Author: LINUS FERNANDES
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Kevin Smith: Hero’s most epic battle
“More often than not, a hero’s most epic battle is the one you never see; it’s the battle that goes on within him or herself.” —Kevin Smith.
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Gisele Bundchen: Feeling connected
“I believe in feeling connected. Love is something that grows, that comes from nourishment; it builds. But there is a great feeling that happens, that is telling you, I don’t want to leave this room!” —Gisele Bundchen.
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Letitia Elizabeth Landon: Secret
“Nothing circulates so rapidly as a secret.” —Letitia Elizabeth Landon, writer.
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Monica Lewinsky: Qualities
“I think probably the qualities that I look for in a man are somewhat different than they were before I became a public person, but not that much different. I think that, sort of, the element of trust is certainly much bigger for me, but the other things that – the other qualities, intelligence and…
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Idris Elba: Waking up in truth
“Waking up in TRUTH is so much better than living in a lie.” —Idris Elba.
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Victor Hugo: First symptom
“The first symptom of love in a young man is timidity; in a girl boldness.” —Victor Hugo, poet, novelist and dramatist (26 Feb 1802-1885).
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Michelle Obama: Three friends
“We should always have three friends in our lives-one who walks ahead who we look up to and follow; one who walks beside us, who is with us every step of our journey; and then, one who we reach back for and bring along after we’ve cleared the way.” ― Michelle Obama.
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Chrissy Teigen: Basically just be a picture
“Men are very tough, very critical of me. I think they expect you to basically just be a picture. They don’t want to hear you speak.” —Chrissy Teigen.
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Xi Jinping: Full bellies
“Some foreigners with full bellies and nothing better to do engage in finger-pointing at us. First, China does not export revolution; second, it does not export famine and poverty; and third, it does not mess around with you. So what else is there to say?” —Xi Jinping.
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Mona Charen: Fullest expression
“It continues to defy explanation why liberals who theoretically love liberty, equality, tolerance and moderation, should find so much to despise in their own country, which represents the fullest expression of those virtues anywhere on the globe.” —Mona Charen.
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Tom Burke: Stable climate
“A stable climate is the most fundamental resource of all. No one has yet built a civilisation in an unstable climate.” —Tom Burke.
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Ewan McGregor: Seeing the world
“My feeling about seeing the world is that it’s going to change you necessarily, just the very fact of being out there and meeting people from different cultures and different ways of life.” —Ewan McGregor.
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Mira Rajput: Empowerment
“Empowerment means you have the right to choose. So it’s my choice if I want to be at home. And it’s someone else’s choice if they want to be a working mother. But both are equally valid and neither of them should be shamed.” —Mira Rajput.
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Shahid Kapoor: Normal girl
“I think I should date a normal girl. I am tired of dating heroines. While I believe in marriage as an institution, I am also petrified of it.” —Shahid Kapoor.
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Selena Gomez: Sky with fluffy clouds
“When you take your step your dream comes true, you see the sky with fluffy clouds you take your breath—the flowers bloom you belth your way to the top of the mountain you see the sky it leaves you nothing but bumps the rain comes down the lighting hits you are the thunder and Im…
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Plato: Discovery
“You can discover more about a person in an hour of play than in a year of conversation.” —Plato.
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Simon Sinek: Give things a try
“If we don’t give things a try, nothing will get off the ground.” —Simon Sinek.
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Thomas Edison: Closer to success
“Many of life’s failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.” —Thomas Edison.
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Thomas Edison: Criminal waste of time
“I regard it as a criminal waste of time to go through the slow and painful ordeal of ascertaining things for one’s self if these same things have already been ascertained and made available by others.” —Thomas Edison.
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Carrie Fisher: Star Wars
“People are still asking me if I knew Star Wars was going to be that big of a hit. Yes, we all knew. The only one who didn’t know was George.” —Carrie Fisher.
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Alicia Vikander: New relationship
“In any relationship, when you go through any big change, you struggle to find your new constellation, your new ground. It takes a while to determine what the new relationship between you is.” —Alicia Vikander.
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Sri Aurobindo: Spirituality
“Spirituality is indeed the master key of the Indian mind; the sense of the infinitive is native to it.” —Sri Aurobindo.
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Selena Gomez: Label
“I’ve gotten to the point where the label of ‘best friend’ is so ridiculous. If you have three people in your life that you can trust, you can consider yourself the luckiest person in the whole world.” —Selena Gomez.
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Meghan Markle: Be able to delegate
“Be able to delegate, because there are some things that you just can’t do by yourself.” —Meghan Markle.
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Warren Buffett: Uncommon practice
“We do not follow the common practice of talking one-on-one with large institutional investors or analysts, treating them instead as we do all other shareholders. There is no one more important to us than the shareholder of limited means who trusts us with a substantial portion of his or her savings.” —Warren Buffett.
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Judy Garland: Silence of night
“In the silence of night I have often wished for just a few words of love from one man, rather than the applause of thousands of people.” —Judy Garland.
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Lisa Marie Presley: Monster to tame
“Something happens to people around fame and power and money – it can bring out the worst and best in people; it’s a monster you have to tame.” —Lisa Marie Presley.
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Regina King: Modern Mom
“Modern Mom to me is not always someone that juggles a career and family. A Modern Mom is a woman who takes care of herself on the inside and the outside.” —Regina King.
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Saoirse Ronan: Not ethereal
“Everyone thinks I’m ethereal. But I’m not like that, you know. I’m not ethereal. Well, I might have a little bit of that quality to me, that ‘old soul’ thing, but I’m not ethereal.” —Saoirse Ronan.
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Warren Buffett: Investing and risk
“Investing is an activity in which consumption today is foregone in an attempt to allow greater consumption at a later date. ‘Risk’ is the possibility that this objective won’t be attained.” —Warren Buffett.
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Twinkle Khanna: Lived like children
“I wish we lived like children. Run till you are out of breath, flop on the grass, stare at clouds, jump up again, chase a squirrel around every tree in the park, walk on your hands because the world looks different upside down, climb little hills and roll down the other side, do somersaults .…
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Warren Buffett: Spreadsheets never disappoint
“Once a CEO hungers for a deal, he or she will never lack for forecasts that justify the purchase. Subordinates will be cheering, envisioning enlarged domains and the compensation levels that typically increase with corporate size. Investment bankers, smelling huge fees, will be applauding as well. (Don’t ask the barber whether you need a haircut.)…
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Carrie Fisher: Very powerful experience
“I have a mess in my head sometimes, and there’s something very satisfying about putting it into words. Certainly it’s not something that you’re in charge of, necessarily, but writing about it, putting it into your words, can be a very powerful experience.” —Carrie Fisher.
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Charles de Lint: Mysteries
“Without mysteries, life would be very dull indeed. What would be left to strive for if everything were known?” —Charles de Lint.
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Kangana Ranaut: Get our dues
“As a woman, we don’t have to hope to get our dues. We need to get up and get it ourselves.” —Kangana Ranaut.
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Emily Ratajkowski: Going to lunch
“I’m not always going to like the paparazzi photos, but I’m still going to go to lunch with my boyfriend.” —Emily Ratajkowski.
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Charles de Lint: Same end
“When all’s said and done, all roads lead to the same end. So it’s not so much which road you take, as how you take it.” —Charles de Lint, writer (b. 22 Dec 1951).
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Steve Wozniak: Newspapers
“But I know newspapers. They have the first amendment and they can tell any lie knowing it’s a lie and they’re protected if the person’s famous or it’s a company.” —Steve Wozniak.
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Prakash Talwar: Daman and Diu
“The twin islands are a perfect example of a place where history and nature meet.The tranquillity is what symbolises the beaches of Daman and Diu Islands. Daman was the Portuguese colony for over four centuries and joined the Indian Union in 1961.” —Prakash Talwar, in Travel And Tourism Management (4 Vols.) (1 January 2006), p.…
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Raveena Tandon: Sore thumb
“I’d stick out like a sore thumb in politics. The day I say yes to politics, I can kiss my private life goodbye.” —RAVEENA TANDON, actress.
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Kylie Jenner: Projected image
“On Snapchat I show people what I think they want to see. That’s not me. It’s a projected image. A brand. I’m not a different person. I just don’t show all of me.” —Kylie Jenner.
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Phil Coulter: Glorious songs
“It was a matter of not seeing the woods for the trees. Glorious songs have been in Ireland forever, but a lot of these were so popular they were sung only by drunken men at weddings. They didn’t have any regard for the song at all. So, I picked out 14 songs that I had…
