Author: LINUS FERNANDES
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Robert Wagner: God’s gifts
“I’ve learned one important thing about God’s gifts – what we do with them is our gift to Him.” —Robert Wagner.
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Gianni Versace: Road to the future
“I am not interested in the past, except as the road to the future.” —Gianni Versace.
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Sandra Cisneros: Tiny little things
“The older I get, the more I’m conscious of ways very small things can make a change in the world. Tiny little things, but the world is made up of tiny matters, isn’t it?” —Sandra Cisneros, writer.
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Melania Trump: Old-fashioned way
“My husband doesn’t text… It’s always phone calls. I like that because you hear the voice the old-fashioned way.” —Melania Trump.
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Jack Ma: Learn other skills
“I told my son: you don’t need to be in the top three in your class, being in the middle is fine, so long as your grades aren’t too bad. Only this kind of person [a middle-of-the-road student] has enough free time to learn other skills.” —Jack Ma.
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Bernie Sanders: Election days
“Election days come and go. But the struggle of the people to create a government which represents all of us and not just the one percent – a government based on the principles of economic, social, racial and environmental justice – that struggle continues.” —Bernie Sanders.
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Kareena Kapoor Khan: High heels
“It’s unarguable that the right shoes can really add elegance to an outfit and to the person who’s wearing them. Take a pair of high heels, for instance. Suddenly, you’re looking taller, shoulders back, body curved.” —Kareena Kapoor Khan.
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Janet Yellen: Housing wealth
“Housing wealth – the net equity held by households, consisting of the value of their homes minus their mortgage debt – is the most important source of wealth for all but those at the very top.” —Janet Yellen.
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Carter G Woodson: Educate them
“In our so-called democracy we are accustomed to give the majority what they want rather than educate them to understand what is best for them.” —Carter G Woodson.
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Tim O’Reilly: Commodity
“Whenever one thing becomes a commodity, humans make something else valuable.” —Tim O’Reilly.
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Meghan Markle: Food makes travel exceptional
“Food makes travel so exceptional, because you get to taste what it’s actually supposed to taste like. To eat the real Pad Thai or finally have a proper curry is something pretty amazing.” —Meghan Markle.
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Marc Kenigsberg: Blockchain and Bitcoin
“Blockchain is the tech. Bitcoin is merely the first mainstream manifestation of its potential.” —Marc Kenigsberg.
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Hope Hicks: Hard work
“There is no substitute for hard work. Never give up. Never stop believing. Never stop fighting.” —Hope Hicks.
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Donnatella Versace: Fashion
“Fashion is all about happiness. It’s fun. It’s important. But it’s not medicine.” —Donnatella Versace.
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Arun Jaitley: Parliamentary obstruction
“Parliament’s job is to conduct discussions. But many a time, Parliament is used to ignore issues, and in such situations, obstruction of Parliament is in the favour of democracy. Therefore, parliamentary obstruction is not undemocratic.” —Arun Jaitley.
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Kalpana Chawla: Whirlpools
“There are so many people who are arguing or fighting over issues which don’t have much relevance. We must all realise it is not worth it. It’s like being in the whirlpools which are always present behind a little rock near a river. We seem to be living in these little whirlpools and forget that…
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Michelle Obama: Standardized test
“If my future were determined just by my performance on a standardized test, I wouldn’t be here. I guarantee you that.” —Michelle Obama.
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Donald Trump: Make work pleasurable
“If you’re interested in ‘balancing’ work and pleasure, stop trying to balance them. Instead make your work more pleasurable.” —Donald Trump.
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Shania Twain: Feather in the wind
“Yes, you can lose somebody overnight, yes, your whole life can be turned upside down. Life is short. It can come and go like a feather in the wind.” —Shania Twain.
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Luis Gutierrez: Today’s immigrants
“Because the truth is, today’s immigrants, as they have for generation after generation, work the longest hours at the hardest jobs for the lowest pay, jobs that are just about impossible to fill.” —Luis Gutierrez.
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Naya Rivera: First love
“If you think back to your first love, you always remember them and little things always remind you of them. ” —Naya Rivera.
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Malaika Arora Khan: Dance and I
“Dance and I are synonymous, and nobody can take away dance from my life. Also, I cannot look at dance in an inert way; it’s my passion, and I get keen on being part of any show or film that has dance!” —Malaika Arora Khan.
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Kareena Kapoor Khan: Yoga
“Yoga may look peaceful and calming, but even Arnold Schwarzenegger would have trouble breathing after twenty ‘surya namaskars’ in a row. ” —Kareena Kapoor Khan.
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Karisma Kapoor: Maids in India
“Maids in India have egos. Big egos. They do not like being spoken to curtly, and they do not like to be abruptly instructed by a woman they do not know. They come with the feeling that they already know everything. So while training them to do things your way, speak gently, and when they…
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Katherine Heigl: Public eye
“Some people think, if you’re in the public eye, that you have to have an answer for everything and it has to be boring.” —Katherine Heigl.
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Mike Pence: Donald Trump
“Donald Trump gets it: he’s the genuine article. He’s a doer in a game usually reserved for talkers. And when Donald Trump does his talking, he doesn’t tiptoe around the thousand new rules of political correctness.” —Mike Pence.
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Bernie Sanders: Capitalism
“Capitalism does a number of things very well: it helps create an entrepreneurial spirit; it gets people motivated to come up with new ideas, and that’s a good thing.” —Bernie Sanders.
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Beyonce Knowles: Power
“Power means happiness; power means hard work and sacrifice.” —Beyonce Knowles.
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Chrissy Teigen: Models eat
“Models eat. They’re crazy about moderation, but they eat.” —Chrissy Teigen.
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Sherilyn Fenn: Anxiety in life
“I think there’s an anxiety in life where we automatically tend to look to the next thing or we’re complaining about the past. Worrying is not going to make it happen or not happen.” —Sherilyn Fenn.
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Boris Yeltsin: Bugbears
“There are numerous bugbears in the profession of a politician. First, ordinary life suffers. Second, there are many temptations to ruin you and those around you. And I suppose third, and this is rarely discussed, people at the top generally have no friends.” —Boris Yeltsin.
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Donald Trump: Where the fun is
“I try to learn from the past, but I plan for the future by focusing exclusively on the present. That’s where the fun is.” —Donald Trump.
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Saxon White Kessinger: The Indispensable Man
“Sometime when you’re feeling important; Sometime when your ego ‘s in bloom; Sometime when you take it for granted, You’re the best qualified in the room: Sometime when you feel that your going, Would leave an unfillable hole, Just follow these simple instructions, And see how they humble your soul. Take a bucket and fill…
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Jimmy Kimmel: More about science
“Almost half our representatives in Washington apparently know more about science than our scientists. Or they pretend to, because big corporations give them a lot of money to make sure they can keep doing the destructive things that they do.” —Jimmy Kimmel.
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Lea Michele: Working out
“Working out for me is something I do when I feel like it. But it’s really about feeling good and taking care of my body rather than having to fit into any sort of model or anything like that. I try to eat well, and everything I do is really just to make me feel…
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Garrett Kroll: Obvious solution
“It’s much more than creating, it’s about understanding your problem so well that the solution is obvious.” —Garrett Kroll.
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Melanie Swan: Bitcoin and blockchains
“Bitcoin is just one example of something that uses a blockchain. Cryptocurrencies are just one example of decentralized technologies. And now that the Internet is big enough and diverse enough, I think we will see different flavors of decentralized technologies and blockchains. I think decentralized networks will be the next huge wave in technology. The…
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Kirsten Dunst: Confidence
“Confidence is very sexy. You could be not cute at all and have such confidence.” —Kirsten Dunst.
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Nancy Pelosi: Opponent
“Don’t underestimate your opponent, but don’t overestimate them, either. ” —Nancy Pelosi.
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Warren Buffett: Derivatives
“Derivatives are financial weapons of mass destruction.” —Warren Buffett.
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Joseph P Kennedy III: Old rule of thumb
“There’s an old rule of thumb in politics that 90 percent of all 90 year-olds vote and 25 percent of all 25 year-olds vote.” —Joseph P Kennedy III.
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Kim Kardashian: Money
“If you can fix a problem with money, it’s not really a problem.” —Kim Kardashian.
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Jennifer Hudson: Don’t block your blessings
“Don’t block your blessings. Don’t let doubt stop you from getting where you want to be.” —Jennifer Hudson.
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Aretha Franklin: Falling out of love
“Falling out of love is like losing weight. It’s a lot easier putting it on than taking it off.” —Aretha Franklin.
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Nassim Taleb: Bitcoin
“Bitcoin is the beginning of something great: a currency without a government, something necessary and imperative.” —Nassim Taleb.
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Lady Gaga: Music
“Music is one of the most powerful things the world has to offer. No matter what race or religion or nationality or sexual orientation or gender that you are, it has the power to unite us.” —Lady Gaga.
