Author: LINUS FERNANDES
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Ursula K Le Guin: Distrust everything I say
“I talk about the gods, I am an atheist. But I am an artist too, and therefore a liar. Distrust everything I say. I am telling the truth.” —Ursula K Le Guin.
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Meryl Streep: You don’t have to be famous
“You don’t have to be famous. You just have to make your mother and father proud of you.” —Meryl Streep.
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Heath Ledger: Boring choices
“If you make decisions based upon people’s reactions or judgments then you make really boring choices.” —Heath Ledger.
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Miriam Pastor: Design as a method
“We should learn to bring design as a method that is there to serve the community, not to evangelize it with our one and only truth.”—Miriam Pastor.
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King Frederick II the Great: Merely a hat
“A crown is merely a hat that lets the rain in.” —King Frederick II the Great.
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Vicki Baum: Marriage
“Marriage always demands the finest arts of insincerity possible between two human beings.” —Vicki Baum.
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Lemony Snicket: Rest of our lives
“If we wait until we’re ready, we’ll be waiting for the rest of our lives.” —Lemony Snicket.
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Randy Pausch: Brick walls
“The brick walls are not there to keep us out. The brick walls are there to give us a chance to show how badly we want something. Because the brick walls are there to stop the people who don’t want it badly enough.” —Randy Pausch, professor.
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Hugh Masekela: Campaigns and promises
“When people campaign for positions, they promise people all kinds of things.” —Hugh Masekela.
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Stendhal: Same interests
“The shepherd always tries to persuade the sheep that their interests and his own are the same.” —Stendhal (Marie-Henri Beyle), novelist (23 Jan 1783-1842) .
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John D Rockefeller: When blood is running in the streets
“The way to make money is to buy when blood is running in the streets.” —John D. Rockefeller.
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Dolores O’Riordan: Abortion belittles women
“I am in no position to judge other women, you know. But I mean, why did she get pregnant? It’s not good for women to go through the procedure [abortion] and have something living sucked out of their bodies. It belittles women. Even though some women say, ‘Oh, I don’t mind to have one,’ every…
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Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose: Half its interest
“Life loses half its interest if there is no struggle—if there are no risks to be taken.” —Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose.
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Michael Tiffany: Ad fraud botnets
“Ad fraud botnets are being used to inflate the web views all across the internet. It looks as if there is more browsing happening than there actually is.” – Michael Tiffany.
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Jeanne Moreau: Football and women
“Women will not talk about football unless one of them is in love with a football player, and then suddenly you discover that they know everything that is to be known about it.” —Jeanne Moreau.
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Janis Joplin: I go home alone
“On stage, I make love to 25,000 different people, then I go home alone.” —Janis Joplin, singer-songwriter (19 Jan 1943-1970).
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Tom Petty: Five percent of the sound
“I think that if people realize that with an mp3, you’re only getting five percent of the sound that’s there. But when you hear the entire thing… I think it would save the music business. It’s such a drastic change.” —-Tom Petty.
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Sonam Kapoor: Sanitary napkins
“Sanitary napkins are packed like bombs; they are wrapped inside newspapers in black packets. Mothers don’t broach the subject, schools don’t instruct their girls about it. Grandmothers forbade us from entering temples on certain days of the month.” —Sonam Kapoor.
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John Donne: No man is an island
“No man is an Island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the Continent, a part of the main; if a clod be washed away by the sea, Europe is the less, as well as if a promontory were, as well as if a manor of thy friends or of thine own were;…
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Margaret Thatcher: Economists travel on infrastructure
“You and I come by road or rail, but economists travel on infrastructure.” —Margaret Thatcher.
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Marilyn French: Pebbles, not mountains
“Men stumble over pebbles, never over mountains.” —Marilyn French.
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Tom Petty: They can’t afford the music
“It’s funny how the music industry is enraged about the Internet and the way things are copied without being paid for. But you know why people steal the music? Because they can’t afford the music.” —Tom Petty.
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John Hurt: Honesty to the nth degree
“I think love can be really tough. Because it involves ultimately an honesty to the nth degree that you are capable of. Once said, you’ve lost your deposit. It’s best if you don’t say it.” —John Hurt.
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Lord Byron: Love and friendship
Friendship may, and often does, grow into love, but love never subsides into friendship. —Lord Byron.
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Unknown: Afraid
“We are always afraid to ask because we aren’t afraid of the answer but the feeling of rejection.” —Unknown.
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Paul Bocuse: New recipe
“If an architect makes a mistake, he grows ivy to cover it. If a doctor makes a mistake, he covers it with soil. If a cook makes a mistake, he covers it with some sauce and says it is a new recipe.” —Paul Bocuse.
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Paulo Coelho: Patience
“Patience is not about waiting, but how we act when things take longer than we expect.” — Paulo Coelho.
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Robert J Shiller: Finance
“Finance is not merely about making money. It’s about achieving our deep goals and protecting the fruits of our labor. It’s about stewardship and, therefore, about achieving the good society.” —Robert J. Shiller.
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Publilius Syrus: Opportunity lost
“The opportunity is often lost by deliberating.” —Publilius Syrus.
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Christian Dior: Sure instincts
“Women, with their sure instincts, realized that my intention was to make them not just more beautiful but also happier.” —Christian Dior.
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Benny Hill: Cut the odds
“The odds against there being a bomb on a plane are a million to one, and against two bombs a million times a million to one. Next time you fly, cut the odds and take a bomb.” —Benny Hill.
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Tama J Kieves: Limitations
“We live in a world that worships limitations” ― Tama J. Kieves, This Time I Dance!: Creating the Work You Love.
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Blythe Masters: Blockchain technology
“Blockchain technology represents a generational opportunity to mutualize database infrastructure across entities within financial services. What that translates into is an enormous cost-saving, risk-reducing, and capital-enhancing opportunity.” —Blythe Masters.
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Hedy Lamarr: Just think of the job
“I know why most people never get rich. They put the money ahead of the job. If you just think of the job, the money will automatically follow. This never fails.” —Hedy Lamarr.
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Federico Fellini: Hype
“Hype is the awkward and desperate attempt to convince journalists that what you’ve made is worth the misery of having to review it.” —Federico Fellini.
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Tama J Kieves: Closed door
“I know that when a door closes, it can feel like all doors are closing. A rejection letter can feel like everyone will reject us. But a closed door leads to clarity. It’s really an arrow. Because we cannot go through that door, we will go somewhere else. That somewhere else is your true life.”…
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David Marno: Attention and distraction
“It is reasonable to ask whether attention and distraction are simply two morally and culturally charged terms referring to what in reality is the same behaviour. We label this behaviour distraction when we disapprove of its objects and objectives; and we call it attention when we approve of them.” —David Marno.
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Warren Buffett: Growth and value
“..business growth, per se, tells us little about value. It’s true that growth often has a positive impact on value, sometimes one of spectacular proportions. But such an effect is far from certain…. Growth benefits investors only when the business in point can invest at incremental returns that are enticing – in other words, only…
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Tyler Oakley: No person
“No person, no matter how important society deems their relationship to you, has the right to denounce you for who you are.” —Tyler Oakley.
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Edgar Allan Poe: Self-confidence
“I have great faith in fools; self-confidence my friends call it.” —Edgar Allan Poe.
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Glorianne Swenson: Resolutions
“Resolutions” From Chicken Soup for the Soul: My Resolution ~Glorianne Swenson This year I will burn a candle and bask in the fragrance of spiced apple. I will take a nap between fresh sheets and not set the alarm. I will laugh aloud even though there is no one else to hear me. I will…
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Howard Marks: Favourite quote
“My favorite quote comes from a British author named Christopher Morley, ‘There’s only one success: to be able to live your life your way.’ I believe you shouldn’t let society determine what your way is, and you shouldn’t let money determine what your way is.” — Howard Marks.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson: Beauty of the good
“Don’t waste yourself in rejection, nor bark against the bad, but chant the beauty of the good.” —Ralph Waldo Emerson.
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Guiseppe Gioachino Belli: Tower of Babel
“‘We’d like to touch the stars,’ they cried, and, after, ‘We’ve got to touch the stars. But how?’ An able-brained ******* told them: ‘Build the Tower of Babel. Start now, get moving. Dig holes, sink a shaft. A-rise, arouse raise rafter after rafter, Get bricks, sand, limestone,scaffolding and cable; I’m clerk of works, fetch me…
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Warren Buffett: Book value versus intrinsic business value
“Book value is an accounting concept, recording the accumulated financial input from both contributed capital and retained earnings. Intrinsic business value is an economic concept, estimating future cash output discounted to present value. Book value tells you what has been put in; intrinsic business value estimates what can be taken out.” —- Warren Buffett.
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Anne Wilson Schaef: Security
Security is an attempt to try to make the universe static so that we feel safe. – Anne Wilson Schaef.
