Author: LINUS FERNANDES
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Rachel McAdams: Kissing
“A kiss with anyone, on or off camera, can be intimidating. I’ve been kissing for nearly two decades now, and I’m always convinced I’m not doing it right. Chemistry is so important in a great kiss. You can act your way through anything, but it’s hard with a kiss.” —Rachel McAdams. Read more at: https://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/rachel_mcadams_436938
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Rachel Weisz: Comedians
“It’s also that comedians don’t have the kind of narcissism that actors have. They’re writers who perform their own material. It’s more interesting. And they’re sexy because they risk more. Stand-up comedians risk more than anyone.” —Rachel Weisz.
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Jennifer Aniston: Don’t rely on men
“Don’t rely on men but don’t shun them either.” —Jennifer Aniston.
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Elizabeth Blackwell: Woman physician
“A blank wall of social and professional antagonism faces the woman physician that forms a situation of singular and painful loneliness, leaving her without support, respect or professional counsel.” —Elizabeth Blackwell.
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Noni Hazelhurst: Cause of unity
“There are plenty of vigorous advocates for the cause of division. I’m a vigorous advocate for the cause of unity.” —Noni Hazelhurst.
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Marcus Aurelius: Action by action
“You have to assemble your life yourself—action by action. And be satisfied if each one achieves its goal, as far as it can. No one can keep that from happening. —But there are external obstacles.… Not to behaving with justice, self-control, and good sense. —Well, but perhaps to some more concrete action. But if you…
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Marcus Aurelius: People, our proper occupation
“In a sense, people are our proper occupation. Our job is to do them good and put up with them. But when they obstruct our proper tasks, they become irrelevant to us—like sun, wind, animals. Our actions may be impeded by them, but there can be no impeding our intentions or our dispositions. Because we…
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Joseph McCarthy: American life
“American life, in large cities, is a perpetual assault on the senses and the nerves; it is out of asceticism, out of unworldliness, precisely, that we bear it.” —Joseph McCarthy.
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Justin Timberlake: Blessings
“I was raised in a very humble environment, and I was always taught to be humble to the things that are happening in my life because they’re blessings. They’re blessings in every way. Whether you’re able to help someone get through a tough time in their life through your music or through comedy, or whatever…
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Julie Bowen: Tiny
“Women in Hollywood are tiny, but women in soap operas are the tiniest people alive!” —Julie Bowen.
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Natalie Wood: Changing a man
“The only time a woman really succeeds in changing a man is when he is a baby.” —Natalie Wood.
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Phil Zimmermann: Privacy
“If privacy is outlawed, only outlaws will have privacy.” —Phil Zimmermann.
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Mark Gatiss: Grotesque people
“I think one of the few faults in Dickens is that mostly his lead characters are blanks – who is David Copperfield, who is Oliver Twist? And yet he takes such joy in populating the rest of his novels with these fantastic, grotesque people like Pecksmith and so on.” —Mark Gatiss.
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Steven Moffat: Intelligence in your audience
“I can’t see what’s wrong about assuming intelligence in your audience and what’s bad news about being rewarded for assuming that.” —Steven Moffat.
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Emraan Hashmi: Nepotism
“Yes, nepotism exists in the industry and I got a break because of it.” —Emraan Hashmi.
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Christopher Walken: Public image
“You know, there’s nothing you can do about your public image. It is what it is. I just try to do things honestly. I guess honesty is what you would call subjective: if you feel good about what you’re doing, yourself, if you figure you’re doing the right thing.” —Christopher Walken.
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Britney Spears: Daisy Duck
“If I was to pick a cartoon character I am most like, I would say Daisy Duck because she is very stubborn, she has a very feminine sense, and she knows what she likes.” —Britney Spears.
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Sofia Vergara: I’m blonde
“Yes, I’m blonde. When I started as an actor, because of the accent and my body and my personality, it was not what the stereotype of the Latina woman in Hollywood is, so they didn’t know where to put me. The blond hair wasn’t matching. The moment I put my hair dark, it was better…
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Melania Trump: Best possible education
“You judge a society by how it treats its citizens. We must do our best to ensure that every child can live in comfort and security, with the best possible education.” —Melania Trump.
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Zac Efron: Be open and receptive
“You always have something to learn from people who have been through more than you. Be open and receptive to what they know.” —Zac Efron.
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Gertrude Stein: Common sense
“Everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense.” —Gertrude Stein.
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Walter Bagehot: Vices and temptations
“It is good to be without vices, but it is not good to be without temptations.” —Walter Bagehot.
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Anna Freud: Creative minds
“Creative minds have always been known to survive any kind of bad training.” – Anna Freud.
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Erik Voorhees: Useful and scarce
“Economists and journalists often get caught up in this question: Why does Bitcoin have value? And the answer is very easy. Because it is useful and scarce.” —Erik Voorhees.
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Sidharth Malhotra: Future of filmmaking
“The future of filmmaking is to make the canvas bigger, something you can’t enjoy on your phones or computers.” —Sidharth Malhotra.
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Jessica Biel: Always been physical
“I’ve always been physical. I have no concept of what life is like without physical activity.” —Jessica Biel.
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Melania Trump: You cannot change a person
“You cannot change a person. Let them be. Let them be the way they are.” —Melania Trump.
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Britney Spears: Amazing feeling
“With love, you should go ahead and take the risk of getting hurt… because love is an amazing feeling.” —Britney Spears.
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Liam Neeson: Rejection
“For every successful actor or actress, there are countless numbers who don’t make it. The name of the game is rejection. You go to an audition and you’re told you’re too tall or you’re too Irish or your nose is not quite right. You’re rejected for your education, you’re rejected for this or that and…
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Helen Mirren: Completely accidental and random
“I don’t believe that if you do good, good things will happen. Everything is completely accidental and random. Sometimes bad things happen to very good people and sometimes good things happen to bad people. But at least if you try to do good things, then you’re spending your time doing something worthwhile.” —Helen Mirren.
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Harry Styles: Good flirt
“I think you have to be cool to be a good flirt, and I don’t think I’m very cool.” —Harry Styles.
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Fidel Castro: Fundamental principle of criminal law
“It is a fundamental principle of criminal law that an imputed offense must correspond exactly to the type of crime described by law. If no law applies exactly to the point in question, then there is no offense.” —-Fidel Castro.
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Stan Lee: Spider-man
“I never thought that Spider-Man would become the world wide icon that he is. I just hoped the books would sell and I’d keep my job.” —Stan Lee, interview, March 13, 2006.
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Michelle Obama: It is odd
“It is odd because now I have a door and a doorbell and people actually trip out when I come to my door and I open it and the dogs, Bo and Sunny, don’t know what a doorbell is. So, the doorbell rings and they’re like, ‘I’ve never heard that before.‘” —Michelle Obama on life…
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Langston Hughes: Jazz
“Jazz , to me, is one of the inherent expressions of Negro life in America: the eternal tom-tom beating in the Negro soul – the tom-tom of revolt against weariness in a white world, a world of subway trains, and work, work, work; the tom-tom of joy and laughter, and pain swallowed in a smile.…
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Melania Trump: Everyone wants change
“Everyone wants change. Donald is the only one that can deliver it. We should not be satisfied with stagnation.” —Melania Trump.
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St. Brigid: I should like…
“I should like a great lake of beer for the King of Kings. I should like the angels of Heaven to be drinking it through time eternal. I should like excellent meats of belief and pure piety. I should like the men of Heaven at my house. I should like barrels of peace at their…
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Britney Spears: Success
“For me, success is a state of mind. I feel like success isn’t about conquering something; it’s being happy with who you are.” —Britney Spears.
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Jim Carrey: Desperation
“Desperation is a necessary ingredient to learning anything, or creating anything. Period. If you ain’t desperate at some point, you ain’t interesting.” —Jim Carrey.
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Celine Dion: Look within yourself
“The hardest thing to find in life is balance – especially the more success you have, the more you look to the other side of the gate. What do I need to stay grounded, in touch, in love, connected, emotionally balanced? Look within yourself. ” —Celine Dion.
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Rita Ora: Women love an honest man
“Women love an honest man. An honest man that isn’t afraid to say, ‘Men get hurt too.’ And a lot of men don’t admit that. ” —Rita Ora.
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Tomi Lahren: Echo chamber
“To exist in an echo chamber and only talk to people with whom we agree is fruitless.” —Tomi Lahren.
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Frederick Douglass: Freedom and agitation
“Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet depreciate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground.” —Frederick Douglass.
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Kate Upton: Pick-up lines
“I just think that pick-up lines in general are horrible. None of them work.” —Kate Upton.
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Ayn Rand: Contradictions
“Contradictions do not exist. Whenever you think you are facing a contradiction, check your premises. You will find that one of them is wrong.” —Ayn Rand.
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Shakira: Respect and affection
“My team and I have reunited two elements that coexist with difficulty: respect and affection, because when they love you they don’t respect you and when they respect you they don’t love you.” —Shakira.
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Ellen DeGeneres: Emote
“Laugh. Laugh as much as you can. Laugh until you cry. Cry until you laugh. Keep doing it even if people are passing you on the street saying, ‘I can’t tell if that person is laughing or crying, but either way they seem crazy, let’s walk faster.’ Emote. It’s okay. It shows you are thinking…
