Chris Hughes Quotes
I'm the kind of person that needs to think things through. But when I know what I want to do, I really know.
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You are dealing with people who have taken the responsibility of killing their own because they think that they are right, they think that they are serving the interests of their people. They not going to give that up easily, just because you've shown up.
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Of course, giving is deeply emotional. But supplementing emotion with research makes it more likely that a gift can have a bigger impact. It's like any investment. After all, you wouldn't put funds into stocks or bonds without understanding the potential return. Why wouldn't you do the same when investing in society?
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My generation of bossy, confident, baby-boom women were something brand new in history. Our energy and assertiveness weren't created by Betty Friedan, unknown before her 1963 book, or by Gloria Steinem, whose political activism, as even the Lifetime profile admitted, did not begin until 1969.
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Every time you make a guess of what a judge is going to do... you're wrong, so I try to stay away from that.
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Just for you to know, people, models, are very smart. We're investing money in the right way, and, you know, a modeling job I'm taking as a businesswoman. So it's not fun for me; it's work.
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We are redefining and we are restating our socialism in terms of the scientific revolution.
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If haters or whatever want to find you - I mean, some of them are so tenacious. You want to hire them to work for you. They're very, very savvy in terms of how they find you and get to you.
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But anyone who knows anything about the music industry knows it's not only about the music.
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When I was five years old, I auditioned for the role of 'Tiny Tim in A Christmas Carol.'
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My mum was a nurse, and her passion was geriatric care. I used to love listening to the old people's stories in her nursing home and picturing myself in their place. They'd say, 'I went to school in a horse and cart,' and I'd just think 'Wow!' I'd picture myself in their place - acting was a natural progression.
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I'm German in my mind, but from a Germany that doesn't exist any more.
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Every year, you have to keep adjusting. I'm 28; I'm not 19 anymore. You have to work harder now.
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Our job as friends, mentors, parents, and writing coaches is not to write anyone's college essay. That's cheating. Plus, it sends a discouraging message to the teenager that he or she can't be trusted with this important assignment. Trust the student to write the essay, but verify that it gets done. Gentle editing and proofreading are allowed.
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I lived for four years in the 1930s with these individuals and the only time that I wasn't thinking about dealing with physical suffering is when I was working on this book. I've never been more alive as when I worked on this book.
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I admire many people, but I am not sure that I have any 'heroes.'
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I've traveled to many countries in Africa, and to me, Benin felt the most hopeful.
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Feel ashamed of my generation. We've let down our children and their children.
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I'm a very loyal person and I allowed myself to be defined as somebody who was doing Gordon's bidding. I should have fought back harder to define myself at an earlier stage.
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In the 1970s, I did a Ph.D. with Fred Sanger in Cambridge who was in the process of inventing ways to map what's inside DNA. He later won the Nobel Prize.
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Beholding the bright countenance of truth in the quiet and still air of delightful studies.
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I don't particularly follow the Bauhaus school of design, where you make everything into a black box - simplify it.
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I myself get nervous when I write something on social media. I make sure I don't write anything wrong.
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I'm the kind of person that needs to think things through. But when I know what I want to do, I really know.
