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Sundar Pichai: Time travel
“I have a secret project which adds four hours every day to the 24 hours we have. There’s a bit of time travel involved.” —Sundar Pichai.
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Will Smith: Being realistic
“Being realistic is the most common path to mediocrity.” —Will Smith.
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Jimmy Kimmel: Real emotion
“Real emotion is good – or doing a good job of faking real emotion.” —Jimmy Kimmel.
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Ellen DeGeneres: 10% of our brains
“We use 10% of our brains. Imagine how much we could accomplish if we used the other 60%.” —Ellen DeGeneres.
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Benedict Cumberbatch: Comfort zone
“The further you get away from yourself, the more challenging it is. Not to be in your comfort zone is great fun.” —Benedict Cumberbatch.
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Paul Krugman: Even-handed
“The media are desperately afraid of being accused of bias. And that’s partly because there’s a whole machine out there, an organized attempt to accuse them of bias whenever they say anything that the Right doesn’t like. So rather than really try to report things objectively, they settle for being even-handed, which is not the…
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Adam Scott: Having a beard
“I like having a beard. What’s funny is when you shave a beard, you realize how freezing cold your face is! The primary purpose evolution-wise is to keep you warm, to grow hair on your face. You shave it off, and your face is freezing for a few days.” —Adam Scott.
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Thomas Edison: Doctor of the future
“The doctor of the future will give no medicine, but will instruct his patient in the care of the human frame, in diet and in the cause and prevention of disease.” —Thomas Edison.
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Simon Sinek: Leaders
“Leaders are the ones who have the courage to go first and open a path for others to follow.” —Simon Sinek.
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Jared Kushner: Age
“Age is a convenient barometer of what a person is capable of, but it is only one.” —Jared Kushner.
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George Eliot: Human choice
“The strongest principle of growth lies in human choice.” —George Eliot, writer.
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Jared Spool: Design
“Design is the rendering of intent.” —Jared Spool.
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Carrie Fisher: No point
“There is no point at which you can say, ‘Well, I’m successful now. I might as well take a nap.’” —Carrie Fisher.
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Gemma Chan: Technological progress
“In the past, we’ve always come up with new jobs for humans to do and so it’s always benefitted us, technological progress, but now we’re not really creating enough new jobs to replace the jobs that are being automated.” —Gemma Chan.
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Bernie Sanders: Human decisions
“The problems we face, did not come down from the heavens. They are made, they are made by bad human decisions, and good human decisions can change them.” —Bernie Sanders.
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Nawaz Sharif: Cornerstone
“Friendship with China is the cornerstone of Pakistan’s foreign policy.” —Nawaz Sharif.
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Jon Stewart: Internet
“The Internet is just a world passing around notes in a classroom.” —Jon Stewart.
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Shannen Doherty: Labels
“Labels are boring and often have nothing to with the person; it is just the way others perceive you, or choose to perceive you.” – – – Shannen Doherty.
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John Steinbeck: Sad soul
“A sad soul can kill you quicker than a germ.” —John Steinbeck.
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Simon Sinek: Three reasons it can
“The next time someone starts listing all the reasons an idea won’t work or can’t happen, ask them to give three reasons it can.” —Simon Sinek.
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Nicki Minaj: Success
“You wanna know what scares people? Success. When you don’t make moves and you don’t climb up the ladder, everybody loves you because you’re not competition.” ––Nicki Minaj.
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Ryan Holiday: Silence
“And that’s what is so insidious about talk. Anyone can talk about himself or herself. Even a child knows how to gossip and chatter. Most people are decent at hype and sales. So what is scarce and rare? Silence. The ability to deliberately keep yourself out of the conversation and subsist without its validation. Silence…
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Ed Sheeran: Come alive
“When the world’s against me is when I really come alive.” ––Ed Sheeran.
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Subramanian Swamy: Not a pacifist country
“India was not a pacifist country at all. India placed great emphasis on the higher value on… on violence. But it was never a substitute for not doing anything, or for cowardice.” —Subramanian Swamy.
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Arjun Kapoor: Preparation
“Preparation for any role is a must, so that when the shot is happening, it’s about reacting and living that moment. One must be so prepared that spontaneity comes!” – – – Arjun Kapoor.
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Ryan Seacrest: Crucial simplicity
“As much as we all talk about the future and how so many things are merging, there is a simplicity that is crucial.” —Ryan Seacrest.
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Ali Cottong: Trust
“Trust will become perhaps the most important design element in any system.” —Ali Cottong.
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Kim Kardashian: Media
“I would rather have been beaten up in the media than live a life that wasn’t happy.” —Kim Kardashian.
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Monica Lewinsky: Isolation
“Isolation is such a powerful tool to the subjugator.” —Monica Lewinsky.
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Salman Rushdie: Power
“Those who do not have power over the story that dominates their lives, power to retell it, rethink it, deconstruct it, joke about it, and change it as times change, truly are powerless, because they cannot think new thoughts.” —Salman Rushdie.
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Steve Jobs: Bicycle for our minds
“I read a study that measured the efficiency of locomotion for various species on the planet. The condor used the least energy to move a kilometre. And, humans came in with a rather unimpressive showing, about a third of the way down the list. It was not too proud a showing for the crown of…
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Nita Ambani: I’m Elizabeth Taylor
“My father-in-law saw me at a dance performance. The next day, I got a phone call, and the caller said, ‘I’m Dhirubhai Ambani… may I talk to Nita?’ I said, ‘It’s a wrong number’ and put down the phone. Then he called again… and I said, ‘If you’re Dhirubhai Ambani, then I’m Elizabeth Taylor.’” —Nita…
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Chandra Shekhar Azad: Success
“Don’t see others doing better than you, beat your own records everyday, because success is a fight between you and yourself.” —Chandra Shekhar Azad.
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Jennifer Lawrence: Scarecrow in real life
“I don’t really diet or anything. I’m miserable when I’m dieting and I like the way I look. I’m really sick of all these actresses looking like birds… I’d rather look a little chubby on camera and look like a person in real life, than look great on screen and look like a scarecrow in…
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Kelly Clarkson: Hope
“I’m actually not a big fan of the word hope. I think it’s a depressing word. I don’t want to hope – I want to know. Like I don’t hope there’s a God, I know there’s a God.” —Kelly Clarkson.
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Francis Bacon: Weigh and consider
“Read not to contradict and confute; nor to believe and take for granted; nor to find talk and discourse; but to weigh and consider.” —Francis Bacon.
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Ivanka Trump: All of us
“Just think how much better our world will be if ALL OF US, men and WOMEN, are empowered to dream big, aim high, and work together towards a more just and prosperous future. A future where all mothers and fathers can work hard and build a better life for their families – where all boys…
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Taron Egerton: Pressure
“To be perfectly honest, I like pressure. It’s something I find exciting. And I am the kind of personality that gets very bored very easily. The work I try and involve myself with is ordinarily determined by how much it sort of frightens me.” — Taron Egerton.
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Anna Kendrick: Ego in check
“If I took myself too seriously, I would be a mess every day because the world keeps my ego in check.” —Anna Kendrick.
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Anna Kendrick: Gentleman’s chess
“I think a gentleman is someone who holds the comfort of other people above their own. The instinct to do that is inside every good man, I believe. The rules about opening doors and buying dinner and all of that other ‘gentleman’ stuff is a chess game, especially these days.” —Anna Kendrick.
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Taron Egerton: Inflating
“People always say ‘humbling,’ but I actually think it’s quite inflating being nominated for an award. It’s wonderful; it’s a great feeling.” —Taron Egerton.
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Queen Latifah: From a young age
“I was taught from a young age that many people would treat me as a second-class citizen because I was African-American and because I was female.” —Queen Latifah.
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Rupert Wyatt: Success
“Success can create amazing opportunities but it can also bring a set of confines which make your decisions a little murkier.” —Rupert Wyatt.
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Jane Austen: Intolerably stupid
“The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.” ― Jane Austen.
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Stacey Dash: Integration
“The natural evolution of a well-educated populus is integration. And this is not political; it’s not theoretical; it’s not even partisan.” —Stacey Dash.
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Johnny Cash: Novels and Bible
“I read novels but I also read the Bible. And study it, you know? And the more I learn, the more excited I get.” —Johnny Cash.
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Elizabeth Taylor: I haven’t had tomorrow
“When people say, ‘She’s got everything’, I’ve got one answer – I haven’t had tomorrow.” —Elizabeth Taylor.
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Heather Locklear: Actress
“Anybody can say she’s an actress. It’s another thing to get a job.” —Heather Locklear.
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Kevin Smith: T-shirts and long pants
“T-shirts and long pants make me easier to find in a crowd, but also easy to disappear in a crowd because if I am wearing this and suddenly I am not, it’s like a Harry Potter invisibility cloak.” —Kevin Smith.
