Shawn Achor Quotes
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What's interesting about Stephen Baldwin is that me and Dana Gould were originally cast for 'Bio-Dome' – but Pauly Shore and Baldwin ended up doing it. So there's a little movie trivia for ya.
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I haven't reported my missing credit card to the police because whoever stole it is spending less than my wife.
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I grew up very self-loathing. I was a phobic. I had anxiety. I had panic attacks.
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I used to get a shiver if I thought about holding balloons, because I was scared of floating away.
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I'm aware that given what I've done in the past - and having a well-known parent - that people will be very quick to judge my path more than others, but I have to just not care.
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Urban residents, most of them middle class, have a much better sense of their environmental rights, and they're willing to take to the streets.
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I've never been against women. That anti-feminist rap is bogus. I think men should be nice to women, buy them diamonds.
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Homosexuals reject the process of healing because it's too painful and time-consuming.
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I used to like to set different film clips to classical music, not even my own songs, but make little movies.
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There are as many forms of happiness as sorrow, though most prove fleeting.
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I do have, like, a regular childhood. I mean, I'm treated the same.
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I've been around the bend in corporations.
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In transition I think the spirit goes somewhere, but I don't think it leaves.
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To all those who have suffered as a consequence of our troubled past I extend my sincere thoughts and deep sympathy. With the benefit of historical hindsight we can all see things which we would wish had been done differently or not at all.
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Giving subsidies is a two-edged sword. Once you give it, it's very hard to take away subsidies. There's a political cost to taking away subsidies.
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Beating cancer is personal battle. It was one of the toughest opponents I have faced so far, and I think I did reasonably well. Touch wood.
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Growing up I studied classically and did lots of shows in school.
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I'm obsessed with the moon and space travel, so if I could incorporate that, I'd love to go to space.
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I grew up in a very strong, nuclear family. My father was a sportsman. He represented South Africa in a couple of sports, so he was a very positive person and someone who encouraged you to be your best and give your best with everything that you do.
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I'm taking all the negatives in my life, and turning them into a positive.
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My wife was the first romantic partner who understood both American and native parts of me - not so much the positive stuff, but the damage.
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Certain people can keep a word tune, so to speak, and certain people cannot. And, above all, certain people can tell a story, and other people can't. They don't hear that point where something else has to come.
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Once you realize that trickle-down economics does not work, you will see the excessive tax cuts for the rick as what they are -- a simple upward redistribution of income, rather than a way to make all of us richer, as we were told.
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We become more successful when we are happier and more positive.
