Author: LINUS FERNANDES
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Mani Ratnam: Neither language nor culture
“Language is really not so much of a barrier nor are details of a culture which you can learn as you go, but what you’re trying to say is the most important thing.” —Mani Ratnam.
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Richard Branson: Mistakes
“One thing is certain in business. You and everyone around you will make mistakes.” —Richard Branson.
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Elon Musk: Greater collective enlightenment
“Really, the only thing that makes sense is to strive for greater collective enlightenment.” —Elon Musk.
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Rick Falkvinge: Right to attribution
“We safeguard the right to attribution very strongly. After all, what we are fighting for is the intent of copyright as it is described in the US constitution: the promotion of culture. Many artists are using recognition as their primary driving force to create culture.” —Rick Falkvinge.
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Indra Nooyi: Emotional quotient
“When you assume negative intent, you’re angry. If you take away that anger and assume positive intent, you will be amazed. Your emotional quotient goes up because you are no longer almost random in your response.” —Indra Nooyi.
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Richard Branson: Bitcoin
“Well, I think it is working. There may be other currencies like it that may be even better. But in the meantime, there’s a big industry around Bitcoin. — People have made fortunes off Bitcoin, some have lost money. It is volatile, but people make money off of volatility too.” —Richard Branson.
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Henry Cavill: Regrets
“Regrets are something you can’t really have as an actor, because ultimately you’ll end up destroying yourself… there’s a lot of disappointment in this business.” – – – Henry Cavill.
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Quincy Jones: Never leave till it’s done
“Every day, my daddy told me the same thing. ‘Once a task is just begun, never leave it till it’s done. Be the labour great or small, do it well or not at all.’” —Quincy Jones.
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Shah Rukh Khan: Chak De! India
“My father used to play hockey. No one knew I played hockey. Someone offered me a film on hockey, everyone said it was the worst film being made. There is no heroine, the girls are unknown, the songs are bad and I look awful with a beard. It became ‘Chak De! India’. …… It doesn’t…
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Justin Trudeau: Extraordinary individuals
“You can’t run a government from one single person. What instead matters is that leadership be about gathering around extraordinary individuals and getting the best out of them.” —Justin Trudeau.
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Elon Musk: Creating companies
“I don’t create companies for the sake of creating companies, but to get things done.” —Elon Musk.
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Rand Paul: Captivating allure
“Communism can’t survive the captivating allure of capitalism.” —Rand Paul.
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Amrita Singh: Only happens in books
“Like everybody, I too believed that couples lived happily ever after. But it only happens in books.” —Amrita Singh.
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Amy Adams: Positive attitude
“I think a lot of times we don’t pay enough attention to people with a positive attitude because we assume they are naive or stupid or unschooled.” —Amy Adams.
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Hasan Minhaj: Golden age of lying
“We are living in the golden age of lying. Now is the time to be a liar, and Donald Trump is liar in chief.” —Hasan Minhaj.
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Laurie Metcalf: Start from scratch
“When one thing ends, you put it away and start from scratch on the next thing.” —Laurie Metcalf.
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Rick Falkvinge: Bitcoin
“Bitcoin will do to banks what email did to the postal industry.” —Rick Falkvinge.
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Elon Musk: Communicate asynchronously
“I do love email. Wherever possible I try to communicate asynchronously. I’m really good at email.” —Elon Musk.
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Dakota Johnson: No shame
“I don’t have any problem doing anything. The secret is I have no shame.” —-Dakota Johnson.
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Gulzar: Mercury
“When you shake mercury, it keeps trembling until it reaches a point when it stops. When you get me started on Partition, that is how I am. It goes back and keeps shaking me up, on and on.” —Gulzar.
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Jairam Ramesh: Governance
“There never is a good time for tough decisions. There will always be an election or something else. You have to pick courage and do it. Governance is about taking tough, even unpopular, decisions.” —Jairam Ramesh.
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Christopher Walken: Look evil
“I don’t need to be made to look evil. I can do that on my own.” —Christopher Walken.
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Kangana Ranaut: Fearlessness
“I would rather be with someone who gets turned on by my fearlessness. There are very few wild men who love to play with fire and even fewer who would like to tame the wild beast.” —Kangana Ranaut.
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Prince William: Come away from the screen
“Don’t spend all day online. Seriously, don’t. For your mental health, get outside, come away from the screen. By all means, be on a screen but don’t be on it all day because it will only bring you into another world. It’s important that you balance the time.” —Prince William.
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Taraji P Henson: Certain kind of sadness
“Every human walks around with a certain kind of sadness. They may not wear it on their sleeves, but it’s there if you look deep.” —Taraji P. Henson.
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Patrick Young: Alternative currencies
“The governments of the world have spent hundreds and hundreds of trillions of dollars bailing out a decaying, dickensian, outmoded system called banking, when the solution to the future of finance is peer-to-peer. It’s going to be alternative currencies like Bitcoin and it’s not actually going to be a banking system as we had before…
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Taylor Swift: Tiniest little thing
“I think the tiniest little thing can change the course of your day, which can change the course of your year, which can change who you are.” —Taylor Swift.
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George W Bush: Fantastic pictures
“One of the great things about books is sometimes there are some fantastic pictures.” —George W Bush.
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Vladimir Putin: Be lonely
“Sometimes it is necessary to be lonely in order to prove that you are right.” —Vladimir Putin.
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Michael Jackson: Everything can be dealt with
“If you enter this world knowing you are loved and you leave this world knowing the same, then everything that happens in between can be dealt with.” —Michael Jackson.
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Billie Eilish: Games
“The games you played were never fun. You’d say you’d stay but then you’d run.” —Billie Eilish, Bored.
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Simon Sinek: Planners and dreamers
“In weak companies the dreamers are expected to serve the planners. In the great companies the planners feel inspired to serve the dreamers.“ —Simon Sinek.
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Victoria Beckham: Two types of women
“There are two types of women out there: there’s the kind of woman who finds something nice and likes to keep it to herself, and then there’s the other type, which is me, who wants to share.” —Victoria Beckham.
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Nancy Pelosi: Pretty important
“Being the first woman speaker and breaking the marble ceiling is pretty important. Now it’s time to move on.” – – – Nancy Pelosi.
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Taylor Swift: Feelings
” Your feelings so are important to write down, to capture, and to remember because today you’re heartbroken, but tomorrow you’ll be in love again. ” —Taylor Swift.
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George Soros: Unpredictable
“The financial markets generally are unpredictable. So that one has to have different scenarios… The idea that you can actually predict what’s going to happen contradicts my way of looking at the market.” —George Soros.
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Dakota Johnson: Part of a woman
“I think there’s a part of a woman that wants to be the thing that breaks a man down.” —Dakota Johnson.
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Taylor Swift: Out of control
“I think I have a big fear of things spiraling out of control. Out of control and dangerous and reckless and thoughtless scares me, because people get hurt.” —Taylor Swift.
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Halsey: Perfect anything
“So many people are concerned with being the perfect ‘something.’ Whether it’s the perfect singer, the perfect sexy girl, or the perfect feminist. I don’t want to be the perfect anything.” —Halsey.
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Bill Veeck: Winning
“I do not think that winning is the most important thing. I think winning is the only thing.” —Bill Veeck.
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Alice Walker: Wonderful planet
“This is a wonderful planet, and it is being completely destroyed by people who have too much money and power and no empathy.” —Alice Walker.
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Salma Hayek: Never discouraged
“What is important is to believe in something so strongly that you’re never discouraged.” —Salma Hayek.
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Naseeruddin Shah: Talent
“There is no such thing as talent but there is such a thing as lack of talent, and lack of talent occurs when one is not in one’s right place.” —Naseeruddin Shah.
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Taylor Swift: Grow out
“At some point, you grow out of being attracted to that flame that burns you over and over and over again.” —Taylor Swift.
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Friedrich Nietzsche: Strength
“One must need to be strong; otherwise, one never becomes strong.” —Friedrich Nietzsche, philosopher.
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Clint Eastwood: Marriages
“They say marriages are made in Heaven. But so is thunder and lightning.” —Clint Eastwood.
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Reese Witherspoon: All about clothes
“It’s funny that it all becomes about clothes. It’s bizarre. You work your butt off and then you win an award and it’s all about your dress. You can’t get away from it.“. —Reese Witherspoon.
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Captain Basil Henry Liddell Hart: Poise, not pose
Captain Basil Henry Liddell Hart (1895-1970) writing of General Sherman: “Among men who rise to fame and leadership two types are recognizable— those who are born with a belief in themselves and those in whom it is a slow growth dependent on actual achievement. To the men of the last type their own success is…
