Author: LINUS FERNANDES
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Gwyneth Paltrow: Kick-ass red lipstick
“Beauty, to me, is about being comfortable in your own skin. That, or a kick-ass red lipstick.” —Gwyneth Paltrow.
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Tupac Shakur: When it rains, it pours
“You know it’s funny when it rains, it pours. They got money for wars, but can’t feed the poor.” —Tupac Shakur.
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Chris Stapleton: Polarization
“I’m a fan of polarization. If you make something that is palatable to everybody, it’s like making vanilla ice cream, and I think we have enough of that.” —Chris Stapleton.
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Toni Braxton: Dating
“Dating is different when you get older. You’re not as trusting, or as eager to get back out there and expose yourself to someone.” —Toni Braxton.
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Nicole Eggert: Three huge catering trucks
“For all the concern about bodies and weight, ‘Baywatch’ has three huge catering trucks on the set at all times. One for entrees, one appetizers and one for junk food.” —Nicole Eggert.
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Simon Pegg: Sense of humor
“I think at its best the American sense of humor is the same as the British sense of humor at its best, which is to be wry and ironic and self deprecating.” —Simon Pegg.
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Caitlyn Jenner: Practice what you preach
“If you’re asking your kids to exercise, then you better do it, too. Practice what you preach.” —Caitlyn Jenner.
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John Travolta: Gossip magazines and reviews
“I learned early on to stay away from gossip magazines and reviews. That stuff just makes you unhappy, and I know actors that read everything that’s written about them and they’re miserable. You can choose what to let into your life.” —John Travolta.
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Dave Grohl: Guilt
“Guilt is cancer. Guilt will confine you, torture you, destroy you as an artist. It’s a black wall. It’s a thief.” —Dave Grohl.
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Juhi Chawla: Tragedy
“Why do we wait for tragedy to strike to tell someone how special they are, or how special they were?” —Juhi Chawla.
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Preity Zinta: Power of no
“Luck always favours the brave. And you must remember that brave are the people who follow their heart; brave are the people who take chances in life. Which also means you have to say no sometimes. I believe the power of no is greater than yes.” —Preity Zinta.
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Steve Wynn: Recruit for personality
“We recruit our people for personality. We look for the people person, with innate warmth, sweetness, and intelligence. These are the people who are sending your message out to the customers and potential customers, so we recruit for personality first and foremost.” —Steve Wynn.
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Jennifer Lopez: Beauty treatments
“I don’t get anything for free. I pay for all my beauty treatments.” —Jennifer Lopez.
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Gwyneth Paltrow: Beauty in one specific way
“I really like where Tony Robbins says that we’re all hypnotized to see beauty this one specific way, and it’s true.” —Gwyneth Paltrow.
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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.
