Author: LINUS FERNANDES
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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.
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Tom DeMarco: Unreasonable expectation
“If you’ve been in the software business for any time at all, you know that there are certain common problems that plague one project after another. Missed schedules and creeping requirements are not things that just happen to you once and then go away, never to appear again. Rather, they are part of the territory.…
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Bertrand Russell: Nervous breakdown
“One of the symptoms of approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one’s work is terribly important.” – Bertrand Russell.
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Matthew Hussey: Pain
“Remember, the pain of rejection is nothing compared to the pain of regret.” —Matthew Hussey.
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Richard Clarke: IT security
“If you spend more on coffee than on IT security, you will be hacked. What’s more, you deserve to be hacked.” —Richard Clarke.
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Camila Cabello: Dreams bigger than fears
“I am so proud to be Cuban-Mexican. This country was built on immigrants. People who were brave enough to start over. How strong we are to leave behind everything we know in hopes of something better. We are not fearless, we just have dreams bigger than our fears. We jump. We run. We swim, we…
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Sebastian Kurz: Gets better with each passing day
“We are who we are. People who are older have the advantage of more experience. But you don’t have to despair just because you’re young. If young age is the problem, you can take comfort in the fact that it gets better with each passing day.” —Sebastian Kurz.
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Rob Delaney: As I experience it
“With Twitter, you just want to make people laugh in their meeting; on stage, people have paid for their tickets with their hard-earned money, so I owe them the truth as I experience it.” —Rob Delaney.
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Amal Clooney: Pragmatic
“Protecting free speech is not only a matter of principle, it is also pragmatic.” —Amal Clooney.
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George Clooney: Personal life
“I don’t like to share my personal life… it wouldn’t be personal if I shared it.” —George Clooney.
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Robert Wagner: Law changed
“I wish there was some way to get the law changed. They can write anything about you after you’re deceased and there’s nothing you can do about it.” —Robert Wagner.
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Hillary Clinton: Families will flourish
“If women are healthy and educated, their families will flourish. If women are free from violence, their families will flourish. If women have a chance to work and earn as full and equal partners in society, their families will flourish. And when families flourish, communities and nations will flourish.” —Hillary Clinton.
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Kaiser Wilhelm: Beer
“Give me a woman who loves beer and I will conquer the world.” —Kaiser Wilhelm.
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Taylor Swift: Fearless
‘To me, “FEARLESS” is not the absence of fear. It’s not being completely unafraid. To me, FEARLESS is having fears. FEARLESS is having doubts. Lots of them. To me, FEARLESS is living in spite of those things that scare you to death. FEARLESS is falling madly in love again, even though you’ve been hurt before.…
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David Copperfield: Magicians
“Magicians lose the opportunity to experience a sense of wonder.” —David Copperfield.
