Author: LINUS FERNANDES
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Thomas Jefferson: Action
“Do you want to know who you are? Don’t ask. Act! Action will delineate and define you.” —Thomas Jefferson.
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David Letterman: Worst tempered people
“The worst tempered people I have ever met were those who knew that they were wrong.” —David Letterman.
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Coretta Scott King: Hate
“Hate is too great a burden to bear. It injures the hater more than it injures the hated.” —Coretta Scott King.
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George Canning: Parents of failure
“Indecision and delays are the parents of failure.” —George Canning.
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Janelle Monae: Perfection, enemy of greatness
“Embrace what makes you unique, even if it makes others uncomfortable. I didn’t have to become perfect because I’ve learned throughout my journey that perfection is the enemy of greatness.” —Janelle Monae.
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Ram Gopal Verma: ‘Anti-Romeo squads’
“I am baffled with the name ‘Anti-Romeo squads’. How can Romeo, a revered lover, be a synonym for an eve-teasing goon?” —Ram Gopal Verma.
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Steven Seagal: High stakes
“It doesn’t work if the bad guys kill his mother’s uncle’s friend’s neighbor’s pet dog. You’ve got to make the stakes high.” —Steven Seagal.
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Gloria Steinem: Writing
“Writing is the only thing that, when I do it, I don’t feel I should be doing something else.” —Gloria Steinem.
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Dennis Quaid: Break up
“When you break up, your whole identity is shattered. It’s like death.” —Dennis Quaid.
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Anne Rice: Risk making a fool of yourself
“To write something you have to risk making a fool of yourself.” —Anne Rice.
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Kofi Annan: To live is to choose
“To live is to choose. But to choose well, you must know who you are and what you stand for, where you want to go and why you want to get there.” —Kofi Annan.
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Suzanne Collins: Reluctant reader
“One of the most memorable things I hear is when someone tells me that my books got a reluctant reader to read.” Suzanne Collins
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Jackie Chan: I’m not Superman
“A lot of people ask me when I do a stunt, ‘Jackie, are you scared?’ Of course I’m scared. I’m not Superman.” —Jackie Chan.
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Jeanette Witherspoon: Writers
“Writers are not here to conform. We are here to challenge. We’re not here to be comfortable—we’re here, really, to shake things up. That’s our job.” Jeanette Winterson
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Omar Khayyam: Moving finger
“The moving finger writes, and having written moves on. Nor all thy piety nor all thy wit, can cancel half a line of it.” —Omar Khayyam.
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Darrell Hammond: Sterile, risk-averse and structured environments
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Franz Stampfl: If the spirit’s there
“There’s nothing a man can’t do if the spirit’s there.” – Franz Stampfl, Austrian running coach who pioneered interval training.
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Colin Powell: Excellence
“If you are going to achieve excellence in big things, you develop the habit in little matters. Excellence is not an exception, it is a prevailing attitude.” —Colin Powell.
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Norman Angell: Disinterested motives of good men
“The force which makes for war does not derive its strength from the interested motives of evil men; it derives its strength from the disinterested motives of good men.” — Norman Angell, lecturer, author, MP, and Nobel laureate (1872-1967).
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Maya Angelou: Travel
“Perhaps travel cannot prevent bigotry, but by demonstrating that all peoples cry, laugh, eat, worry, and die, it can introduce the idea that if we try and understand each other, we may even become friends.” —Maya Angelou, poet (4 Apr 1928-2014) .
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Maya Angelou: Success
“Success is liking yourself, liking what you do, and liking how you do it.” —Maya Angelou.
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George Washington: Abundant reason to rejoice
“We have abundant reason to rejoice, that, in this land, the light of truth and reason has triumphed over the power of bigotry and superstition, and that every person may here worship God according to the dictates of his own heart. In this enlightened age, and in this land of equal liberty, it is our…
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Saina Nehwal: Giving
“Incidentally, it is not easy to ‘give’ as we seem to think. One, your family should back you. Two, you must have the money to spare! And, most importantly, you need the will to donate.” —Saina Nehwal.
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Eddie Murphy: Advice
”The advice I would give to someone is to not take anyone’s advice.” —-Eddie Murphy.
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E M Forster: Exams and jobs
” As long as certain jobs can only be reached through exams, so long must we take the examination system seriously.” — E M Forster.
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Emile Zola: Quality and quantity
“If I cannot overwhelm with my quality, I will overwhelm with my quantity.” —Emile Zola.
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Peter De Vries: Safe universe
“The universe is like a safe to which there is a combination. But the combination is locked up in the safe.” —Peter De Vries, editor, novelist (27 Feb 1910-1993) .
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Karol Bunsch: Roads endure
“Roads endure longer than pyramids.” —Karol Bunsch, novelist (22 Feb 1898-1987).
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Al Gore: Holler
“When you have the facts on your side, argue the facts. When you have the law on your side, argue the law. When you have neither, holler.” —-Al Gore, Former Vice President of the United States.
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Thurgood Marshall: Grave threats to liberty
“History teaches that grave threats to liberty often come in times of urgency, when constitutional rights seem too extravagant to endure.” —Thurgood Marshall, US Supreme Court Justice (1908-1993) .
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Vincent Van Gogh: Paint
“If you hear a voice within you say ‘you cannot paint,’ then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced.” —Vincent Van Gogh.
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Fyodor Dostoevsky: Lying man
“A man who lies to himself, and believes his own lies, becomes unable to recognize truth, either in himself or in anyone else, and he ends up losing respect for himself and for others.” — Fyodor Dostoevsky, novelist (1821-1881) .
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Haruki Murakami: Run in void
“I just run. I run in void. Or maybe I should put it the other way: I run in order to acquire a void.” —Haruki Murakami.
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Monte Davis: Clear-headedness
“It’s hard to run and feel sorry for yourself at the same time. Also, there are those hours of clear-headedness that follow a long run.” —Monte Davis in the book, The Joy of Running.
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Elle MacPherson: Peace and serenity
“But I do know focusing on the exterior doesn’t make me happy. If I want peace and serenity, it won’t be reached by getting thinner or fatter.” —Elle MacPherson.
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Thom Markham: Empathy
“Empathy lies at the heart of 21st century skillfulness in teamwork, collaboration and communication in a diverse world.” —Thom Markham.
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Lady Gaga: Artists and record deals
“A record deal doesn’t make you an artist; you make yourself an artist.” —Lady Gaga.
