Author: LINUS FERNANDES
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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.
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Meryl Streep: No normal
“This is your time and it feels normal to you, but really, there is no normal. There’s only change and resistance to it and then more change.” —Meryl Streep.
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Virginia Woolf: Beauty of the world
“The beauty of the world which is so soon to perish, has two edges, one of laughter, one of anguish, cutting the heart asunder.” —Virginia Woolf.
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Ashwin Sanghi: Improving humankind
“Humankind would improve if we concentrated less on being human and more on being kind.” —Ashwin Sanghi.
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Andre Gide: Better to be hated
“It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.” —Andre Gide.
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Hillary Clinton: Confidential communications
“In almost every profession – whether it’s law or journalism, finance or medicine or academia or running a small business – people rely on confidential communications to do their jobs. We count on the space of trust that confidentiality provides. When someone breaches that trust, we are all worse off for it.” —Hillary Clinton.
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Tom Hanks: Meryl Streep
“I’m in awe of Meryl Streep. I was afraid of Meryl Streep. I do not know what to say to Meryl Streep.” —Tom Hanks.
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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).
