Carol S. Dweck Quotes
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I enjoy money. Not enough people in this world are happy. I'm determined to be contented, and having plenty of money from working makes it easier for me.
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Congress can protect small businesses by providing effective oversight over SBA policies and make sure they take into account the needs of small businesses while also protecting taxpayer dollars. Congress also needs to make sure that new banking regulations do not make it more costly for community banks to lend to small businesses.
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The scene that has raised the most objections in 'The Interview' is at the very end, when Kim's head dissolves into flames. To me, it feels gratuitous.
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I have a deep and ongoing love of Iceland, particular the landscape, and when writing 'Burial Rites,' I was constantly trying to see whether I could distill its extraordinary and ineffable qualities into a kind of poetry.
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We Negro writers, just by being black, have been on the blacklist all our lives. Censorship for us begins at the color line.
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I used to draw and make plastic figurines and watch 'Wallace and Gromit' films.
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I was an intimate sort of child who never spoke up in groups. I preferred close friends.
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If people don't have a job, they're not too interested in how you intend for them to have a job. They want to see results.
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I am a big fan of the Gallagher brothers. At Liverpool, they came a few times; they are friends of Steven Gerrard. It was nice to meet them. When I was in Spain, I couldn't speak English, so I couldn't understand the lyrics. When I came to England, I started studying music and trying to understand what my favourite songs said.
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Cobb is a prick. But he sure can hit. God Almighty, that man can hit.
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I don't keep my secrets or my knowledge to myself.
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But I had a very traditional background as well. My parents are neat people.
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I made a few records here and there by default, but I wasn't ever comfortable in that role. I wasn't comfortable on stage. We'll see how it goes this time.
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The S.B.A. does not lend directly to businesses, but instead backs loans to encourage banks to invest in small businesses as part of a nearly $90 billion portfolio.
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Religion is love; in no case is it logic.
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I think there's much more fashion competition in the more junior levels of the fashion department. And that's exciting and stimulating to see, because it's 'Vogue;' it's great to see people dressed originally and with great style and panache. It wouldn't be 'Vogue' otherwise.
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I would have 55 dogs if I could. I'm hoping one day to open my own shelter.
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I learnt from Armstrong on the early recordings that you never sang a song the same way twice.
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Over the years, black leaders have been slow to recognize the need for a very, very progressive agenda. Anytime someone has talked about putting America back to work, blacks should have said yes, but they didn't. They were so preoccupied with affirmative action that they didn't provide the kind of leadership that would help some of the other progressive folks. Only now are black leaders beginning to realize the impact of economic issues.
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To emphasize only the beautiful seems to me to be like a mathematical system that only concerns itself with positive numbers.
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That country where it is always turning late in the year. That country where the hills are fog and the rivers are mist; where noons go quickly, dusks and twilights linger, and midnights stay. That country composed in the main of cellars, sub-cellars, coal-bins, closets, attics, and pantries faced away from the sun. That country whose people are autumn people, thinking only autumn thoughts. Whose people passing at night on the empty walks sound like rain.
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Music means harmony, harmony means love. Love means God.
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A sack is way better than any nightclub. A touchdown is way better than any bar experience I've ever had.
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Teaching is a wonderful way to learn.
