Author: LINUS FERNANDES
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Boris Yeltsin: Bugbears
“There are numerous bugbears in the profession of a politician. First, ordinary life suffers. Second, there are many temptations to ruin you and those around you. And I suppose third, and this is rarely discussed, people at the top generally have no friends.” —Boris Yeltsin.
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Donald Trump: Where the fun is
“I try to learn from the past, but I plan for the future by focusing exclusively on the present. That’s where the fun is.” —Donald Trump.
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Saxon White Kessinger: The Indispensable Man
“Sometime when you’re feeling important; Sometime when your ego ‘s in bloom; Sometime when you take it for granted, You’re the best qualified in the room: Sometime when you feel that your going, Would leave an unfillable hole, Just follow these simple instructions, And see how they humble your soul. Take a bucket and fill…
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Jimmy Kimmel: More about science
“Almost half our representatives in Washington apparently know more about science than our scientists. Or they pretend to, because big corporations give them a lot of money to make sure they can keep doing the destructive things that they do.” —Jimmy Kimmel.
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Lea Michele: Working out
“Working out for me is something I do when I feel like it. But it’s really about feeling good and taking care of my body rather than having to fit into any sort of model or anything like that. I try to eat well, and everything I do is really just to make me feel…
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Garrett Kroll: Obvious solution
“It’s much more than creating, it’s about understanding your problem so well that the solution is obvious.” —Garrett Kroll.
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Melanie Swan: Bitcoin and blockchains
“Bitcoin is just one example of something that uses a blockchain. Cryptocurrencies are just one example of decentralized technologies. And now that the Internet is big enough and diverse enough, I think we will see different flavors of decentralized technologies and blockchains. I think decentralized networks will be the next huge wave in technology. The…
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Kirsten Dunst: Confidence
“Confidence is very sexy. You could be not cute at all and have such confidence.” —Kirsten Dunst.
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Nancy Pelosi: Opponent
“Don’t underestimate your opponent, but don’t overestimate them, either. ” —Nancy Pelosi.
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Warren Buffett: Derivatives
“Derivatives are financial weapons of mass destruction.” —Warren Buffett.
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Joseph P Kennedy III: Old rule of thumb
“There’s an old rule of thumb in politics that 90 percent of all 90 year-olds vote and 25 percent of all 25 year-olds vote.” —Joseph P Kennedy III.
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Kim Kardashian: Money
“If you can fix a problem with money, it’s not really a problem.” —Kim Kardashian.
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Jennifer Hudson: Don’t block your blessings
“Don’t block your blessings. Don’t let doubt stop you from getting where you want to be.” —Jennifer Hudson.
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Aretha Franklin: Falling out of love
“Falling out of love is like losing weight. It’s a lot easier putting it on than taking it off.” —Aretha Franklin.
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Nassim Taleb: Bitcoin
“Bitcoin is the beginning of something great: a currency without a government, something necessary and imperative.” —Nassim Taleb.
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Lady Gaga: Music
“Music is one of the most powerful things the world has to offer. No matter what race or religion or nationality or sexual orientation or gender that you are, it has the power to unite us.” —Lady Gaga.
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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.
