Avinash Dixit Quotes
Putting yourself in others’ shoes so as to predict and influence what they will do.
Avinash Dixit
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When you feel bad on the inside, you wind up wanting to do things to make others feel bad. In contrast, when you feel happy on the inside, you want to do things to make others feel happy.
Karen Salmansohn
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The act of writing requires a constant plunging back into the shadow of the past where time hovers ghostlike.
Ralph Ellison
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I was often told that I wasn't a thing. 'She's not pretty enough. She's not tall enough. She's not thin enough. She's not fat enough.' I thought, 'O.K., someday you're going to be looking for someone not, not, not, not, and there I'll be.'
Frances McDormand
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Number one, cash is king... number two, communicate... number three, buy or bury the competition.
Jack Welch
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I love the beach. I love the sea. All my life I live within - in front of the sea.
Rafael Nadal
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Despotism is a long crime.
Victor Hugo
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I think one of my first jokes - in the black community, there's people who have jokes about skin tone. People like, 'You so black, you purple.' 'You so black, you gotta smile so we can see you at night.'
Hannibal Buress
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There's a side to you as an actor, a selfish side, that wants to go on and play different roles.
Katee Sackhoff
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When I was signed, that was before the punk thing even happened.
Kate Bush
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No one in my family is in entertainment. They thought acting was a fun hobby, and when I got a degree, I'd settle down.
Hannah Murray
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I had heard about how people struggle and how hard it is to get into acting. But I did not care because it's something I love.
Bai Ling
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I have always felt that a woman has the right to treat the subject of her age with ambiguity until, perhaps, she passes into the realm of over ninety. Then it is better she be candid with herself and with the world.
Carl Sandburg
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To you, W. B. Yeats, good praiser, wholesome dispraiser, heavy-handed judge, open-handed helper of us all, I offer a play of my plays for every night of the week, because you like them, and because you have taught me my trade.
Lady Gregory
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I have to do this my way.
W. Mark Felt
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I don't take sports seriously although I like that Scottish thing where they throw the poles. I'm down with that.
Peter Buck
R.E.M.
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Tell me", he wanted to say, "everything in the whole world" - for he had the wildest, most absurd, extravagant ideas about poets and poetry - but how to speak to a man who does not see you? who sees ogres, satyrs, perhaps the depth of the sea instead?
Virginia Woolf
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It would be nice to say the rich people, the fancy people, all behaved like bastards and the poor slobs all came through like heroes. But as a matter of fact, sometimes the poor slobs behave like slobs and the great, noble, privileged characters come off very well, indeed.
Walter Lord
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Putting yourself in others’ shoes so as to predict and influence what they will do.
Avinash Dixit
