Gillan: No sense of being famous
“I have no sense of being famous – you’re just working. And then you’ll have a random day in London when you’ll do some press and it creeps into your awareness that this goes out – that what you do every day goes out to televisions right across the country.” —Karen Gillan.
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Anne Rice: Risk making a fool of yourself
“To write something, you have to risk making a fool of yourself.” —Anne Rice.
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Phylicia Rashad: Good director
“The painting cannot see itself. You need the master craftsman to find the nuances and shade them just right. That’s where a good director comes in.” —Phylicia Rashad.
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Sharon Stone: Faking
“Women can fake an orgasm, but men can fake an entire relationship.” —Sharon Stone.
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Milo Yiannopoulos: Diagnostic list for sociopathy
“Shallow emotions. An incapacity to feel genuine love. A need for stimulation. Frequent verbal outbursts. Poor behavioural controls. These are just some of the things that social media are encouraging in all of us. They’re also a pretty comprehensive diagnostic checklist for sociopathy – in fact, that’s where I got the list.” —-Milo Yiannopoulos.
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Simon Sinek: Blazing a path
“To be innovative, we can’t look to what others have done. The whole idea of blazing a path is that there was no path there before.” —Simon Sinek.
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Warren Buffett: Anchoring
“Charlie is a huge believer in the idea that you don’t sit around sucking your thumb when something comes along that should be done that you pour into it. And that’s generally what we’ve tried to do. But there have been times — and it’s usually happened when I’ve started buying something at X and…
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Charlie Munger: Blowing opportunities
“At least we are constantly thinking about the past occasions when we blew opportunities. Since those don’t hit financial reports, the opportunities you had but didn’t accept, most people don’t bother thinking about them very much. At least that is a mistake we don’t make. We rub our own noses in our mistakes in blowing…
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Maren Morris: About as edgy you can get
“You either have to sing about being scorned by a lover or sing about thinking a boy is cute and wanting him to notice you. That’s about as edgy as you can get.” —Maren Morris.
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Woody Allen: Life backwards
“In my next life I want to live my life backwards. You start out dead and get that out of the way. Then you wake up in an old people’s home feeling better every day. You get kicked out for being too healthy, go collect your pension, and then when you start work, you get…
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Whoopi Goldberg: Bullies
“Now, I’ve always known that there were bullies in the world. We’ve seen a lot of it in politics lately as well as in daily life. You see it where people who may be stronger, or bigger, or better with verbiage than other folks… show off. To me, that’s what bullying is, showing off. It’s…
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Marcus Aurelius: Impediment to action
“The impediment to action advances action. What stands in the way becomes the way.” —Marcus Aurelius.
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Michael Sonnenfeldt: Great opportunity
‘My partner used to say, a deal of a lifetime comes across your desk every week. You just have to be looking for it. So while there are dramatic changes going on in real estate, there are always misallocations and mispricing. So even in a down market, some assets will be marked down way below…
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Simon Sinek: Set forth anyway
“To be a pioneer is to stand on a shore, look out at a land we can’t see, know that we can’t see all the dangers and set forth anyway.” —Simon Sinek.
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Emily Levine: Recovering narcissist
“I am a recovering narcissist. I thought narcissism was about self-love till someone told me there is a flip side to it. It is actually drearier than self-love; it is unrequited self-love.” —Emily Levine.
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Luke Bryan: Career
“I refuse to be one of those artists who, 10 years from now, they’re bitter about the rise and the fall of their career. I understand that somewhere there’s a peak and a crest for me, and I’m going to enjoy all levels. I’m going to enjoy this ride that I’m on, and when it…
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Aisling Bea: Poison berry
“We are trained to remember the poison berry, not the berries that are nice, because that means you don’t go back to the poison berry. So that idea of finding the bad thing, or something that makes you feel bad, is how humans survived.” —Aisling Bea.
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Ed Latimore: Internet abuse
“If you tell me that blocking someone on social media is weak, I’m gonna assume you: 1) Had social media in high school (27 or younger) 2) Were raised no lower than middle-class 3) Never been in a real fight You’re so soft you think taking internet abuse is a mark of strength.” —Ed Latimore.
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Nick Jonas: Pressure and scrutiny
“Being a pastor’s kid comes with a lot of pressure and scrutiny. A lot of my dad’s sermons were about respect. It was a beautiful way to be taught about love and two people being equal.” —Nick Jonas.
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Kirstjen Nielsen: Asylum
“Asylum is for people fleeing persecution, not those searching for a better job. Yet our broken system – with its debilitating court rulings, a crushing backlog, and gaping loopholes – allows illegal migrants to get into our country anyway and for whatever reason they want. This gaming of the system is unacceptable.” —Kirstjen Nielsen.
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Tim Cook: History
“History rarely yields to one person, but think and never forget what happens when it does. That can be you. That should be you. That must be you.” —Tim Cook.
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Thomas A Kempis: Means of inward grace
“The more the flesh is weakened by suffering, the more is the spirit strengthened by means of inward grace.” —Thomas A Kempis.
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G K Chesterton: Idea of repentance
“We have lost the idea of repentance; especially in public things; that is why we cannot really get rid of our great national abuses of economic tyranny and aristocratic avarice.” —G K Chesterton.
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C S Lewis: Starved for meditation and true friendship
“We live in a world starved for solitude, silence, and private: and therefore starved for meditation and true friendship.” —C S Lewis.
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Michael Feathers: One thing at a time
“Programming is the art of doing one thing at a time” – Michael Feathers.
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Aidan Quinn: Fires of everyday life
“Really, most of us just focus on what’s in front of us. We’re too busy putting out the fires of everyday life.” —Aidan Quinn.
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Aretha Franklin: Rough side of mountain
“It’s the rough side of the mountain that’s the easiest to climb; the smooth side doesn’t have anything for you to hang on to.” —Aretha Franklin.
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Marcus Aurelius: Power over your mind
“You have power over your mind – not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.” —Marcus Aurelius.
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James Packer: Modern member of industrialized world
“Stop viewing China like it’s the Cold War. Start viewing them as a modern member of the industrialized world.” —James Packer.
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Charlotte Kirk: Never be afraid to hear people out
“Never be afraid to hear people out. You never know what might come of it. Inspiration comes from the least likely places sometimes. But you also have be your own filter. You’ll hear a lot more bad ideas and opinions than good ones, only you can decide which is which.” —Charlotte Kirk.
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Bob Chapman: Parenting is leadership
“Everything I learned about parenting is leadership and everything I learned about leadership was wrong.” —Bob Chapman.
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Luther Burbank: Jungle of weeds
“If we had paid no more attention to our plants than we have to our children, we would now be living in a jungle of weeds.” —Luther Burbank, horticulturist (7 Mar 1849-1926).
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Warren Buffett: Temperament
“Phil Carret used to talk about having a ‘money mind,’ and I would call it a ‘business mind.’ And there are people…with identical IQs that are better adapted for one than the other. And the temperament is all important. I mean, if you can’t control yourself, no matter what the intellect you bring to the…
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Charlie Munger: Reading alone won’t do it
“I don’t know anybody who is wise who doesn’t read a lot. On the other hand, that alone won’t do it. You have to have a temperament, really, which grabs the correct ideas and does something with those ideas. And I think most people who read a lot don’t have the necessary temperament, and they…
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Ben Mendelsohn: Confessional culture
“I think now there’s much more of a confessional culture. That’s not my bag. I come from a slightly older school of thought: ‘give ’em nothin.’ You don’t plead guilty.” —Ben Mendelsohn.
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Mario Batali: Kitchen
“The kitchen really is the castle itself. This is where we spend our happiest moments and where we find the joy of being a family.” —Mario Batali.
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Martha McSally: Deterrence
“The whole idea of deterrence is to convince your enemy that you are willing and able to make it so painful for them to continue on a threatening or bellicose course that they change their behavior.” —Martha McSally.
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Cillian Murphy: Sociopath
“Sociopath is a word that has sort of become shorthand for psychopath and there’s a distinct difference, it’s interesting if you look it up. Sociopath if you look at the medical definition, the profile of a sociopath is that they are supremely intelligent people that are also pathological liars, they have no moral structure and…
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Alex Trebek: Hundred dollars
“I don’t gamble, because winning a hundred dollars doesn’t give me great pleasure. But losing a hundred dollars pisses me off.” —Alex Trebek.
