Author: LINUS FERNANDES
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Cardi B: Passion
“I have a passion for music, I love music. But I also have a passion for money and paying my bills.” — Cardi B.
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Anna Wintour: Take risks
“It’s very important to take risks. I think that research is very important, but in the end you have to work from your instinct and feeling and take those risks and be fearless. When I hear a company is being run by a team, my heart sinks, because you need to have that leader with…
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Jeff Bezos: Branding
“A brand for a company is like a reputation for a person. You earn reputation by trying to do hard things well.” —Jeff Bezos.
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Rupi Kaur: Every time you tell your daughter
“Every time you tell your daughter you yell at her out of love you teach her to confuse anger with kindness which seems like a good idea till she grows up to trust men who hurt her cause they look so much like you.” —Rupi Kaur.
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Henri Frederic Amiel: Never decides
“The person who insists upon seeing with perfect clearness before he or she decides, never decides.” –Henri Frederic Amiel.
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Jennifer Garner: Flip side to it
“Well, you can’t be trying to achieve success of any kind in this business without accepting that there’s going to be a flip side to it.” —Jennifer Garner.
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Jennifer Aniston: Brick walls
“People who avoid the brick walls – all power to ya, but we all have to hit them sometimes in order to push through to the next level, to evolve.” —Jennifer Aniston.
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Johnny Weir: Nobody’s perfect
“Nobody gets lucky all the time. Nobody can win all the time. Nobody’s a robot. Nobody’s perfect.” —Johnny Weir.
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Sonam Kapoor: Style
“Style is an expression of your individuality. Who you are and what your mood is, is what you wear.” – – – Sonam Kapoor.
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Elon Musk: Mars
“If humanity doesn’t land on Mars in my lifetime, I would be very disappointed.” —Elon Musk.
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Helen George: Loneliness
“Everybody experiences loneliness. I’ve had times when I’ve been working away and not known anybody and you get a bit nervous around new people. I think loneliness is a killer of confidence. The thought of going out of your way to speak to someone. Especially living in cities, watching the big city get bigger and…
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Miley Cyrus: Stop giving them something to talk about
“You can’t stop people from talking about you, but you can stop giving them something to talk about.” —Miley Cyrus.
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Eric Clapton: Rest of the evening
“I’d love to knock an audience cold with one note, but what do you do for the rest of the evening?” —Eric Clapton.
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Charles Darwin: Ignorance
“Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge: it is those who know little, and not those who know much, who so positively assert that this or that problem will never be solved by science.” —Charles Darwin.
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Sonakshi Sinha: Broken the mould
“I think I have broken the mould that actresses have to be extremely thin on screen. All those who are making my weight an issue just prove that people are jealous. These are people who have nothing to do in life except to stare at their computer screens and make comments on us.” —-Sonakshi Sinha.
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Sonam Kapoor: Imperfect rather than perfect
“I think every single imperfection adds to your beauty. I’d rather be imperfect than perfect.” —Sonam Kapoor.
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Marcus Aurelius: Retreat
“People look for retreats for themselves, in the country, by the coast, or in the hills. There is nowhere that a person can find a more peaceful and trouble-free retreat than in his own mind. . . . So constantly give yourself this retreat, and renew yourself.” —Marcus Aurelius.
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James Hogg: Religion
“Religion is a sublime and glorious thing, the bond of society on earth, and the connector of humanity with the Divine nature; but there is nothing so dangerous to man as the wresting of its principles, or forcing them beyond their due bounds: this is above all others the readiest way to destruction.” —James Hogg.
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Charlotte Dawson: Pain
“Some people think to be strong is to never feel pain. However the strongest people are the ones that have felt pain, understood it, accepted it and learned from it.” —Charlotte Dawson.
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Bob Hawke: Stupid economics
“I think it is just stupid economics for a government to approach economic management from a strand of thinking regarding unions as enemies.” —Bob Hawke.
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Tyler Shaw: Dizzy
“A friend and I were talking about how I don’t like carnival rides that make me dizzy. I looked up from the conversation and thought, ‘Dizzy – that sounds like a great title for a song.’ The next day, I went into the studio with some co-writers, and we wrote that song.” — Tyler Shaw.
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Freddie Mercury: Theatrical event
“A concert is not a live rendition of our album. It’s a theatrical event.” —Freddie Mercury.
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Ingmar Bergman: Improvise
“Only someone who is well prepared has the opportunity to improvise.” —Ingmar Bergman.
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Smari McCarthy: Financial speculation
“We are spending tens or maybe hundreds of megawatts on producing something (Bitcoin) that has no tangible existence and no real use for humans outside the realm of financial speculation. That can’t be good.” —Smari McCarthy on Iceland’s burgeoning energy spending on mining Bitcoins.
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Jennifer Aniston: Will I survive?
“We’re all human beings at the end of the day, whether we’re a waitress or a baker or a student or whatever we are, at the end of the day you kind of can hit walls and think I can’t go any farther. Or this is too much. My heart can’t take it or the…
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Jennifer Garner: Don’t fix
“My mom gave me a good piece of advice. She said never marry a man thinking you can change him, and I think that starts from your first date when you’re in the seventh grade onwards. Women are fixers so we have to just not fix. Don’t fix.” —Jennifer Garner.
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Richard A Clarke: Just as insecure
“The U.S. military is no more capable of operating without the Internet than Amazon.com would be. Logistics, command and control, fleet positioning, everything down to targeting, all rely on software and other Internet-related technologies. And all of it is just as insecure as your home computer, because it is all based on the same flawed…
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Asma Jahangir: Eventually
“Eventually things will have to get better. However, the way they will improve is not going to be because of the government or the elite leadership, or the political leadership, or the institutions of our country, most of which have actually crumbled. It will be the people of the country themselves who will bring about…
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Kamal Haasan: Actors can be refined
“Actors can be refined and be better. I’m an improved version of whatever you’ve seen earlier. I do not say this with arrogance, but it is my duty to be better than my predecessor and it’s my duty to see that my successor is better than me.” —Kamal Haasan.
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Sheikh Hasina: Religion of peace
“I want to ask those who are aiding terror, what do you get by taking innocent lives? Islam is a religion of peace; you are maligning its name.” —Sheikh Hasina.
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Abraham Lincoln: Sheep, shepherd and wolf
“The shepherd drives the wolf from the sheep’s for which the sheep thanks the shepherd as his liberator, while the wolf denounces him for the same act as the destroyer of liberty. Plainly, the sheep and the wolf are not agreed upon a definition of liberty.” —Abraham Lincoln.
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Jennifer Garner: Dinosaur
“I want flowers; I don’t want to text. What does that make me? What kind of dinosaur am I?” —Jennifer Garner.
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Richard Branson: Business opportunities
“Business opportunities are like buses, there’s always another one coming.” —Richard Branson.
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Phillip Adams: Diabolical
” Advertising men and politicians are dangerous if they are separated. Together they are diabolical. ” —Phillip Adams.
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Kelly Ripa: Pancakes
“I think children are like pancakes. You sort of ruin the first one, and you get better at it the second time around.” —Kelly Ripa.
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Ryan Seacrest: Simplicity that is crucial
“As much as we all talk about the future and how so many things are merging, there is a simplicity that is crucial.” —Ryan Seacrest.
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Johnny Weir: Love myself I do
“Love myself I do. Not everything, but I love the good as well as the bad. I love my crazy lifestyle, and I love my hard discipline. I love my freedom of speech and the way my eyes get dark when I’m tired. I love that I have learned to trust people with my heart,…
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Kim Cattrall: Sit and breathe and unwind
“I’ve learned that I can’t have a packed work schedule and a packed social schedule and a packed personal life; I need to just have time to myself to sit and breathe and unwind.” —Kim Cattrall.
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Jimmy Fallon: Photogenic
“Thank you, people who say ‘Wow, you’re really photogenic,’ for not saying what you really mean: ‘Wow, you’re really ugly in person.’” —Jimmy Fallon.
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Rajnikanth: Prosperity
“A greedy man and an angry woman have never lived prosperously.” ––Rajinikanth.
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Chris Pirillo: Passwords
“Passwords are like underwear: you don’t let people see it, you should change it very often, and you shouldn’t share it with strangers.” ––Chris Pirillo.
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Gary Vaynerchuk: Response from me
“Eighty-five per cent of the crowd is going to fall in love with me – they’re going to feel it, wow. But fifteen per cent are going to think, ‘This guy is obnoxious.’ I spend enormous time with them – every negative review of ‘Crush It!’ on Amazon has a response from me – and…
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Elon Musk: Path to CEO’s office
“The path to the CEO’s office should not be through the CFO’s office, and it should not be through the marketing department. It needs to be through engineering and design.” —Elon Musk.
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Paul Rudd: Cut-and-dried
“Nothing is ever cut-and-dried. There’s anguish behind everything.” – —Paul Rudd.
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Sarah Jessica Parker: So many….
“So many roads. So many detours. So many choices. So many mistakes.” – – – Sarah Jessica Parker.
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Jennifer Aniston: Tabloids
“The tabloids, instead of being about alien babies and stuff, it’s my triplets, quadruplets, marriages, feuds.” —Jennifer Aniston.
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Thomas Alva Edison: Greatest weakness
“Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time.” —Thomas Alva Edison.
