Author: LINUS FERNANDES
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Hillary Clinton: Art of making the impossible possible
“The challenge is to practice politics as the art of making what appears to be impossible, possible.” —Hillary Clinton.
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Dane Cook: Anger
“Anger has a way of seeping into every other emotion and planting itself in there. ” —Dane Cook.
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Nikolas Sarkozy: Presidential campaign
“In a presidential campaign, you can’t lie. You can’t hide what you are and what you want. You can’t hide what kind of President you’ll be. You can’t keep on talking about nothing indefinitely and committing to nothing, you can’t keep running away from debate, masking the challenges.” —Nikolas Sarkozy.
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Elijah Wood: Absence of love
“In the absence of love, there is nothing worth fighting for.” —Elijah Wood.
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Hillary Clinton: Undaunted
“I’m undaunted in my quest to amuse myself by constantly changing my hair.” —Hillary Clinton.
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Abraham Joshua Heschel: Clever versus kind
“When I was young, I admired clever people. Now that I am old, I admire kind people.” —Abraham Joshua Heschel, theology professor (1907-1972).
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Naval Ravikant: Cryptocurrencies
“Cryptocurrency currencies take the concept of money, and they take it native into computers, where everything is settled with computers and doesn’t require external institutions or trusted third parties to validate things.” —Naval Ravikant.
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Jennifer Lopez: You get what you give
“You get what you give. What you put into things is what you get out of them.” —Jennifer Lopez.
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Mandy Moore: Role model
“We sometimes think that being a celebrity is the same as being a role model. But a role model is actually someone you can touch, talk to and dream with.” —Mandy Moore.
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Stan Walker: What I believe is what I show
“What I believe is what I show, if I’m going to write a song about girls I don’t want to do it in a way where I’m downgrading a girl.” —Stan Walker.
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Tom Cruise: Learn from winning
“I disagree with people who think you learn more from getting beat up than you do from winning.” —Tom Cruise.
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Rebecca Ferguson: Having a child is a blessing
“What I hated then – and hate now – is the way that people say to girls like me who get pregnant young that it ruins your life. Having a child doesn’t ruin your life – having a child is a blessing.” —Rebecca Ferguson.
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Jennifer Lopez: How they smell
“I judge people on how they smell, not how they look.” —Jennifer Lopez.
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Gwyneth Paltrow: Broken heart
“The best way to mend a broken heart is time and girlfriends.” —Gwyneth Paltrow.
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Robert Mueller: Why Burmese women now walk ahead
“I asked a Burmese why women, after centuries of following their men, now walk ahead. He said there were many unexploded land mines since the war.” —Robert Mueller.
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Bruno Mars: Opportunity’s door
“You can’t knock on opportunity’s door and not be ready.” —Bruno Mars.
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Meryl Streep: People of my age
“America doesn’t reward people of my age, either in day-to-day life or for their performances.” —Meryl Streep.
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Hillary Clinton: When you fight your friends
“You show people what you’re willing to fight for when you fight your friends.” —Hillary Clinton.
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William Paul Young: Forgiveness
“Forgiveness is not about forgetting. It is about letting go of another person’s throat……Forgiveness does not create a relationship. Unless people speak the truth about what they have done and change their mind and behavior, a relationship of trust is not possible. When you forgive someone you certainly release them from judgment, but without true…
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Nikki Haley: Ammunition
“I wear heels. It’s not for a fashion statement, it’s… ammunition.” —Nikki Haley.
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Vanessa Marcil: What makes a woman beautiful
“What makes a woman beautiful is her loyalty to and her friendships with other women, and her honesty with men.” —Vanessa Marcil.
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Lewis Carroll: Everything’s got a moral
“Everything’s got a moral, if only you can find it.” —Lewis Carroll.
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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Soul of genius
“Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.” —Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.
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Oscar Wilde: Women, not perfectly normal
“How can a woman be expected to be happy with a man who insists on treating her as if she were a perfectly normal human being?” —Oscar Wilde.
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Casey Affleck: All cultures are different
“All cultures are different. Some commit genocide. Some are uniquely peaceful. Some frequent bathhouses in groups. Some don’t show each other the soles of their shoes or like pictures taken of them. Some have enormous hunting festivals or annual stretches when nobody speaks. Some don’t use electricity.” —Casey Affleck.
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Ellen DeGeneres: Catch-and-release
“Catch-and-release, that’s like running down pedestrians in your car and then, when they get up and limp away, saying — Off you go! That’s fine. I just wanted to see if I could hit you.” —Ellen DeGeneres, comedian, television host, and actress (b. 26 Jan 1958) .
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Babasaheb Ambedkar: Liberty
“What are we having this liberty for? We are having this liberty in order to reform our social system, which is full of inequality.” —Babasaheb Ambedkar.
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Meryl Streep: What other people think
“The minute you start caring about what other people think, is the minute you stop being yourself.” —Meryl Streep.
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Wilder Penfield: Link with divinity
It has always been my belief that, for everyone who is ready and willing, there is a place. it seems to wait for him or her, in some good human cause. Causes are man-made, to be sure, and in the long run, I believe man can control the destiny of civilization on this earth. And…
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Epicetus: Caution
“For if a person shifts their caution to their own reasoned choices and the acts of those choices, they will at the same time gain the will to avoid, but if they shift their caution away from their own reasoned choices to things not under their control, seeking to avoid what is controlled by others,…
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Meryl Streep: Enormous negotiation
“There’s no road map on how to raise a family: it’s always an enormous negotiation.” —Meryl Streep.
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Theresa May: Cryptocurrencies
“Cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin, we should be looking at these very seriously, precisely because of the way that they can be used, particularly by criminals.” —Theresa May.
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Brie Larson: Awareness in tandem with forgiveness and love
“I love discussing social issues, but I’m not interested in scare tactics. I believe there is a way to bring awareness in tandem with forgiveness and love.” —Brie Larson.
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Meghan Trainor: Body type
“Any body type is beautiful. It’s all about loving what you got and rocking it.” —Meghan Trainor.
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Ben Shapiro: Nasty
“When someone calls you a racist, sexist, bigot, homophobe because you happen to disagree with them about tax policy or same-sex marriage or abortion, that’s bullying. When someone slanders you because you happen to disagree with them about global warming or the government shutdown, that’s bullying. When someone labels you a bad human being because…
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Ellen DeGeneres: Comfortable drama
“So many people prefer to live in drama because it’s comfortable. It’s like someone staying in a bad marriage or relationship — it’s actually easier to stay because they know what to expect every day, versus leaving and not knowing what to expect.” —Ellen DeGeneres.
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Bhagat Singh: Sanctity of law
“The sanctity of law can be maintained only so as long as it is the expression of the will of the people.” —Bhagat Singh.
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Virginia Woolf: To write fiction
“A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction.” —Virginia Woolf.
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Colleen Hoover: Just things that happen to you
“I want you to remember who you are, despite the bad things that are happening to you. Because those bad things aren’t you. They are just things that happen to you.” —Colleen Hoover.
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Ursula K Le Guin: Unbuild walls
“Those who build walls are their own prisoners. I’m going to go fulfil my proper function in the social organism. I’m going to go unbuild walls.” —Ursula K. Le Guin.
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Howard Marks: Something no one anticipated
“What could cause a market decline? A drop in investor confidence — perhaps the commodity that’s most freely available today — would likely be the key, but the reason is hard to foresee. ‘We’re not expecting any surprises,’ people say, and that has become our new favorite oxymoron. Surprises are never expected — by definition…
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Sharon Stone: Behaviour
“People don’t change their behaviour unless it makes a difference for them to do so.” —Sharon Stone.
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Elton John: Songs will outlast the artist
“If you write great songs with meaning and emotion, they will last for ever because songs are the key to everything. Songs will outlast the artist and they will go on for ever if they are good.” —Elton John.
