Author: LINUS FERNANDES
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Toi Derricotte: Speculations about I
I didn’t choose the word — it came pouring out of my throat like the water inside a drowned man. I didn’t even push on my stomach. I just lay there, dead (like he told me) & “I” came out. (I’m sorry, Father. “I” wasn’t my fault.) ii (How did “I” feel?) Felt almost alive when…
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Aishwarya Rai Bachchan: Working with Salman
“Working with Salman is out of the question. And you can quote me on that.” —Aishwarya Rai Bachchan.
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Aishwarya Rai Bachchan: Nudity
“Women in the industry have been exploited very often, but there are some actors who believe that the short cut to stardom is through nudity.” —Aishwarya Rai Bachchan.
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Aishwarya Rai Bachchan: Looks are not everything
“Life will take its toll on all of us. We get injured, we get old … Looks are not everything. I am not going to look beautiful all the time.” —Aishwarya Rai Bachchan.
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Joan Chittister: Saints
”For centuries the church has confronted the human community with role models of greatness. We call them saints when what we really often mean to say is ‘icon,’ ‘star,’ ‘hero,’ ones so possessed by an internal vision of divine goodness that they give us a glimpse of the face of God in the center of…
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Nita Ambani: Smiley and happy
”I like to have everything smiley and happy for my husband. Men don’t want to see a grumpy face at the end of a hard day.” —Nita Ambani.
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Aishwarya Rai Bachchan: Sexy in India
”Sexy in India is not considered positive. But, with today’s crop of fresh faces in the modelling arena, being sexy is an asset.” —Aishwarya Rai Bachchan
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Sara Wachter-Boettcher: Design has power
“Interfaces define inputs. Inputs change outcomes. Outcomes define norms. Design has power.” —Sara Wachter-Boettcher
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Douglas Coupland: Genuine courage
”If human beings had genuine courage, they’d wear their costumes every day of the year, not just on Halloween.” — Douglas Coupland.
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John Keats: Poetry
”Poetry should… should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts, and appear almost a remembrance.” —John Keats.
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John Keats: Momentary effect
”Praise or blame has but a momentary effect on the man whose love of beauty in the abstract makes him a severe critic on his own works.” —John Keats .
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Andrew Weil: Walking
”The most common objection that I hear to walking as exercise is that it’s too easy, that only sweaty, strenuous activity offers real benefits. But there is abundant evidence that regular, brisk walking is associated with better health, including lower blood pressure, better moods and improved cholesterol ratios.” —Andrew Weil.
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Rupi Kaur: Writing
“the thing about writing is i can’t tell if it’s healing or destroying me.” —Rupi Kaur.
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Henry Rollins: Multiday festival
“Each year, every city in the world that can should have a multiday festival . More people meeting each other , digging new types of music , new foods, new ideas . You want to stop having so many wars? This could be a step in the right direction.” —Henry Rollins.
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Thich Nhat Hanh: Joy
“Sometimes joy is the source of your smile , and sometimes , your smile is the source of your joy . ” —Thich Nhat Hanh .
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Paul Keating: Self-interest
“Always back self-interest because you know it’s a goer. ” —Paul Keating .
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Winona Ryder: Normal
”When you finally accept that it’s OK not to have answers and it’s OK not to be perfect, you realize that feeling confused is a normal part of what it is to be a human being.” —Winona Ryder.
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Rupi Kaur: Surviving through poetry
“this is the journey of surviving through poetry this is the blood sweat tears of twenty-one years this is my heart in your hands this is the hurting the loving the breaking the healing.” —Rupi Kaur.
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Robin Williams: Statue of Liberty
“The Statue of Liberty’s no longer saying, ‘Give me your tired, your huddled masses.’ She’s got a baseball bat and yelling “You want a piece of me?” —Robin Williams.
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R C Bhargava: Good intention
“The intention (of an affordable car like Nano) was a good intention and Tatas tried to fulfil that intention . Anyway we could not have done it. I think he (Ratan Tata) needs credit for having attempted it. ” —R C Bhargava.
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Bill Gates: Finish line
”If I’d had some set idea of a finish line, don’t you think I would have crossed it years ago?” —Bill Gates.
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Rupi Kaur: Balance
“I thank the universe for taking everything it has taken and giving to me everything it is giving— balance.” —Rupi Kaur.
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Kinky Friedman: Beauty and beer holders
”Beauty is in the eye of the beer holder.” —Kinky Friedman.
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Anushka Sharma: Principles
”I’m ambitious, but I have principles when it comes to my ambition. I don’t believe that dhande me sab kuch chalta hai.I’m not that type. I’m not someone who thinks that you can be anything, do anything and say anything because you need to get your work done. I have certain principles and a value system…
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Rupi Kaur: A lover and a dreamer
“I am hopelessly a lover and a dreamer and that will be the death of me.” —Rupi Kaur.
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Hillary Clinton: Strength
”A man you can bait with a tweet is not a man we can trust with nuclear weapons. … America’s strength doesn’t come from lashing out. Strength relies on smarts, judgment, cool resolve, and the precise and strategic application of power. That’s the kind of Commander-in-Chief I pledge to be.” —Hillary Clinton, Secretary of State,…
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Ratan Tata: Leadership
“The (Tata) companies must focus on their market position vis-a-vis competition, and not compare themselves to their own past. The drive must be on leadership rather than to follow.” —Ratan Tata.
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Hillary Clinton: Forgiveness
”Forgiveness is a way of opening up the doors again and moving forward, whether it’s a personal life or a national life.” Hillary Clinton.
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Arunoday Singh: Sunset
“Never turn away From a sunset, except To see it reflected, In your lover’s eyes.” —Arunoday Singh.
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Pablo Picasso: Becoming
”My mother said to me, ‘If you are a soldier, you will become a general. If you are a monk, you will become the Pope.’ Instead, I was a painter, and became Picasso.” —Pablo Picasso.
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Arunoday Singh: Smiling
“You touch me, like a blind man caresses a face. Smiling, at all the details, mere eyes, will never see.” —Arunoday Singh.
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Donald Trump: Concentration of power
“As an example of the power structure I’m fighting, AT&T is buying Time Warner and thus CNN, a deal we will not approve in my administration because it’s too much concentration of power in the hands of too few.” —Donald Trump.
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Stephen Covey: Loyalty
”One of the most important ways to manifest integrity is to be loyal to those who are not present. In doing so, we build the trust of those who are present.” —Stephen Covey.
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Stephen Covey: What we are
“In the last analysis, what we are communicates far more eloquently than anything we say or do.” —Stephen Covey.
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Stephen Covey: Ultimate freedom
”Our ultimate freedom is the right and power to decide how anybody or anything outside ourselves will affect us.” —Stephen Covey.
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Stephen Covey: Change, choice and principles
”There are three constants in life… change, choice and principles.” —Stephen Covey.
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Stephen Covey: Motivation
”Motivation is a fire from within. If someone else tries to light that fire under you, chances are it will burn very briefly.” —Stephen Covey.
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Stephen Covey: Priorities
”The key is not to prioritize what’s on your schedule, but to schedule your priorities.” —Stephen Covey.
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Stephen Covey: Private victories
”Private victories precede public victories. You can’t invert that process any more than you can harvest a crop before you plant it.” —Stephen Covey
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Phantasms
I know them to be phantoms, Phantasms of the mind, Not mild, not benign, Malignant spectres Mocking my divine. —Linus Fernandes.
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Steven Wright: Skylight
“I installed a skylight in my apartment… the people who live above me are furious.” —Steven Wright, Comedian.
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Suhel Seth: Orwellian thinking
”We cannot have an India, which harks back to Orwellian thinking where everyone has to think alike in order to prove his or her nationalism. Nothing will be more dangerous for our country if we question every person’s (who we disagree with) nationalism. We need to take a deep breath and calm down.We are the…
