Shawn Achor Quotes
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Anything that looks good makes you feel better.
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I'm on Facebook anonymously. I wanted to see how people use it, what's going on there, but I personally didn't want to be on it because everybody in the world tries to get to you with scripts.
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I had such an amazing experience on 'The Pillowman' that it was hard to think what else is going to live up to that.
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All of my businesses are profitable.
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We need to understand the difference between freedom of religion - which is absolutely guaranteed and I would fervently defend. Sharia law is politics; it's not religion. If you say that a woman is voluntarily going to be of lesser value than a man, which is in sharia law, can we allow that?
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Cricket pays well, so a lot of people are naturally drawn towards the game. But to carve a niche in non-cricket sports is not easy. So state governments need to be proactive. Indians need to be made aware of the power of an Olympic medal. It should be treated at par with an Oscars or a Nobel Prize.
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We all have our likes and our dislikes. But... when we're doing news - when we're doing the front-page news, not the back page, not the op-ed pages, but when we're doing the daily news, covering politics - it is our duty to be sure that we do not permit our prejudices to show. That is simply basic journalism.
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Some economists believe that the Greeks' work ethic and thrift can pull them through. But the classical virtues can do nothing to offset the dearth of innovation that plagues the economy.
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Freud had a gene for inefficiency, and I think I have a gene for efficiency.
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Infectious diseases introduced with Europeans, like smallpox and measles, spread from one Indian tribe to another, far in advance of Europeans themselves, and killed an estimated 95% of the New World's Indian population.
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I started out in the journalism program, but I got kicked out. I wasn't very good at it. It wasn't where I wanted to be ultimately.
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For me, 'Blade Runner' is the best science-fiction film ever made.
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It is important that we relish the food we eat. If we cannot do this, but eat mechanically, our food does not do us that good it should, and we fail to be nourished and built up by it as we otherwise would be, if we could enjoy the food we take into the stomach.
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I think I've always been interested in playing people who are judged very harshly.
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Richard Madden, I loved to work alongside him; he's a very funny man.
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I've always been fastball-curveball and really relied on that pitch, and when it goes away, it just totally changes how you attack hitters.
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We would rather have our employees running our business.
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You can do the same thing with $20 million that you would do with $50 million. So at a certain point in your life and in your career, you realise that it's not about the money.
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I have a bad memory - thank God for that!
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I love my family; they're such great people and they really love what I do.
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I am not a lonely person. I am happily married and not looking for companions on social media.
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I like to dress conservatively because then the outrageous things you say are even more outrageous.
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Chevy Stevens is in top form. ALWAYS WATCHING is a tense and twisty exploration of dark memories, hidden pasts, and a place that seems like heaven but might be hell. This is a deep and exciting novel, as unsettling as it is gripping.
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You can study gravity forever without learning how to fly.
