Author: LINUS FERNANDES
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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…
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Melinda Gates: Population sizes
“When more children live past the age of 5, and when mothers can decide if and when to have children, population sizes don’t go up. They go down. Parents have fewer children when they’re confident those children will survive into adulthood. Big families are in some ways an insurance policy against the tragic likelihood of…
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Mike Pence: Civility in heavy doses
“Years ago on my radio show, I used to say, ‘I’m a conservative, but I’m not in a bad mood about it.’ I’ve always believed that civility in heavy doses is essential in self-government.” —Mike Pence.
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Lena Dunham: Success
“It ‘s very easy for me to say what success is. I think success is connecting with an audience who understands you and having a dialogue with them. I think success is continuing to push yourself forward creatively and not sort of becoming a caricature of yourself. ” —Lena Dunham.
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Jacob Zuma: Criminality
“Criminality is always the result of poverty. Countries that experience such a fundamental change as we have – we had the apartheid regime and must now develop a multicultural democracy – must necessarily pass through a phase of high crime rates.” —Jacob Zuma.
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Satoshi Nakamoto: Root problem with conventional currency
“The root problem with conventional currency is all the trust that’s required to make it work. The central bank must be trusted not to debase the currency, but the history of fiat currencies is full of breaches of that trust. Banks must be trusted to hold our money and transfer it electronically, but they lend…
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Melania Trump: Choosing not to go political
“Because of who my husband is, and our life, and also he is number one in the polls – well, you take that all together, and people are very curious about me. I’m choosing not to go political in public because that is my husband’s job. I’m very political in private life, and between me…
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Ivanka Trump: Scale
“A scale is only in balance for a brief second. Inevitably the pendulum swings. It’s impossible to maintain.” —-Ivanka Trump.
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Jeremy Bentham: Lawyers
“Lawyers are the only persons in whom ignorance of the law is not punished.” —Jeremy Bentham.
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Galileo Galilei: Humble reasoning of a single individual
“In questions of science, the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of a single individual.” —Galileo Galilei.
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Michel de Montaigne: Pleasures and pains
“I conceive that pleasures are to be avoided if greater pains be the consequence, and pains to be coveted that will terminate in greater pleasures.” -Michel de Montaigne.
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Camila Cabello: Three years old
“NO MATTER HOW OLD YOU GET, CRYING IN YOUR MOM’S ARMS WILL ALWAYS MAKE YOU FEEL 3 YEARS OLD” —Camila Cabello.
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Paul Graham: Users
“The least sophisticated users tell you what you need to simplify and clarify while the most sophisticated users tell you what features you need to add.” —Paul Graham.
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Boris Johnson: Chances of being PM
“My chances of being PM are about as good as the chances of finding Elvis on Mars, or my being reincarnated as an olive.” —Boris Johnson.
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Jennifer Lawrence: Other people exist
“Teenagers only have to focus on themselves – its not until we get older that we realize that other people exist.” —Jennifer Lawrence.
