Author: LINUS FERNANDES
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Arjun Kapoor: Preparation
“Preparation for any role is a must, so that when the shot is happening, it’s about reacting and living that moment. One must be so prepared that spontaneity comes!” – – – Arjun Kapoor.
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Ryan Seacrest: Crucial simplicity
“As much as we all talk about the future and how so many things are merging, there is a simplicity that is crucial.” —Ryan Seacrest.
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Ali Cottong: Trust
“Trust will become perhaps the most important design element in any system.” —Ali Cottong.
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Kim Kardashian: Media
“I would rather have been beaten up in the media than live a life that wasn’t happy.” —Kim Kardashian.
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Salman Rushdie: Power
“Those who do not have power over the story that dominates their lives, power to retell it, rethink it, deconstruct it, joke about it, and change it as times change, truly are powerless, because they cannot think new thoughts.” —Salman Rushdie.
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Steve Jobs: Bicycle for our minds
“I read a study that measured the efficiency of locomotion for various species on the planet. The condor used the least energy to move a kilometre. And, humans came in with a rather unimpressive showing, about a third of the way down the list. It was not too proud a showing for the crown of…
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Nita Ambani: I’m Elizabeth Taylor
“My father-in-law saw me at a dance performance. The next day, I got a phone call, and the caller said, ‘I’m Dhirubhai Ambani… may I talk to Nita?’ I said, ‘It’s a wrong number’ and put down the phone. Then he called again… and I said, ‘If you’re Dhirubhai Ambani, then I’m Elizabeth Taylor.’” —Nita…
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Chandra Shekhar Azad: Success
“Don’t see others doing better than you, beat your own records everyday, because success is a fight between you and yourself.” —Chandra Shekhar Azad.
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Jennifer Lawrence: Scarecrow in real life
“I don’t really diet or anything. I’m miserable when I’m dieting and I like the way I look. I’m really sick of all these actresses looking like birds… I’d rather look a little chubby on camera and look like a person in real life, than look great on screen and look like a scarecrow in…
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Kelly Clarkson: Hope
“I’m actually not a big fan of the word hope. I think it’s a depressing word. I don’t want to hope – I want to know. Like I don’t hope there’s a God, I know there’s a God.” —Kelly Clarkson.
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Francis Bacon: Weigh and consider
“Read not to contradict and confute; nor to believe and take for granted; nor to find talk and discourse; but to weigh and consider.” —Francis Bacon.
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Ivanka Trump: All of us
“Just think how much better our world will be if ALL OF US, men and WOMEN, are empowered to dream big, aim high, and work together towards a more just and prosperous future. A future where all mothers and fathers can work hard and build a better life for their families – where all boys…
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Taron Egerton: Pressure
“To be perfectly honest, I like pressure. It’s something I find exciting. And I am the kind of personality that gets very bored very easily. The work I try and involve myself with is ordinarily determined by how much it sort of frightens me.” — Taron Egerton.
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Anna Kendrick: Ego in check
“If I took myself too seriously, I would be a mess every day because the world keeps my ego in check.” —Anna Kendrick.
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Anna Kendrick: Gentleman’s chess
“I think a gentleman is someone who holds the comfort of other people above their own. The instinct to do that is inside every good man, I believe. The rules about opening doors and buying dinner and all of that other ‘gentleman’ stuff is a chess game, especially these days.” —Anna Kendrick.
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Taron Egerton: Inflating
“People always say ‘humbling,’ but I actually think it’s quite inflating being nominated for an award. It’s wonderful; it’s a great feeling.” —Taron Egerton.
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Queen Latifah: From a young age
“I was taught from a young age that many people would treat me as a second-class citizen because I was African-American and because I was female.” —Queen Latifah.
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Rupert Wyatt: Success
“Success can create amazing opportunities but it can also bring a set of confines which make your decisions a little murkier.” —Rupert Wyatt.
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Jane Austen: Intolerably stupid
“The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.” ― Jane Austen.
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Stacey Dash: Integration
“The natural evolution of a well-educated populus is integration. And this is not political; it’s not theoretical; it’s not even partisan.” —Stacey Dash.
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Johnny Cash: Novels and Bible
“I read novels but I also read the Bible. And study it, you know? And the more I learn, the more excited I get.” —Johnny Cash.
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Elizabeth Taylor: I haven’t had tomorrow
“When people say, ‘She’s got everything’, I’ve got one answer – I haven’t had tomorrow.” —Elizabeth Taylor.
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Heather Locklear: Actress
“Anybody can say she’s an actress. It’s another thing to get a job.” —Heather Locklear.
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Kevin Smith: T-shirts and long pants
“T-shirts and long pants make me easier to find in a crowd, but also easy to disappear in a crowd because if I am wearing this and suddenly I am not, it’s like a Harry Potter invisibility cloak.” —Kevin Smith.
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Monica Lewinsky: Patient Zero
“I was Patient Zero. The first person to have their reputation completely destroyed worldwide via the Internet.” —Monica Lewinsky.
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Victor Hugo: Love is like a tree
“Love is like a tree: it grows by itself, roots itself deeply in our being and continues to flourish over a heart in ruin. The inexplicable fact is that the blinder it is, the more tenacious it is. It is never stronger than when it is completely unreasonable.” —Victor Hugo.
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Carrie Fisher: Everything is negotiable
“Everything is negotiable. Whether or not the negotiation is easy is another thing.” – – – Carrie Fisher.
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Margaret Mead: Sisters
“Sisters is probably the most competitive relationship within the family, but once the sisters are grown, it becomes the strongest relationship.” ~Margaret Mead.
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Margaret Courtney: Be kind to thy father
“Be kind to thy father, for when thou wert young, / Who loved thee so fondly as he? / He caught the first accents that fell from thy tongue, / And joined in thy innocent glee.” —Margaret Courtney, poet (1822-1862) .
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Heather Locklear: Older you get
“The older you get, the farther from the camera you need to be.” —Heather Locklear.
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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.
