Author: LINUS FERNANDES
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Charlie Munger: Cryptocurrencies
“I regard the bitcoin craze as totally asinine to create some manufactured currency … I expect the world to do silly things from time to time, because everybody wants easy money. It’s just disgusting that people are taken in by something like this. Who would want one’s children growing up buying things like bitcoin? I…
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Arvind Kejriwal: Statement
“You are criticizing me for my fashion statement. My wife keeps on criticizing me for my blank bank statement.” —Arvind Kejriwal.
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Dilma Rousseff: Yes, women can
“I hope the fathers and mothers of little girls will look at them and say ‘yes, women can.” —Dilma Rousseff.
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Maria Ramos: Ego
“I don’t pay you for your ego. Leave it outside and get the job done … or it will count against you. ” —Maria Ramos.
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Colin Powell: Surround yourself
“Surround yourself with people who take their work seriously, but not themselves, those who work hard and play hard.” —Colin Powell.
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Rick Falkvinge: Iron Curtain
“When the Iron Curtain fell, all of the West rejoiced that the East would become just as free as the West. It was never supposed to be the other way around.” —Rick Falkvinge.
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Donald Trump Jr: Hunting
“Hunting forces a person to endure, to master themselves, even to truly get to know the wild environment. Actually, along the way, hunting and fishing makes you fall in love with the natural world. This is why hunters so often give back by contributing to conservation.” —Donald Trump, Jr.
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Dave Hayes: Make it easy
“You can’t make everyone happy, but you can make it easy for them.” —Dave Hayes.
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Meghan Markle: Reciprocal
‘There is a myth that those who do humanitarian work have a saviour mentality, but the relationship is reciprocal.’ —Meghan Markle.
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Bill Gates: Real life
“Television is not real life. In real life people actually have to leave the coffee shop and go to jobs.” —Bill Gates.
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APJ Abdul Kalam: Swift but synthetic happiness
“Be more dedicated to making solid achievements than in running after swift but synthetic happiness.” —APJ Abdul Kalam.
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Dolores O’Riordan: Great gig making music
“You get older and come to the conclusion that it’s a great gig making music. Even if you turn into an old gnarly fart, no one cares what you look like if you write good songs. The only gig is to sing well and perform.” —Dolores O’Riordan.
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Meghan Markle: Romantic and beautiful
“At the end of the day, if the guy is going to write the girl a letter, whether it’s chicken scratch or scribble or looks like a doctor’s note, if he takes the time to put pen to paper and not type something, there’s something so incredibly romantic and beautiful about that.” —Meghan Markle.
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Chrissy Teigen: Leaders who care about these things
“Some parents struggle to put food on the table. And plenty of women aren’t getting the pay they deserve. While I don’t expect the government to solve all these problems, I do want leaders who care about these things and do what they can to help.” —Chrissy Teigen.
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Geoffrey Rush: Perusing the dictionary
“I do love perusing the dictionary to find how many words I don’t use – words that have specific, sharp, focused meaning. I also love the sound of certain words. I love the sound of the word pom-pom.” —Geoffrey Rush.
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Arnold Schwarzenegger: Resistance
“The resistance that you fight physically in the gym and the resistance that you fight in life can only build a strong character.” —Arnold Schwarzenegger.
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James Rollins: Madness, not genius
“Often-times it’s madness, not genius that moves the world forward. Who else but the mad would reach so far, stretching for the impossible and, in so doing, prove the impossible possible!” —James Rollins.
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Seth Rollins: Be you sometimes
“You just can’t be someone else all the time; you just have to be you sometimes.” —Seth Rollins.
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Marie Curie: Neither swift nor easy
“I was taught that the way of progress was neither swift nor easy.” —Marie Curie.
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Cole Swindell: Living the dream
“When you find what you love, and you find people that will support you, you’re living the dream whatever you do.” —Cole Swindell.
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Ogden Nash: Immature indefinitely
“You are only young once, but you can stay immature indefinitely.” —Ogden Nash.
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Camila Cabello: Nobody’s perfect
“At the end of the day, nobody’s perfect and everybody’s weird whether they embrace it or not.” —Camila Cabello.
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Jennifer Lawrence: Don’t worry about the bitches
‘”Don’t worry about the bitches” – that could be a good motto, because you come across people like that throughout your life.’ —Jennifer Lawrence.
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Oprah Winfrey: Attitude
“The greatest discovery of all time is that a person can change his future by merely changing his attitude.” —Oprah Winfrey.
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Elon Musk: Process, substitute for thinking
“The problem is that at a lot of big companies, process becomes a substitute for thinking. You’re encouraged to behave like a little gear in a complex machine. Frankly, it allows you to keep people who aren’t that smart, who aren’t that creative.” – – – Elon Musk.
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Angelina Jolie: Diversity, our strength
“Our diversity is our strength. What a dull and pointless life it would be if everyone was the same.” —Angelina Jolie.
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Robert Altman: Put your foot down
“If you don’t have a leg to stand on, you can’t put your foot down.” —Robert Altman.
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Jack Ma: New leadership
“The world needs new leadership, but the new leadership is about working together.” —Jack Ma.
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Nayyirah Waheed: I loved you
“i loved you because it was easier than loving myself.” —Nayyirah Waheed.
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Rene Russo: Just cool
“I’ll be honest with you: I’d rather have BAFTA over an Academy Award any day. Because it’s just cool.” —Rene Russo.
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Rex Stout: Labels
“Labels are for the things men make, not for men. The most primitive man is too complex to be labeled.” —Rex Stout, novelist (1 Dec 1886-1975).
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Margot Robbie: So I could show you me
“There’s nothing I dislike more than being in a photo shoot where they say, ‘Be yourself.’ That’s not why I became an actress. That’s what I find so funny: that you become an actor, and all of a sudden, everyone wants to know about you. But I didn’t become an actor so I could show…
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Daniel Radcliffe: Inferior
“Probably the best book I’ve read this year—well, I was reading it for ages, because I got sidetracked—is Inferior, by a woman named Angela Saini. It’s all about how science has consistently kind of underserved and undermined women—female scientists and the female public at large—through male bias, even though it’s often not deliberate. She’s amazing…
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Oprah Winfrey: Limo companions
“Lots of people want to ride with you in the limo, but what you want is someone who will take the bus with you when the limo breaks down.” —Oprah Winfrey.
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Ravi Shankar: Thousands of ragas
“There are thousands of ragas, and they are all connected with different times of the day, like sunrise or night or sunset. It is all based on 72 of what we call ‘mela’ or scales. And we have principally nine moods, ranging from peacefulness to praying, or the feeling of emptiness you get by sitting…
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George Harrison: Birthday cake
“All the world is birthday cake, so take a piece, but not too much.” —George Harrison.
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Shivaji Maharaj: Terms of contrast
“Verily, Islam and Hinduism are terms of contrast. They are used by the true Divine Painter for blending the colors and filling in the outlines. if it is a mosque, the call to prayer is chanted in remembrance of Him. If it is a temple, the bells are rung in earning for him alone.” —Shivaji…
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Lesley Manville: Stage and film
“Stage is the ultimate test; I like watching established screen actors on stage to see if they can really do it. But it’s great to have a healthy mixture of the two. Film is so technical: there’s something very particular about the relationship between you and the camera. It took a long time for me…
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Paul Newman: People stay married
“People stay married because they want to, not because the doors are locked.” —Paul Newman.
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Allison Janney: Conflict
“Great drama is all about conflict, and what’s a better conflict than Republican-Democrat?” —Allison Janney.
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Celine Dion: Regular talking machine
“Some people can’t stand being alone. I love solitude and silence. But when I come out of it, I’m a regular talking machine. It’s all or nothing for me.” —Celine Dion.
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Jennifer Lawrence: Black hole
“The internet to me is kind of like a black hole, and I never really go on it.” —Jennifer Lawrence.
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Joanna Lumley: Quality time
“It’s so important to keep a marriage alive with small treats and doing little things for each other. Just remembering to say nice things and to have listening time is vital. That ghastly phrase ‘quality time’ means taking three minutes to sit down and be still with someone rather than yelling over your shoulder as…
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Ridley Scott: Probably worshipping the same God
“That’s a heavy word, but picking up a newspaper every day, how can you not despair at what’s happening in the world, and how we’re represented as human beings? The disappointments and corruption are dismaying at every level. And the biggest source of evil is of course religion. Religions are tearing each other apart in…
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Charlize Theron: Chances
“There’s only so much you can do, but if somebody doesn’t give you a chance there is nothing you can do.” —Charlize Theron.
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Sylvester Stallone: Rejection
“I take rejection as someone blowing a bugle in my ear to wake me up and get going, rather than retreat.” —Sylvester Stallone.
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Fergie: Climb that ladder
“There were periods of my life when a lot of people didn’t believe in me. I still had faith in myself. I really had to ask myself life questions. Where do I see myself in five years? Create a ladder for yourself, and walk up the steps. Climb that ladder.” —Fergie.
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Emma Gonzalez: Thirty million
“If the president wants to come up to me and tell me to my face that it was a terrible tragedy and… how nothing is going to be done about it, I’m going to happily ask him how much money he received from the National Rifle Association. It doesn’t matter because I already know. Thirty…
