Author: LINUS FERNANDES
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Jimmy Kimmel: There’s nothing we can do about that
“When someone with a beard attacks us, we tap phones, we invoke travel bans, we build walls, we take every precaution to make sure it doesn’t happen again. When an American buys a gun and kills other Americans, we say there’s nothing we can do about that.” —Jimmy Kimmel.
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Jay Parini: Plenitude of books
“Each year in early spring, during the season of Lent, which begins on Ash Wednesday and concludes on Easter, a plenitude of books, magazine articles, and television shows about Jesus appear.” —Jay Parini.
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Paul Graham: Expertise
“What you need to succeed in a startup is not expertise in startups. What you need is expertise in your own users.” —Paul Graham.
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Justin Timberlake: Words will fade
“Your critics do not count. Their words will fade. You won’t.” – Justin Timberlake.
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Marc Andreesen: Four-sided network effect
‘In fact, Bitcoin is a four-sided network effect. There are four constituencies that participate in expanding the value of Bitcoin as a consequence of their own self-interested participation. Those constituencies are (1) consumers who pay with Bitcoin, (2) merchants who accept Bitcoin, (3) “miners” who run the computers that process and validate all the transactions…
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Helen Rowland: Weakness
“A man always mistakes a woman’s clinging devotion for weakness, until he discovers that it requires the strength of Samson, the patience of Job, and the finesse of Solomon to untwine it.” —Helen Rowland.
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Elizabeth Wurtzel: Watch your back
“It’s like Samson and Delilah: watch your back, because trouble could be the person you’re sleeping with.” —Elizabeth Wurtzel.
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Angelina Jolie: Diversity
“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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Brad Pitt: Most beautiful thing in the world
” When you see a person, do you just concentrate on their looks? It’s just a first impression. Then there’s someone who doesn’t catch your eye immediately, but you talk to them and they become the most beautiful thing in the world. The greatest actors aren’t what you would call beautiful sex symbols. ” —Brad…
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Justin Timberlake: I’m not cool
“Listen, I’m not cool. Being cool is about keeping your blood pressure steady. So no. Don’t be cool. Be passionate. Be dedicated. Be tenacious. Be uncompromising. Be pissed. Be happy. Be sad.” – Justin Timberlake.
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Warren Buffett: Clearer than the windshield
“In the business world, the rearview mirror is always clearer than the windshield.” —Warren Buffett.
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Bill Gates: Just a tool
“Technology is just a tool. In terms of getting the kids working together and motivating them, the teacher is the most important.” —Bill Gates.
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Warren Buffett: Some things just take time
“No matter how great the talent or efforts, some things just take time. You can’t produce a baby in one month by getting nine women pregnant.” —Warren Buffett.
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Ivanka Trump: No substitute for passion
“Love what you do. There’s always going to be someone else who’s smarter than you, but there’s no substitute for passion. People who are passionate always work the hardest, and that sets them apart.” —Ivanka Trump.
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Simon Sinek: Value of our lives
“The value of our lives is not determined by what we do for ourselves. The value of our lives is determined by what we do for others.“ —Simon Sinek.
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Ciara: Grass is always greener
“When you believe in yourself, and you always give 100% in a relationship, you’re very confident in the value of your love. But for some people, there’s that feeling that the grass is always greener.” —Ciara.
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Justin Theroux: Motorcycle rides
“The best way for guys to communicate is just don’t talk to each other for nine hours. That’s why I like long motorcycle rides. It’s a great way for guys to socialize and not socialize.” —Justin Theroux.
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Jennifer Aniston: Not really gambling
“Oh, it’s not really gambling when you never lose.” —Jennifer Aniston.
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Bill Gates: Part of everyday life
“The advance of technology is based on making it fit in so that you don’t really even notice it, so it’s part of everyday life.” —Bill Gates.
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Subhas Chandra Bose: Thousand lives
“One individual may die for an idea, but that idea will, after his death, incarnate itself in a thousand lives.” —Subhas Chandra Bose.
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Vijay Mallya: Young demographic
“One of India’s biggest advantages is our young demographic and that we have a youthful population that is indeed our future.” —Vijay Mallya.
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Christian Bale: All that attention
“A teenager usually wants to try to get people to notice him in some way, to feel like someone gives a damn. Me, all that attention, I just wanted to fade into the background. Be invisible. Disappear.” —Christian Bale.
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Camila Cabello: These are the moments
“These are the moments. These are the moments where you realize love is everywhere if you look closely. When you realize happiness isn’t next weekend, and it’s not last week, it’s right now. That was one of the best nights of my life. It felt good to know purpose. I lay in my bunk and…
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Ed Sheeran: Powerful tool
“Music is a powerful tool in galvanizing people around an issue. There’s no better way to get your point across than to put it in a beautiful song.” —Ed Sheeran.
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Hillary Clinton: 4 billion cell phones
“There are 4 billion cell phones in use today. Many of them are in the hands of market vendors, rickshaw drivers, and others who’ve historically lacked access to education and opportunity. Information networks have become a great leveler, and we should use them together to help lift people out of poverty and give them a…
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Kristen Bell: Reinvention of the word geek
“I’m a geek who loves fashion. There’s been a reinvention of the word geek. It means being passionate about anything that’s under the radar or sort of frowned upon, like Comic-Con.” —Kristen Bell.
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Angelina Jolie: Box you’ve been raised in
“If you don’t get out of the box you’ve been raised in, you won’t understand how much bigger the world is.” ― Angelina Jolie
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Carl Icahn: Vendetta as investment strategy
“When you have no one to answer to, vendetta as investment strategy is as legitimate as anything.” —Carl Icahn.
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Kim Jong II: Untidy plot
“A film with an untidy plot cannot grip the audience and define their emotional response.” —Kim Jong II.
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Hassan Rouhani: Unilateral sanctions
“We believe that unilateral sanctions violate international law, in fact. They violate free trade. They violate human growth and development, human development, and that when you actually sanction a bank of a country, the meaning of it is quite clear. You’re sanctioning medicine for the people.” —Hassan Rouhani.
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Angelina Jolie: Comforting
“There’s something about death that is comforting. The thought that you could die tomorrow frees you to appreciate your life now.” —Angelina Jolie.
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Blaise Pascal: Virtue
“The virtue of a person is measured not by his outstanding efforts, but by his everyday behavior.” -Blaise Pascal.
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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.
