Author: LINUS FERNANDES
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Mike Pompeo: When you’re younger
“One of the things you don’t always realize when you’re younger is that not everything you try is going to work.” —Mike Pompeo.
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Simon Sinek: Systems and processes
“Systems and processes are essential to keep the crusade going, but they should not replace the crusade.” —Simon Sinek.
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Rex Tillerson: Enormity of energy consumption
“When coal came into the picture, it took about 50 or 60 years to displace timber. Then, crude oil was found, and it took 60, 70 years, and then natural gas. So it takes 100 years or more for some new breakthrough in energy to become the dominant source. Most people have difficulty coming to…
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Hillary Clinton: Red in the niddle
“If you look at the map of the United States, there is all that red in the middle, places where Trump won. What that map doesn’t show you is that I won the places that won two thirds of America’s Gross Domestic product. I won the places that are optimistic, diverse, dynamic, moving forward. And…
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Albert Einstein: Careless with the truth
“Whoever is careless with the truth in small matters cannot be trusted with important matters.” —Albert Einstein.
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William Lyon Phelps: Final test of a gentleman
“The final test of a gentleman is his respect for those who can be of no possible service to him.” —William Lyon Phelps.
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Henry Ward Beecher: Laws and institutions
“Laws and institutions are constantly tending to gravitate. Like clocks, they must be occasionally cleansed, and wound up, and set to true time.” —Henry Ward Beecher, clergyman and social reformer.
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Tracy Morgan: News
“Bad news travels at the speed of light; good news travels like molasses.” —Tracy Morgan.
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Stan Lee: Never a criminal!
“What did Doctor Doom really want? He wanted to rule the world. Now, think about this. You could walk across the street against a traffic light and get a summons for jaywalking, but you could walk up to a police officer and say ‘I want to rule the world,’ and there’s nothing he can do…
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Tim Berners-Lee: Two myths
“Two myths currently limit our collective imagination: that advertising is the only possible business model for online companies, and… it’s too late to change the way platforms operate. On both points we need to be a bit more creative… I want the web to reflect our hopes and fulfil our dreams, rather than magnify our…
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Seth Klarman: Curiosity
“I’m curious. I want to know how things work. And even more importantly, I want to know what’s going to happen. And what’s going to happen is often related to what has happened.” —Seth Klarman.
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Beyonce Knowles: Power
“Power means happiness; power means hard work and sacrifice.” —Beyonce Knowles.
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Leo Varadkar: Pro-life
“I consider myself pro-life, as I accept that the unborn is a human life with rights, and I do not support abortion on request or on demand.” —Leo Varadkar.
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Kelly Clarkson: Twitter
“I love Twitter! At first I made fun of it, because it is very narcissistic, and there’s already so much narcissism flowing in this industry, I was like, ‘Really, one more?’ So I was against it at first. But I really love the idea of the direct connection – there’s no middle man muddling it…
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Jane Goodall: Change
“Change happens by listening and then starting a dialogue with the people who are doing something you don’t believe is right.” —Jane Goodall.
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Emma Watson: Gender on a spectrum
“Both men and women should feel free to be sensitive. Both men and women should feel free to be strong…it is time that we all perceive gender on a spectrum not as two opposing sets of ideas.” ― Emma Watson.
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Stan Lee: Doing a good thing
“I used to be embarrassed because I was just a comic-book writer while other people were building bridges or going on to medical careers. And then I began to realize: entertainment is one of the most important things in people’s lives. Without it they might go off the deep end. I feel that if you’re…
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Hubert de Givenchy: Dressing
“The dress must follow the body of a woman, not the body following the shape of the dress.” —Hubert de Givenchy.
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Nimrat Kaur: Reality is different
“These are stories you hear… of people sitting in a mall and being spotted, and you think it will happen to you. And when you’re fresh off the boat, and new in Bombay, you want those kind of things! They are magical fables. You want to, somewhere, be a part of it, something people will…
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Richard Steele: Add your reasons
“Whenever you commend, add your reasons for doing so; it is this which distinguishes the approbation of a man of sense from the flattery of sycophants and admiration of fools.” —Richard Steele, author and editor (12 Mar 1672-1729).
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Tim McGraw: Opinion
“Everyone should have their own opinion and be able to voice it. No matter what it is. Of course, that does not mean your opinion is always right. But, you’re certainly entitled to your opinion.” —Tim McGraw.
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Ken Dodd: Eighteen months
“I haven’t spoken to my mother-in-law for eighteen months—I don’t like to interrupt her.” —Ken Dodd.
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Maxine Waters: Right to my anger
“I have a right to my anger, and I don’t want anybody telling me I shouldn’t be, that it’s not nice to be, and that something’s wrong with me because I get angry.” – – – Maxine Waters.
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Lionel Richie: Legacy
“I think the whole world is dying to hear someone say, ‘I love you.’ I think that if I can leave the legacy of love and passion in the world, then I think I’ve done my job in a world that’s getting colder and colder by the day.” —Lionel Richie.
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Sir William Henry Perkin: All praise and honour
“When I look back on my life and consider all the way I have been led, above all I thank God to Whom I owe everything, for all His goodness to me and ascribe to Him all the praise and honour.” —Sir William Henry Perkin.
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Reed Hastings: Epics of humanity
“Stone Age. Bronze Age. Iron Age. We define entire epics of humanity by the technology they use.” —Reed Hastings.
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Elizabeth Warren: It’s better to fight
“It’s better to fight because if you don’t fight, you can’t win. Besides, even when you don’t win, you can change the game.” —Elizabeth Warren.
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Taylor Swift: Hateful comments
“When you hear people making hateful comments, stand up to them. Point out what a waste it is to hate, and you could open their eyes.” —Taylor Swift.
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Betsy DeVos: Donald Trump
“I don’t think Donald Trump represents the Republican Party… I think more and more people are going to realize that they really don’t trust him.” —Betsy DeVos.
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Sterling K Brown: Empathy
“People are starting to understand the other side’s perspective and that’s where empathy can sort of begin – once you quit judging other people but just understand where they’re coming from.” —Sterling K. Brown.
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Simon Sinek: Criticism and advice
“When we are closed to ideas, what we hear is criticism. When we are open to criticism, what we get is advice.” —Simon Sinek.
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Douglas Adams: Beautiful garden
“Isn’t it enough to see that a garden is beautiful without having to believe that there are fairies at the bottom of it too?” —Douglas Adams, writer, dramatist, and musician (11 Mar 1952-2001).
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Chuck Todd: Nothing like music
“There’s nothing like music to teach you that eventually if you work hard enough, it does get better. You see the results.” —Chuck Todd.
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Colin Firth: Playing a villain
“Whenever you take on playing a villain, he has to cease to be a villain to you. If you judge this man by his time, he’s doing very little wrong.” —Colin Firth.
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Cynthia Johnson: Opinion
“You never know how a misspelled word or grammatically incorrect statement can change someone’s opinion of you.” —Cynthia Johnson.
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Rupert Murdoch: Libel
“It’s a libel to say that I use my newspapers to support my other business interests. The fact is, I haven’t got any other business interests.” —Rupert Murdoch.
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George Bernard Shaw: More than he takes out
A gentleman is one who puts more into the world than he takes out. George Bernard Shaw.
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Nassim Taleb: Filtering
“Most of economics is perceived to be incentives and disincentives. So, skin in the game would be to incentivize people if they do well, and also disincentivize them. But that’s not it. No. Skin in the game for me is about filtering. It’s evolution. You cannot have evolution if you don’t have skin in the…
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Sharon Stone: Are they really prettier?
“We’ve got 400,000 girls with beach-y blonde hair, the same nose, gigantic lips, implants in their cheeks, and little Chicklets for teeth. Are they really prettier?” —Sharon Stone.
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Marcus Aurelius: Other people’s mistakes
“Leave other people’s mistakes where they lie.” —Marcus Aurelius.
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Fred Allen: With his hat on
“A gentleman is any man who wouldn’t hit a woman with his hat on.” —Fred Allen.
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Sonakshi Sinha: Be comfortable
“Be comfortable; be you. Whats most important is to understand what suits your body type and personality. Stick to that, and you cant go wrong!” —Sonakshi Sinha.
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P Z Myers: Science gets the job done
“What has occurred over the course of the last few centuries is a growing (but by no means universal or certain) recognition that science gets the job done, while religion makes excuses. Sometimes they are very pretty excuses that capture the imagination of the public, but ultimately, when you want to win a war or…
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Seneca: Disorderly company
“He who fears death will never do anything worthy of a man who is alive, but he who knows that these were the terms drawn up for him at the moment of his conception will live according to the bond, and at the same time will also with like strength of mind guarantee that none…
