Author: LINUS FERNANDES
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Kevin Costner: Dreams
”I’m a big fan of dreams. Unfortunately, dreams are our first casualty in life – people seem to give them up, quicker than anything, for a ’reality.’” — Kevin Costner.
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Voltaire: Gift of life
“God gave us the gift of life; it is up to us to give ourselves the gift of living well.” —Voltaire.
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Woody Allen: Show business
“Show business is tough…it’s a dog-eat-dog world. No…it’s worse… it’s a dog-doesn’t-return-another-dog’s phone call.” —Woody Allen.
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Michelle Obama: Being smart
”I never cut class. I loved getting A’s, I liked being smart. I liked being on time. I thought being smart is cooler than anything in the world.” —Michelle Obama.
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Simone de Beauvoir: Safe comfort of certainties
“I tore myself away from the safe comfort of certainties through my love for truth — and truth rewarded me.” —Simone de Beauvoir, author and philosopher (9 Jan 1908-1986).
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Mary Kate: Suffering
”When people suffer, their relationships usually suffer as well. Period. And we all suffer because, as the Buddha says, that’s the nature of being human and wanting stuff we don’t always get.” —Mary Karr.
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Lewis H Lapham: Presumptuous society
”A society that presumes a norm of violence and celebrates aggression, whether in the subway, on the football field, or in the conduct of its business, cannot help making celebrities of the people who would destroy it.” —Lewis H. Lapham, editor and writer (b. 8 Jan 1935).
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Martin Luther King Jr: Conscience
“Cowardice asks the question, ‘Is it safe?’ Expediency asks the question, “Is it politic?” Vanity asks the question, “Is it popular?” But, conscience asks the question, “Is it right?” And there comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular but one must take it because one’s…
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Nicholson Baker: Wikipedia
”Wikipedia is just an incredible thing. It is fact-encirclingly huge, and it is idiosyncratic, careful, messy, funny, shocking and full of simmering controversies – and it is free, and it is fast.” —Nicholson Baker.
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Jeffrey Archer: Worst moment of any campaign
”The worst moment of any campaign is waiting for the sun to rise on the morning of the battle. “ —Jeffrey Archer.
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Lewis Grizzard: Plaintiff
”I have three ex-wives. I can’t remember any of their names, so I just call ’em Plaintiff.” —Lewis Grizzard, humorist (20 Oct 1946-1994).
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Orlando Bloom: Watch how you communicate
”Watch how you communicate with a woman. Because you’re always communicating, even when you’re not talking – with your body language, your facial expressions, your eyes.” —Orlando Bloom.
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Morihei Ueshiba: Strategy
“The best strategy relies upon an unlimited set of responses.” —Morihei Ueshiba.
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Adam Lindsay Gordon: Kindness and courage
“Life is mostly froth and bubble, / Two things stand like stone, / Kindness in another’s trouble, / Courage in your own.” —Adam Lindsay Gordon, poet (19 Oct 1833-1870).
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Rod Taylor: Poor student
”I am a poor student sitting at the feet of giants, yearning for their wisdom and begging for lessons that might one day make me a complete artist, so that if all goes well, I may one day sit beside them.” —Rod Taylor.
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Joe Gebbia: Failure
“Failure itself is not an event. It’s the relationship that you choose to have with an event—how you react to it—that matters.” —Joe Gebbia.
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Anand Mahindra: Not a lonely person
“I am not a lonely person. I am happily married and I am not looking for companions on social media.” —Anand Mahindra.
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Donald Knuth: Let loose computer scientists
”In fact what I would like to see is thousands of computer scientists let loose to do whatever they want. That’s what really advances the field.” —Donald Knuth.
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Thomas Wolfe: Pinnacle of success
”You have reached the pinnacle of success as soon as you become uninterested in money, compliments, or publicity.” —Thomas Wolfe, novelist (3 Oct 1900-1938).
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Meryl Streep : Violence incites violence
”This instinct to humiliate, when’s it’s modelled by someone on the public platform, by someone powerful, it filters down into everybody’s life, because it kind of gives permission for other people to do the same thing. Disrespect invites disrespect. Violence incites violence. And when the powerful use their position to bully others, we all lose.”…
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Meryl Streep: Crawling with outsiders and foreigners
”Hollywood is crawling with outsiders and foreigners. And if we kick them all out, you’ll have nothing to watch but football and mixed martial arts, which are not the arts. ” —Meryl Streep does not belong in President-elect Donald Trump’s camp.
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Richard Nixon : Words, not voices
”We cannot learn from one another until we stop shouting at one another – until we speak quietly enough so that our words can be heard as well as our voices. “ —Richard Nixon.
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Bill Drayton: Transition
“Every successful organisation has to make the transition from a world defined primarily by repetition to one primarily defined by change.” —Bill Drayton.
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Elvis Presley: Truth
”Truth is like the sun. You can shut it out for a time, but it ain’t goin’ away.” —Elvis Presley.
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Guru Dutt: Hurt
“Everybody is going to hurt you. You just have to find the ones worth suffering for.” —Guru Dutt.
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Gerald Durrell: Worlds
”There is no first world and third world. There is only one world, for all of us to live and delight in.” —Gerald Durrell.
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Georges Clemenceau: Military justice
Military justice is to justice what military music is to music. -Georges Clemenceau, statesman (28 Sep 1841-1929).
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Rowan Atkinson: Mr. Bean
”Mr. Bean is essentially a child trapped in the body of a man. All cultures identify with children in a similar way, so he has this bizarre global outreach.” —Rowan Atkinson.
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William Empson: Imaginative literature
“The central function of imaginative literature is to make you realize that other people act on moral convictions different from your own.” —William Empson, literary critic and poet (27 Sep 1906-1984) .
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James Couzens: Social justice
”It is our belief that social justice begins at home. We want those who have helped us to produce this great institution and are helping to maintain it to share our prosperity. We want them to have present profits and future prospects. … Believing as we do, that a division of our earnings between capital…
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Deepika Padukone: Broken heart
”Of course! It takes a lot of strength to mend a broken heart. Channelising energies into your work helps, but also to be able to accept situations for what they are instead of questioning them helps immensely.” —Deepika Padukone.
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John Burroughs: To rise above the little things
“One resolution I have made, and try always to keep is this – To rise above the little things.” – John Burroughs.
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John Berger: Men and women
“Men act and women appear. Men look at women. Women watch themselves being looked at.” —John Berger.
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Floyd Patterson: Fear
”Fear was absolutely necessary. Without it, I would have been scared to death.” —Floyd Patterson.
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Mehmet Murat Ildan: Believe in yourself
”Let me give you a New Year message: Believe in yourself, because no one ever achieved anything significant without believing in himself and no one ever will! Believe in yourself powerfully, especially when there is no reason left to believe in yourself because the ultimate bottom is the best place to start a big rise!”…
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Donald Trump: Just a club
“United Nations is just a club for people to have a good time.” —Donald Trump.
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Mel Gibson: Stages
”I just don’t do anything fun anymore. But, that’s dying, isn’t it? I mean, you die in stages, right? You let things go in pieces.” —Mel Gibson.
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Isaac Asimov: Be obvious
“It pays to be obvious, especially if you have a reputation for subtlety.” —Isaac Asimov.
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Donald Trump: No computer is safe
”You know, if you have something really important, write it out and have it delivered by courier, the old-fashioned way. Because I’ll tell you what: No computer is safe. I don’t care what they say.” —Donald Trump.
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Jonathan Edwards: Two resolutions
“Resolution One: I will live for God. Resolution Two: If no one else does, I still will.” —Jonathan Edwards.
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Vidya Balan: Sari
”I enjoy the sari. I think it’s the sexiest garment ever. It shows you the right amount, it covers the right amount, it’s extremely versatile, it suits every body type, it suits every face.” —Vidya Balan.
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F Scott Fitzgerald: A drink
”First you take a drink, then the drink takes a drink, then the drink takes you.” —F. Scott Fitzgerald.
