Angela Duckworth Quotes
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I want to coach high school football, and that's always what I've wanted to do.
J. J. Watt -
At some point, you grow out of being attracted to that flame that burns you over and over and over again.
Taylor Swift -
You must avoid giving hostages to fortune, like getting an expensive wife, an expensive house, and a style of living that never lets you aford the time to take the chance to write what you wish.
Irwin Shaw -
I worry about people who sell out to chase fame because when they get it, it might not be so satisfying.
Imelda May -
Now, everybody knows my music. So that's really cool. A lot of kids know it. Now, when I go to a sports game, everybody knows my name.
Nat Wolff -
One's own religion is after all a matter between oneself and one's Maker and no one else's.
Mahatma Gandhi
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I love the creativity of New York, but I don't enjoy the city - I don't like living here.
Zubin Mehta -
The electroencephalogram represents a continuous curve with continuous oscillations in which... one can distinguish larger first order waves with an average duration of 90 milliseconds and smaller second order waves of an average duration of 35 milliseconds.
Hans Berger -
The entrepreneurial bug had already bitten my son Ankur by the time he got to college. As a lifelong entrepreneur, I certainly didn't want to dampen his enthusiasm by telling him he couldn't do it, but I also wanted to make sure it was balanced with the proper attention to his studies.
Naveen Jain -
If you turn the other cheek, you can be enslaved for 1,000 years.
Malcolm X -
I have won the most national titles as a German, so what should I do after that? Lay back and take it easy? That's not how I am.
Bastian Schweinsteiger -
I'm really silly. That's the thing that people don't get.
Taraji P. Henson
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Musical theater is one of my passions.
Patrick Wilson -
Real tolerance means respecting other people even when they baffle you and you have no idea why they think what they think.
G. Willow Wilson -
In 1853, American warships bullied Japan out of centuries of virtual isolation and into the modern world. The threat of force compelled Japan, like India and China before it, to accept trade agreements that were economically ruinous and eroded national sovereignty.
Pankaj Mishra -
I have admired David Bromley's work for years. He possesses such a wild and vivid imagination and really sees the beauty in everything.
Mallory Jansen -
I myself prefer my New Zealand eggs for breakfast.
Queen Elizabeth II -
I'm ready for a different America.
Gary Johnson
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The more the data banks record about each one of us, the less we exist.
Marshall McLuhan -
Liking one person is an extra reason for liking another.
E. M. Forster -
It is not only fine feathers that make fine birds.
Aesop -
Here is Menard's own intimate forest: 'Now I am traversed by bridle paths, under the seal of sun and shade...I live in great density...Shelter lures me. I slump down into the thick foliage...In the forest, I am my entire self. Everything is possible in my heart just as it is in the hiding places in ravines. Thickly wooded distance separates me from moral codes and cities.
Gaston Bachelard -
Grit is living life like it's a marathon, not a sprint.
Angela Duckworth