Author: LINUS FERNANDES
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Steve Wynn: People make people happy
“Money doesn’t make people happy. People make people happy.” —Steve Wynn.
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Ben Bernanke: Virtual currencies
“Virtual currencies may hold long-term promise, particularly if the innovations promote a faster, more secure and more efficient payment system.” —Ben Bernanke.
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Jennifer Aniston: Process of raw vulnerability
“Most of us fall in love with someone’s persona and spend the next three to five years discovering who that person really is. If you can stay connected through that process of raw vulnerability, I think you have a shot at the prize of knowing and accepting another human being for who and what they…
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Ciara: Happy life
“If you don’t embrace who you are and accept who you are, you won’t be able to live a happy life.” —Ciara.
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Macklemore: Music is therapy
“Music is therapy. Music moves people. It connects people in ways that no other medium can. It pulls heart strings. It acts as medicine.” —Macklemore.
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Kelsey Grammer: Playing the piano
” Prayer is when you talk to God. Meditation is when you’re listening. Playing the piano allows you to do both at the same time. ” —Kelsey Grammer.
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Katie Price: Autograph
“The people who ask me for my autograph are the people who’ve put me here today, and you can’t afford to forget that.” —Katie Price.
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Clint Eastwood: Respect your efforts
” Respect your efforts, respect yourself. Self-respect leads to self-discipline. When you have both firmly under your belt, that’s real power. ” —Clint Eastwood.
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Trey Gowdy: Being a good senator
“I believe being a good senator requires two things. Number one, acumen. Number two, interest.” —Trey Gowdy.
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Elon Musk: Video games
” To make an embarrassing admission, I like video games. That’s what got me into software engineering when I was a kid. I wanted to make money so I could buy a better computer to play better video games – nothing like saving the world. ” —Elon Musk.
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Taylor Swift: Red
” Red is such an interesting color to correlate with emotion, because it’s on both ends of the spectrum. On one end you have happiness, falling in love, infatuation with someone, passion, all that. On the other end, you’ve got obsession, jealousy, danger, fear, anger and frustration. ” —Taylor Swift.
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Quentin Tarantino: Facebook
“I got into Facebook late, and I think if you get into Facebook late, you tend to use it the right way, as opposed to the people who got into it sooner and friended everybody and now have a thousand friends. I keep it at about 80 or so, and they’re all people I know.…
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Steve Jobs: Work
“Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven’t found it yet, keep looking. Don’t settle. As with…
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Justin Trudeau: I am a teacher
“I am a teacher. It’s how I define myself. A good teacher isn’t someone who gives the answers out to their kids but is understanding of needs and challenges and gives tools to help other people succeed. That’s the way I see myself, so whatever it is that I will do eventually after politics, it’ll…
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Jose Cornado: Draw connections
“It is fundamental to have the ability to draw connections — which may not be readily apparent to others — between different disciplines and problem areas.” —Jose Cornado.
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Taylor Swift: Giving up
“Giving up doesn’t always mean you’re weak. Sometimes you’re just strong enough to let go.” —Taylor Swift.
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Jennifer Aniston: Fun stuff
“The fun stuff comes when someone is not so strict on sticking to the script. You’re allowed the spontaneity, and great moments can happen.” —Jennifer Aniston.
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Jason King: Bitcoin is real
“If you guys want proof Bitcoin is real, send them to me, I’ll cash them out and feed homeless people.” – Jason King.
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Dwayne Johnson: Greatness will come
“Success isn’t always about greatness. It’s about consistency. Consistent hard work leads to success. Greatness will come.” —Dwayne Johnson.
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Mandy Moore: No answers to those questions
“I kind of feel, in a way, all of us will forever be asking those questions of ourselves: Who am I and how do I fit in in the world and what is all this about? Because those aren’t really… there are no answers to those questions, in a sense.” —Mandy Moore.
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Kendrick Lamar: Groups
“Groups break up because they never got across what they wanted to do personally, and they have creative differences, and egos start to clash.” – – —-Kendrick Lamar.
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Elon Musk: Electric cars
“I really do encourage other manufacturers to bring electric cars to market. It’s a good thing, and they need to bring it to market and keep iterating and improving and make better and better electric cars, and that’s what going to result in humanity achieving a sustainable transport future. I wish it was growing faster…
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Melissa McCarthy: Someone who just goes for it
“I love to watch someone who just goes for it and isn’t worried about whether it’s silly or awkward or unflattering. ” —Melissa McCarthy.
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Christie Brinkley: Lunch
“Lunch is a big huge salad with every color in it. From leafy greens to purple to herbs, fresh cut herbs mixed into it for flavors. I vary what I toss into it. Sometimes it might be lentils and chopped tomatoes, other days it could be garbanzo beans, some days I might have just a…
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John F Kelly: Sense of service
” Those with less of a sense of service to the nation never understand it when men and women of character step forward to look danger and adversity straight in the eye, refusing to blink, or give ground, even to their own deaths. The protected can’t begin to understand the price paid so they and…
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Julian Assange: Journalism
“Journalism should be more like science. As far as possible, facts should be verifiable. If journalists want long-term credibility for their profession, they have to go in that direction. Have more respect for readers.” —Julian Assange.
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Bob Marley: Redemption
“If you’re white and you’re wrong, then you’re wrong; if you’re black and you’re wrong, you’re wrong. People are people. Black, blue, pink, green – God make no rules about color; only society make rules where my people suffer, and that why we must have redemption and redemption now.” —Bob Marley.
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Charles Dickens: Construction and creation
“The whole difference between construction and creation is exactly this: that a thing constructed can only be loved after it is constructed; but a thing created is loved before it exists.” —Charles Dickens.
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Sinclair Lewis: Measured merriment
“Damn the great executives, the men of measured merriment, damn the men with careful smiles oh, damn their measured merriment.” —Sinclair Lewis.
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Charles Dickens: Heart, temper, touch
“Have a heart that never hardens, and a temper that never tires, and a touch that never hurts.” —Charles Dickens.
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Marc Andreesen: Change what you’re doing
“If you’re unhappy, you should change what you’re doing.” —Marc Andreesen.
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Anna Soubry: Proven track record
“We need somebody with a proven track record of competence, leadership and what you see is what you get.” —Anna Soubry.
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Angela Saini: Narratives
“As Charles Darwin’s work in the nineteenth century proves, the narratives have often been shaped by the attitudes of the time. Even he, the father of evolutionary biology, was so affected by a culture of sexism that he believed women to be the intellectually inferior sex.” —Angela Saini, Inferior: How Science Got Women Wrong—and the…
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Michelle Moran: Can’t change the desert
“You can’t change the desert. You can only take the fastest course through it. Wishing it’s an oasis won’t make it so…” —Michelle Moran, Nefertiti.
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Jennifer Aniston: Friends
“Where would you be without friends? The people to pick you up when you need lifting? We come from homes far from perfect, so you end up almost parent and sibling to your friends – your own chosen family. There’s nothing like a really loyal, dependable, good friend. Nothing.” —Jennifer Aniston.
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Bella Hadid: Work ethic
“I think that a work ethic is not only one of the most attractive things in a woman, but it’s one of the most humbling things to be a woman and to be completely independent.” —Bella Hadid.
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Anupam Kher: Friends first
“It’s important for couples to be friends first and to respect each other as individuals.” —Anupam Kher.
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David Byrne: Form of love
“Sometimes it’s a form of love just to talk to somebody that you have nothing in common with and still be fascinated by their presence.” —David Byrne.
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Natalie Wood: So technological
“Today’s films are so technological that an actor becomes starved for roles that deal with human relationships.” —Natalie Wood.
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Jennifer Aniston: Whole fashion thing
“I almost resent the whole fashion thing. Good God- never wearing the same thing twice and all of those things. It’s a pain in the ass.” —Jennifer Aniston.
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Elon Musk: Most dangerous experiment in history
“We’re running the most dangerous experiment in history right now, which is to see how much carbon dioxide the atmosphere… can handle before there is an environmental catastrophe.” —Elon Musk.
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Emily Chang: Matter of years
“The payouts of A-list actors and the wolves of Wall Street just aren’t that impressive among the Silicon Valley elite. Managing directors at top-tier investment banks may pocket a million a year and be worth tens of millions after a long career. Early employees at tech firms like Uber, Airbnb, and Snapchat can make many…
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Marc Andreesen: Self-driving cars
“Google is working on self-driving cars, and they seem to work. People are so bad at driving cars that computers don’t have to be that good to be much better.” —Marc Andreesen.
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Michael Bolton: Legacy
“You’re presuming too much by using the word legacy – presuming that someone is going to care.” —Michael Bolton.
