Author: LINUS FERNANDES
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Simon Sinek: Knowledge
“It doesn’t matter how much we know. What matters is how clearly others can understand what we know.“ —Simon Sinek.
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Ed Sheeran: Ex-friendly
“Whenever you have an ex, and they’re like, ‘I hope we can still be friends!’ and you weren’t friends before you started dating, then what do you go back to, really?” —Ed Sheeran.
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Missy Higgins: Line from Spiderman
“My dad always said to me that with fame comes great responsibility, which has always stuck with me, even though I think he stole that line from Spiderman.” —Missy Higgins.
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James Maslow: Kind of fun
“Look, every guy is nervous when they talk to girls, but I find that little bit of nervousness to be kind of fun.” – —James Maslow.
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Rahul Gandhi: Rising tide
“A rising tide doesn’t raise people who don’t have a boat. We have to build the boat for them. We have to give them the basic infrastructure to rise with the tide.” —Rahul Gandhi.
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Jagjit Singh: Thought content of ghazals
“The thought content of ghazals must be meaningful, related to life, it’s emotions of joy and sorrow. It must have the human touch, it should not be phoney.” —Jagjit Singh.
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Dr. Zakir Hussain: Aim of a student’s life
“The aim of a student’s life should be to overcome any illusions or prejudices he may have and to give up mean habits. He should, and it is his duty to, propagate education among his illiterate brothers and to consider the propagation of education as part of his own education. He ought to acquire knowledge…
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Elon Musk: Baking a cake
“If you’re trying to create a company, it’s like baking a cake. You have to have all the ingredients in the right proportion.” —Elon Musk.
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James Baldwin: Most ferocious enemy
“It is certain, in any case, that ignorance, allied with power, is the most ferocious enemy justice can have.” —James Baldwin.
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Maria Popova: We can do better
“With increasing regularity, I’m reminded of what a cesspool of reactionary self-righteousness social media can be, how ill-considered people’s opinions are, how bereft of historical context and impoverished of nuance. We can do better.” —Maria Popova.
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Nancy Pelosi: Think of an economy
“Think of an economy where people could be an artist or a photographer or a writer without worrying about keeping their day job in order to have health insurance.” —Nancy Pelosi.
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Gerry Adams: Making peace
” Making peace, I have found, is much harder than making war. ” —Gerry Adams.
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Will Smith: Work
“If you’re not willing to work hard, let someone else do it. I’d rather be with someone who does a horrible job, but gives 110% than with someone who does a good job and gives 60%.” —Will Smith.
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Jaden Smith: Rules
“All The Rules In This World Were Made By Someone No Smarter Than You. So Make Your Own.” —Jaden Smith.
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Marlon Brando: Ain’t listening
“An actor’s a guy who, if you ain’t talking about him, ain’t listening.” – – -Marlon Brando.
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Quincy Jones: Harmonious world
“Imagine what a harmonious world it could be if every single person, both young and old shared a little of what he is good at doing.” —Quincy Jones.
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Justin Trudeau: Peoplekind
“We like to say peoplekind, not necessarily mankind. It’s more inclusive.” —Justin Trudeau.
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Elon Musk: Brand
“Brand is just a perception, and perception will match reality over time. Sometimes it will be ahead, other times it will be behind. But brand is simply a collective impression some have about a product.” —Elon Musk.
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Taylor Swift: Relationships
“Relationships are like traffic lights. And I just have this theory that I can only exist in a relationship if it’s a green light.” —Taylor Swift.
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John Ruskin: No such thing as bad weather
“Sunshine is delicious, rain is refreshing, wind braces us up, snow is exhilarating; there is really no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather.” —John Ruskin.
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Jules Verne: A question of time
“Put two ships in the open sea, without wind or tide, and, at last, they will come together. Throw two planets into space, and they will fall one on the other. Place two enemies in the midst of a crowd, and they will inevitably meet; it is a fatality, a question of time; that is…
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Taylor Swift: Every girl’s dream
“I think every girl’s dream is to find a bad boy at the right time, when he wants to not be bad anymore.” —Taylor Swift.
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Stephen Covey: What we are
“In the last analysis, what we are communicates far more eloquently than anything we say or do.” Stephen Covey, educator and speaker.
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Joseph Tussman: What the pupil must learn
“What the pupil must learn, if he learns anything at all, is that the world will do most of the work for you, provided you cooperate with it by identifying how it really works and aligning with those realities. If we do not let the world teach us, it teaches us a lesson.” — Joseph…
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Priyanka Chopra: Transition
“Any transition is easier if you believe in yourself and your talent.” —Priyanka Chopra.
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Jessica Chastain: Start a conversation
“I’ve a small request, instead of labeling a woman as ’emotionally unstable’ go deeper. What did she endure that led her to this place? We are the sum of our experiences. This is an industry built on power & dominance. She isn’t crazy. Start a conversation & let the healing begin.” —Jessica Chastain.
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Taylor Swift: Relativity
“When you are missing someone, time seems to move slower, and when I’m falling in love with someone, time seems to be moving faster.” —Taylor Swift.
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Charles Dickens: Nonsense
“I have known a vast quantity of nonsense talked about bad men not looking you in the face. Don’t trust that conventional idea. Dishonesty will stare honesty out of countenance, any day in the week, if there is anything to be got by it.” —-Charles Dickens, novelist (7 Feb 1812-1870).
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Paul Vigna: Blockchain
“The blockchain keeps everyone honest, and a whole layer of banking bureaucracy is removed, lowering costs.” —Paul Vigna.
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Taylor Swift: Boyfriends
“I’m not the girl who always has a boyfriend. I’m the girl who rarely has a boyfriend.” —Taylor Swift.
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Simon Sinek: Value
“Value is not determined by those who set the price. Value is determined by those who choose to pay it.“ —Simon Sinek.
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Abhishek Bachchan: Just a state of mind
“A birthday is just another day where you go to work and people give you love. Age is just a state of mind, and you are as old as you think you are. You have to count your blessings and be happy.” —Abhishek Bachchan.
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Tammy Duckworth: Both a negative and positive
“When I first ran, being a woman in politics was seen as both a negative and also a positive. You could attract more women voters, but on the other hand, a lot of men wouldn’t vote for you.” —Tammy Duckworth.
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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.…
