Carol S. Dweck Quotes
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I usually say I left puberty at 58.
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Most of the offers I get from Hollywood are for teen comedies. My manager thinks I'm crazy for turning down all that money, but I'm very picky.
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I mean Afghanistan is a very rugged, complicated country.
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Anything - a destination, a person - that has some mystery around it becomes exciting and attractive.
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Sure, I'll have characters drop in and out of books but the main cast of characters always changes. Maybe I'm wrong but I think if had the same joe detective guy or gal, I wouldn't write them as well; I wouldn't do as good a job.
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No flying machine will ever fly from New York to Paris.
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The fashion industry certainly has its obscene sides. The cost of a coat can be obscene. So can the cost of a photo shoot if you're working with a really good photographer.
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I am wired like a CEO and care a great deal about the bottom line, but I care about my customers even more than that. That's always been my competitive advantage.
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I was lucky to have my allergist who diagnosed me with CIU.
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This solution may not appeal to our human pride, but the problem is that our human pride in itself is sinful.
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Take heed, then, often to come together to give thanks to God, and show forth His praise. For when you assemble frequently in the same place, the powers of Satan are destroyed, and the destruction at which he aims is prevented by the unity of your faith.
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I came, I studied architecture in America, so my technical background's completely western. But my seventeen years, the formative years of one's life, and I can't say that the Chineseness in me is not there.
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I'm not the hands-on guy. I like writing the check, and I turn it over to the guys that make it happen, much like the way I ran my business.
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You were born as the one you are.
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I don't wanna be Courtney Love - I wanna be Kurt Cobain.
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The big thing in my family growing up is that everybody had to play a musical instrument. We were like the von Trapps.
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God knows, we don't want prayer.
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The sanctions will not kill us. It's apartheid that's killing us.
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The Korean people have always been more outward-looking than their insecure leaders, and for centuries this was especially true of those in the northern part of the peninsula.
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Sometimes I like to vent.
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I wrote the books I should have liked to read. That's always been my reason for writing. People won't write the books I want, so I have to do it for myself.
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Decent easy men, who supinely enjoyed the gifts of the founder.
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I never choose jobs because of what I think I should do. I want to feel something. And with 'Beast,' it was very much like that.
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Why seek out the tried and true, instead of experiences that will stretch you?
