Author: LINUS FERNANDES
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C S Lewis: Some distraction or other
“If we let ourselves, we shall always be waiting for some distraction or other to end before we can really get down to our work.” —C S Lewis.
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James B Jordan: Superficial understanding
“When God says to do or not do some physical thing with our bodies, it is important that we pay heed because this is one of His ways of dealing with us in a total fashion. It shows a very superficial understanding of human existence to say, ‘Well, what matters is my heart attitude, not…
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Julianne Moore: Beauty and the Beast
“The nicest thing André ever said about me was ‘She’s Beauty and the Beast, I like the idea that nobody’s one or the other. You can be the regular girl and you can be the monster at the same time. They’re one and the same. The beast doesn’t have to be an evil or a…
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Nicole Scherzinger: Fearless yet vulnerable
“It’s important to be fearless yet vulnerable. It takes courage to do both.” —Nicole Scherzinger.
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Julia Cameron: Spirituality
“Spirituality can release blocks, lead you to ideas, and make your life artful. Sometimes when we pray for guidance, were guided in unexpected directions. We may want a lofty answer and we get the intuition to clean our bedroom. It can seem so humble and picky and that you dont necessarily think of it spiritual…
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Harold Hill: Pile up enough tomorrows
“You pile up enough tomorrows, and you’ll find you are left with nothing but a lot of empty yesterdays. I don’t know about you, but I’d like to make today worth remembering.” —Harold Hill.
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Marcus Aurelius: How easy
“How easy it is to repel and to wipe away every impression which is troublesome or unsuitable, and immediately to be in all tranquility.” —Marcus Aurelius.
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Stella Parton: Peace is contentment
“Peace is contentment and I think that contentment is rather underrated.” —Stella Parton.
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Thomas Rhett: Shredded
“I would love to get shredded or whatever you want to call it, but at the same time, I really enjoy treating myself to a cheat meal more than once a week. I’ll eat a piece of bread, or I’ll drink a beer, and I’ll have fun with my friends. For me, it’s really more…
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Ricky Gervais: Christian telling an atheist
“A Christian telling an atheist they’re going to hell is as scary as a child telling an adult they’re not getting any presents from Santa.” —Ricky Gervais.
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Arnold Schwarzenegger: Jealousy you have to earn
“You have to remember something: Everybody pities the weak; jealousy you have to earn.” —Arnold Schwarzenegger.
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Grace Jones: Doing the unexpected
“If you are a fan of doing the unexpected, and I am, then it is an advantage to be highly skilled at changing your mind. If you do not want to limit yourself, then be prepared to change your mind—often.” —Grace Jones.
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Michelle Obama: Success
“Success isn’t about how your life looks to others. It’s about how it feels to you. That’s what it means to be true to yourself.” — Michelle Obama.
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G K Chesterton: Combine reason and religion
“Secularists talk as if the Church has introduced a sort of schism between reason and religion. The truth is the Church was actually the first thing that ever tried to combine reason and religion. There had never before been any such union between the priests and the philosophers.” —G K Chesterton.
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Pope Francis: New path
“Sometimes we may feel we are alone in facing difficulties. But, even if He doesn’t intervene immediately, the Lord walks by our side and, if we keep going forward, He will open up a new path.” —Pope Francis.
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C S Lewis: Miseries
“I have learned now that while those who speak about one’s miseries usually hurt, those who keep silence hurt more.” —C S Lewis.
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Shraddha Kapoor: Extremely mechanical
“Intimate scenes or a kiss is a very technical aspect of filmmaking. It is extremely mechanical.” —Shraddha Kapoor.
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Samuel L Jackson: Killing of one’s soul
“People know about the Klan and the overt racism, but the killing of one’s soul little by little, day after day, is a lot worse than someone coming in your house and lynching you.” —Samuel L. Jackson.
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Kerry Katona: Another way to fly
“A broken wing simply means, you have to find another way to fly. Have a wonderful day people.” — Kerry Katona.
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Jennifer Hudson Taylor: Love is as hard to hide as hate
“Love is as hard to hide as hate.” —Jennifer Hudson Taylor, Highland Blessings.
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Tiger Shroff: Stuntmen
“Stuntmen don’t have a lavish life. They are such hard working people, but not respected enough. And I don’t like that. If I become something in my life, I want to give them a better life, take them to a higher level.” —Tiger Shroff.
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Amber Heard: Different standards
“I would love to see women be able to be powerful, complex, smart, opinionated and taken seriously, even if they are beautiful. Even more, I would love to see women held to different standards, other than the superficial ones that we’re held to.” —Amber Heard.
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John Wayne: Black and white
‘If everything isn’t black and white, I say, “Why the hell not?”‘ —John Wayne.
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Jerry Lee Lewis: Either be hot or cold
“Either be hot or cold. If you are lukewarm, the Lord will spew you forth from His mouth.” —Jerry Lee Lewis.
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Arnold Newman: Better photographs
“A lot of photographers think that if they buy a better camera they’ll be able to take better photographs. A better camera won’t do a thing for you if you don’t have anything in your head or in your heart.” —Arnold Newman.
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Marcus Aurelius: Ambition and sanity
“Ambition means tying your well-being to what other people say or do…Sanity means tying it to your own actions.” —Marcus Aurelius.
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Ryōkan: By not knowing
“The flower invites the butterfly with no-mind; The butterfly visits the flower with no-mind. The flower opens, the butterfly comes; The butterfly comes, the flower opens. I don’t know others, Others don’t know me. By not-knowing we follow nature’s course. — Ryōkan.
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Lou Brock: Afraid to look bad
“Show me a guy who’s afraid to look bad, and I’ll show you a guy you can beat every time.” —Lou Brock.
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Jessie Buckley: Ability to be dangerous
“We all have the ability to be dangerous and do things which are morally wrong.” —Jessie Buckley.
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Raymond Chandler: Down these mean streets
“Down these mean streets a man must go who is not himself mean, who is neither tarnished nor afraid. He is the hero; he is everything. He must be a complete man and a common man and yet an unusual man. He must be, to use a rather weathered phrase, a man of honor—by instinct,…
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Kate Beckinsale: Underdog
“Everybody likes the underdog, because everybody feels like the underdog. No matter how successful you are, you always think, No one’s being nice enough to me!” – —Kate Beckinsale.
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Johann Sebastian Bach: On my own accord
“If I decide to be an idiot, then I’ll be an idiot on my own accord.” —Johann Sebastian Bach.
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Bruno Mars: It’s just all love
“It’s just all love. That’s what music is. That’s why music is created. To make people feel good, to uplift people. That’s what musicians are for: to give everyone an escape, to let everyone feel good and take people out of everyday problems, so that they can hear music and sing words that are hopefully…
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Hillaire Belloc: Men will learn eventually
“Men will learn eventually, and if they insist on rejecting the received wisdom of generations past, they do not thereby succeed at invalidating it; they merely condemn themselves to learning it, time and again, by ever grimmer experience.” —Hillaire Belloc.
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Jared Kushner: Things that are really permanent
“The only things that are really permanent are love, family, friendship, and that is a lesson. At the end of the day, that’s really what it boils down to. The rest of it is just stuff.” —Jared Kushner.
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Katherine Helmond: Catholic school
“I went to Catholic school. Do as you’re told; don’t ask questions and you will be illuminated.” —Katherine Helmond. Read more at: https://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/katherine_helmond_522985
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Dr. Seuss: How did it get so late soon?
“How did it get so late so soon? It’s night before it’s afternoon. December is here before it’s June. My goodness how the time has flewn. How did it get so late so soon?” —Dr. Seuss.
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Mikhail Gorbachev: You haven’t done much today
“If what you have done yesterday still looks big to you, you haven’t done much today.” —Mikhail Gorbachev.
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Marcus Aurelius: Discard your misperceptions
“Discard your misperceptions. Stop being jerked like a puppet. Limit yourself to the present.” —Marcus Aurelius.
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Tzvetan Todorov: Certainties of people
“We should not be simply fighting evil in the name of good, but struggling against the certainties of people who claim always to know where good and evil are to be found.” —Tzvetan Todorov, philosopher (1 Mar 1939-2017).
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Warren Buffett: We regard that as nonsense
“Prices do amazing things in securities markets. And when they do something that strikes us as amazing in our direction…we will act. But we do not know today what we’re going to be doing tomorrow…. And there’s this business where somebody says, ‘You should have 50 percent of your money in bonds and 35 percent…
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Lionel Shriver: Already a little bit good
“You can only subject people to anguish who have a conscience. You can only punish people who have hopes to frustrate or attachments to sever; who worry what you think of them. You can really only punish people who are already a little bit good.” —Lionel Shriver, We Need to Talk About Kevin.
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Navjot Singh Sidhu: Experience
“Experience is like a comb that life gives you when you are bald.” —Navjot Singh Sidhu.
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Liam Hemsworth: Tomorrow doesn’t exist
“Tomorrow doesn’t exist, yesterday is gone. The more I remind myself of that, the stronger I feel.” —Liam Hemsworth.
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Benjamin Netanyahu: Negotiations
“You can’t end negotiations unless you begin them. And you can’t begin them if you continually negotiate about the terms to begin negotiations.” —Benjamin Netanyahu.
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Mike Willesee: Lost sight of the ball
“If you think about yourself then you’ve lost sight of the ball.” —Mike Willesee.
