Author: LINUS FERNANDES
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Daniel Day-Lewis: Trepidation
“Being at the centre of a film is a burden one takes on with innocence the first time. Thereafter, you take it on with trepidation.” —Daniel Day-Lewis.
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Kenneth Branagh: Friendship
“Friendship is one of the most tangible things in a world which offers fewer and fewer supports.” —Kenneth Branagh.
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Mark Salling: Unrealistic
“Some girls go for bad boys because they like the challenge of changing them – which is usually unrealistic.” —Mark Salling.
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Don Bosco: Good Catholic and good citizen
“‘Give to Caesar what belongs to Caesar, and to God what belongs to God.’ Therefore, according to the Gospel, any citizen can be a good Catholic — that is, side with Jesus Christ and the Pope, and do good to his fellow men — and at the same time side with Caesar, namely, observe the…
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Justin Timberlake: Overwhelmed the girl
“Every relationship I’ve been in, I’ve overwhelmed the girl. They just can’t handle all the love.” —Justin Timberlake.
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Tom Hanks: Nobody’s business
“And I’m not apolitical – I’m very specific in my politics. But a lot of the time it’s nobody’s business unless you’re over at my house having dinner.” —Tom Hanks.
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Gail Tsukiyama: Differently
“Don’t ever think that because you do things differently, you’re wrong.” —Gail Tsukiyama.
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Andrew Carnegie: One basket
“The way to become rich is to put all your eggs in one basket and then watch that basket.” —Andrew Carnegie.
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Rose McGowan: Career
“I realized a career is built as much on what you don’t do as what you do do.” —Rose McGowan.
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Zeenat Aman: Wings of a butterfly
“Open your heart and mind like the wings of a butterfly. See then how high you CAN fly.” —Zeenat Aman.
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Kim Kardashian: Perception
“I play into the perception of me, but it’s not really me.” —Kim Kardashian.
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Oprah Winfrey: Facing truth sets you free
“The thing you fear most has no power. Your fear of it is what has the power. Facing the truth really will set you free.” —Oprah Winfrey.
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Miley Cyrus: Know who you are
“It’s so much easier to know who you are when there aren’t a thousand people telling you who they think you are.” —Miley Cyrus.
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Angela Saini: Working women and men
“Women now make up almost half the labor force, yet in 2014 the bureau found that women spent about half an hour more every day than men doing household work. On an average day, a fifth of men did housework, compared with nearly half of women. In households with children under the age of six,…
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Devin Nunes: Fiscal instability
“Pointing out that overspending on public-employee benefits leads to fiscal instability does not mean that public employees are bad people or that they deserve to fall on hard times; it’s just observing a simple truth.” —Devin Nunes.
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Megan Mullaly: Vanity project
“There’s kind of a double standard: if a musician decides they want to act, everybody falls over themselves. But if you’re an actor and you have a band, everyone’s, ‘Ugh, disgusting! It’s a vanity project.’” —Megan Mullally.
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Twinkle Khanna: Political correctness
“I think political correctness is taking over genuine human emotions.” —Twinkle Khanna.
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Warren Buffet: Cryptocurrencies
“Stay away from it (cryptocurrencies). It’s a mirage, basically.” —Warren Buffet.
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Ernie Hudson: Hard call
“It’s a hard call, but I’ve no desire to live my children’s lives. I think my job as a father is to protect them, to allow them a safe place to grow up and to teach them what I’ve learned.” —Ernie Hudson.
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Albert Camus: Readers and commentators
“Those who write clearly have readers, those who write obscurely have commentators.” —Albert Camus.
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Angela Saini: Key part of science
“A key part of science is humility; the ability to accept the possibility that we can be wrong.” —Angela Saini.
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Mahatma Gandhi: Humanity
“You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.” —Mahatma Gandhi.
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Oprah Winfrey: Challenges
“Challenges are gifts that force us to search for a new center of gravity. Don’t fight them. Just find a different way to stand.” —Oprah Winfrey.
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William Shatner: Advantages of being captain
“One of the advantages of being a captain is being able to ask for advice without necessarily having to take it.” —William Shatner.
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Andrew McCabe: No privacy or security
“There is no world of absolute, complete privacy or a world of complete national security.” —Andrew McCabe.
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Nikki Haley: Turn down the volume
“Some people think that you have to be the loudest voice in the room to make a difference. That is just not true. Often, the best thing we can do is turn down the volume. When the sound is quieter, you can actually hear what someone else is saying. And that can make a world…
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Margot Robbie: Real life
“Being irrational and out of control is what happens in real life. Not cautiously choreographing your anger or your emotions, losing yourself in them is what happens in real life.” —–Margot Robbie.
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Elon Musk: Feedback loop
“I think it’s very important to have a feedback loop, where you’re constantly thinking about what you’ve done and how you could be doing it better. I think that’s the single best piece of advice: constantly think about how you could be doing things better and questioning yourself.” —Elon Musk.
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Lady Gaga: Love
“Love is like a brick. You can build a house, or you can sink a dead body.” —Lady Gaga.
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Angela Saini: Behavioural and psychological differences
“Study after study has shown almost all behavioral and psychological differences between the sexes to be small or nonexistent. Cambridge University psychologist Melissa Hines and others have repeatedly demonstrated that boys and girls have little, if any, noticeable gaps between them when it comes to fine motor skills, spatial visualization, mathematics ability, and verbal fluency.”…
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Eminem: Backstabbers
“Dealing with backstabbers, there was one thing I learned. They’re only powerful when you got your back turned.” —Eminem.
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Alicia Keys: Bathroom
“If I want to be alone, some place I can write, I can read, I can pray, I can cry, I can do whatever I want – I go to the bathroom.” —Alicia Keys.
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Hillary Clinton: Extremism
“Extremism thrives amid ignorance and anger, intimidation and cowardice.” —Hillary Clinton.
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Christian Bale: Worst thing in the world
“I think trying too hard to be sexy is the worst thing in the world a woman can do.” —Christian Bale.
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Gene Hackman: One step sideways
“The difference between a hero and a coward is one step sideways.” —Gene Hackman.
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Milton Friedman: Reliable e-cash
“I think the internet is going to be one of the major forces for reducing the role of government. The one thing that’s missing but that will soon be developed, is a reliable e-cash.” – Professor Milton Friedman.
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Gail Tsukiyama: Understand and survive
“To read and write will help you understand life. . .to sew and mend will help you survive it.” ― Gail Tsukiyama, The Language of Threads.
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Beyonce Knowles: Powerful woman
“In my videos, I always want to be a powerful woman. That’s my mission.” —Beyonce Knowles.
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Chris Hemsworth: Inspiring and important
“People who put themselves on the line and sacrifice their own safety for the greater good and for others, and anyone in any profession whose concern is the welfare for other people instead of the individual, are inspiring and important.” —Chris Hemsworth.
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Brooke Fraser: Analyze all you want
“You can analyze all you want but you can never explain away the God factor. Sometimes God just decides to breathe on something and it’s completely His prerogative.” —Brooke Fraser.
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SZA: Singing
“Singing was more of a hobby, and I was terrified of anyone’s opinions. The only reason I kept doing it was because people responded positively, and if they hadn’t I don’t really know if I’d feel the same. I’m not into fighting for people’s affections.” —SZA.
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Edward Abbey: Critic of society
“It is my belief that the writer, the free-lance author, should be and must be a critic of the society in which he lives. It is easy enough, and always profitable, to rail away at national enemies beyond the sea, at foreign powers beyond our borders who question the prevailing order. But the moral duty…
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Anna Kendrick: Gentleman
“I think a gentleman is someone who holds the comfort of other people above their own. The instinct to do that is inside every good man, I believe. The rules about opening doors and buying dinner and all of that other ‘gentleman’ stuff is a chess game, especially these days.” —Anna Kendrick.
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Lady Gaga: To be famous
“What I’ve learned is that you really don’t need to be a celebrity or have money or have the paparazzi following you around to be famous.” —Lady Gaga.
