Author: LINUS FERNANDES
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Carrie Fisher: Spy in the house of me
“I am a spy in the house of me. I report back from the front lines of the battle that is me. I am somewhat nonplused by the event that is my life.” —Carrie Fisher.
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Oscar Darmawan: Bitcoin technology
“I really believe that Blockchain technology will eventually change the way system works. Centralized architecture will soon be over and replaced by a decentralized one, like how the absolute monarchy has been replaced with democracy. People are getting smarter and they begin to realize their own rights.” —Oscar Darmawan.
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Richard Branson: Fun
“Fun is one of the most important – and underrated – ingredients in any successful venture. If you’re not having fun, then it’s probably time to call it quits and try something else.” —Richard Branson.
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Diane Kruger: Challenge yourself
“You always have to challenge yourself or else you get soft. Right?” —Diane Kruger.
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Jeremy Bentham: Secrecy
“Secrecy, being an instrument of conspiracy, ought never to be the system of a regular government.” —Jeremy Bentham.
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Carrie Fisher: No motive is pure
“No motive is pure. No one is good or bad-but a hearty mix of both. And sometimes life actually gives to you by taking away.” —Carrie Fisher.
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Vidya Balan: Constant work
“When people would say that marriages need constant work, I always wondered what it meant. Now I know that it means not to take each other for granted.” —Vidya Balan.
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Ralph Fiennes: Tension in relationships
“There is a tension in relationships between wanting to return to the womb, but also wanting to be free. Because sometimes the woman’s attentions can be overly maternal, and you want to go, ‘Ahhhh!’” —Ralph Fiennes.
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Martin Sheen: Personal conscience
“Well , I think that Catholicism’s basic foundation of faith is personal conscience. I think it’s between you and God, not you and the Church.” —Martin Sheen.
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Carrie Fisher: Stay afraid
“Stay afraid, but do it anyway. What’s important is the action. You don’t have to wait to be confident. Just do it and eventually the confidence will follow.” —Carrie Fisher.
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Lavinia Greenlaw: Essex kiss
” A touch as bold as rum and peppermint. Chewing gum and whelks. A whiff of diesel, crocus, cuckoo spit. to Your body will give way like grain, your body will veer smoke over a torched field as the wind takes and turns it. And a closing couplet whose con and pro take their time…
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Camila Cabello: Be a vegetable
“If you don’t want to piss people off, be a vegetable.” —Camila Cabello.
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Charlie Munger: Slug it out
“Spend each day trying to be a little wiser than you were when you woke up. Discharge your duties faithfully and well. Step by step you get ahead, but not necessarily in fast spurts. But you build discipline by preparing for fast spurts…. Slug it out one inch at a time, day by day. At…
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Seth Klarman: Discipline, patience and judgment
“The hard part is discipline, patience, and judgment. Investors need discipline to avoid the many unattractive pitches that are thrown, patience to wait for the right pitch, and judgment to know when it is time to swing.” —Seth Klarman.
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Lexi Cubbins: I’ll have to fire you then
“You know… You’re still my boss… Which means… This is sexual harassment…Oh really? I guess I’ll have to fire you then.” —Lexi Cubbins.
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Shahla Khan: Street harassment
“Practically, speaking up against street harassment is not about being a hero, getting credit points to be in the good books of a girl or a chance to impress anyone. It is about making sure that everyone has the right to enjoy that spring breeze, golden clouds and chirping without feeling uncomfortable.” —Shahla Khan.
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Ed Sheeran: Ease into it
“My uncle always said, ‘Hurry slowly.’ I guess [it means] have the intensity of love but don’t rush into it. Have the full feeling but take it slow. Ease into it.” —Ed Sheeran.
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Christiane Amanpour: No respect for viewers
“If we have no respect for our viewers, then how can we have any respect for ourselves and what we do?” —Christiane Amanpour.
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Priyanka Chopra: Flawed
“I think it’s great to be flawed. I am hugely flawed, and I like it this way. That’s the fun of life. You fall, get up, make mistakes, learn from them, be human and be you.” —Priyanka Chopra.
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Warren Buffett: More disciplined
“We don’t have to be smarter than the rest. We have to be more disciplined than the rest.” —Warren Buffett.
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Amitabh Bachchan: Qualitative change
“People are fed up with seeing the same thing over and over. They want a qualitative change.” —Amitabh Bachchan.
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Warren Buffett: Tree shade
“Someone is sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.” —Warren Buffett.
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Kristen Bell: Original
“What was previously perceived as nerdy is now viewed as original. What I like about nerdiness, geekiness, is it doesn’t really matter what you’re into – it just means you’re not a follower.” —Kristen Bell.
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Jeff Bezos: Frugality
“I think frugality drives innovation, just like other constraints do. One of the only ways to get out of a tight box is to invent your way out.” —Jeff Bezos.
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Hillary Clinton: Internet freedom
“Both the American people and nations that censor the internet should understand that our government is committed to helping promote internet freedom.” —Hillary Clinton.
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Bill Gates: Lousy teacher
“Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can’t lose.” —Bill Gates.
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Richard A Clarke: Cognitive biases
” Cognitive biases worked well when rapid pattern recognition and decision making was critical for survival.” —Richard A Clarke.
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Steve Forbes: Tax cut
“The politicians say ‘we’ can’t afford a tax cut. Maybe we can’t afford the politicians.” —Steve Forbes.
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Thomas Keating: Divine therapy
” Lent is a time to renew wherever we are in that process that I call the divine therapy. It’s a time to look what our instinctual needs are, look at what the dynamics of our unconscious are. ” —Thomas Keating.
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Tamara Ecclestone: Fake smile
” I’d rather have a fake smile than a nasty stare. ” —Tamara Ecclestone.
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Robert Graves: She tells her love while half asleep
She tells her love while half asleep by Robert Graves She tells her love while half asleep, In the dark hours, With half-words whispered low: As Earth turns in her winter sleep And puts out grass and flowers Despite the snow, Despite the falling snow.
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Kate Upton: I’m not here to be used
“After my first ‘Sports Illustrated’ cover, I felt terrible about myself for a solid month. People deal with models like they are children. They think they can pull one over on you. I’m not a toy; I’m a human. I’m not here to be used.” —Kate Upton.
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Piers Morgan: Don’t chase women
“Don’t chase women, they will chase you. They are like horses in a pasture: if you don’t go drooling over her, she is going to want to know why.” —Piers Morgan.
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Scott Baio: Five minutes into it
” You can tell five minutes into it what a girl is after, when she starts asking how much money I make or tells me, ‘I wanna be an actress.’ ” —Scott Baio.
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Johnny Weir: Being Johnny Weir
“I want to be judged by who I am, not what I am. I mean, I am Johnny Weir. Judge me the way you see me, love me the way you see me, hate me the way you see me.” —Johnny Weir.
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Millie Bobby Brown: Two hands
“I have two hands: one for me, one for other people.” —Millie Bobby Brown.
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Warren Buffett: Yesterday’s growth
“The investor of today does not profit from yesterday’s growth.” —Warren Buffett.
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Arvind Kejriwal: Politics
“You can’t afford to hate politics. The politics of this country is democracy. Democracy is by the people, of the people and for the people. The day people stop taking active part in the politics of this country, democracy will not survive.” —Arvind Kejriwal.
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DaShanne Stokes: Violence
“Violence isn’t a Democrat or Republican problem. It’s an American problem, requiring an American solution.” —DaShanne Stokes.
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Sunny Leone: Backlash
“The biggest risk I took was in facing the backlash from my community, family, and friends.” — Sunny Leone.
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Angelina Jolie: Fairytales
“The side of fairytales I don’t like is that they always have happy endings, that there’s just good and evil, and things are perfect. But life is a little more complicated, and that’s what I try to teach my kids.” —Angelina Jolie.
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Simon Sinek: Discomfort
“It’s better to endure the discomfort of the truth now than suffer the discomfort of the lie later.“ —Simon Sinek.
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Bill Gates: Seek out different viewpoints
“As much as we try to encourage feedback, we know that some of our critics don’t speak up because these elements don’t want to risk losing money. That means we need to hire well, consult experts, learn constantly, and seek out different viewpoints.” —Bill Gates.
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Melinda Gates: Duties of the president
“I would also say that I believe one of the duties of the president of the United States is to role model American values in the world. I wish our president would treat people, and especially women, with more respect when he speaks and tweets. Equality is an important national principle. The sanctity of each…
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Bill Gates: America First worldview
“More broadly, the America First worldview concerns me. It’s not that the United States shouldn’t look out for its people. The question is how best to do that. My view is that engaging with the world has proven over time to benefit everyone, including Americans, more than withdrawing does. Even if we measured everything the…
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Bill Gates: Recipe for rapid economic development
“When more children live, you get one generation that’s relatively big. Then, when families decide to have fewer children, the next generation is much smaller. Eventually, a country ends up with relatively more people in the labor force producing economically—and relatively fewer dependents (very old or very young people). That’s a recipe for rapid economic…
