Author: LINUS FERNANDES
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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.
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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.
