Author: LINUS FERNANDES
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Stan Lee: Spider-man
“I never thought that Spider-Man would become the world wide icon that he is. I just hoped the books would sell and I’d keep my job.” —Stan Lee, interview, March 13, 2006.
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Michelle Obama: It is odd
“It is odd because now I have a door and a doorbell and people actually trip out when I come to my door and I open it and the dogs, Bo and Sunny, don’t know what a doorbell is. So, the doorbell rings and they’re like, ‘I’ve never heard that before.‘” —Michelle Obama on life…
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Langston Hughes: Jazz
“Jazz , to me, is one of the inherent expressions of Negro life in America: the eternal tom-tom beating in the Negro soul – the tom-tom of revolt against weariness in a white world, a world of subway trains, and work, work, work; the tom-tom of joy and laughter, and pain swallowed in a smile.…
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Melania Trump: Everyone wants change
“Everyone wants change. Donald is the only one that can deliver it. We should not be satisfied with stagnation.” —Melania Trump.
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St. Brigid: I should like…
“I should like a great lake of beer for the King of Kings. I should like the angels of Heaven to be drinking it through time eternal. I should like excellent meats of belief and pure piety. I should like the men of Heaven at my house. I should like barrels of peace at their…
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Britney Spears: Success
“For me, success is a state of mind. I feel like success isn’t about conquering something; it’s being happy with who you are.” —Britney Spears.
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Jim Carrey: Desperation
“Desperation is a necessary ingredient to learning anything, or creating anything. Period. If you ain’t desperate at some point, you ain’t interesting.” —Jim Carrey.
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Celine Dion: Look within yourself
“The hardest thing to find in life is balance – especially the more success you have, the more you look to the other side of the gate. What do I need to stay grounded, in touch, in love, connected, emotionally balanced? Look within yourself. ” —Celine Dion.
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Rita Ora: Women love an honest man
“Women love an honest man. An honest man that isn’t afraid to say, ‘Men get hurt too.’ And a lot of men don’t admit that. ” —Rita Ora.
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Tomi Lahren: Echo chamber
“To exist in an echo chamber and only talk to people with whom we agree is fruitless.” —Tomi Lahren.
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Frederick Douglass: Freedom and agitation
“Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet depreciate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground.” —Frederick Douglass.
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Kate Upton: Pick-up lines
“I just think that pick-up lines in general are horrible. None of them work.” —Kate Upton.
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Ayn Rand: Contradictions
“Contradictions do not exist. Whenever you think you are facing a contradiction, check your premises. You will find that one of them is wrong.” —Ayn Rand.
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Shakira: Respect and affection
“My team and I have reunited two elements that coexist with difficulty: respect and affection, because when they love you they don’t respect you and when they respect you they don’t love you.” —Shakira.
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Ellen DeGeneres: Emote
“Laugh. Laugh as much as you can. Laugh until you cry. Cry until you laugh. Keep doing it even if people are passing you on the street saying, ‘I can’t tell if that person is laughing or crying, but either way they seem crazy, let’s walk faster.’ Emote. It’s okay. It shows you are thinking…
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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.
