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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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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Cobb is a prick. But he sure can hit. God Almighty, that man can hit.
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But I had a very traditional background as well. My parents are neat people.
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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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Isn't it lovely to know that even the great Sherlock Holmes, the quirky and genius Sherlock Holmes, is vulnerable to love as we all are?
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'There is no situation so bad that the cops can't make it worse.'
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Owning great landmarks such as the Empire State Building or Trump Tower or the General Motors Building or the Plaza Hotel - there are certain just spectacular landmarks - it's an honor; it's really an honor.
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Privacy is something I have come to respect. I think when I was younger I wanted to tell everybody everything, because I thought I was so damn interesting. Then I heard the snoring.
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'One Minus One' and 'Barcelona, 1975' are more or less autobiographical.
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I loved 'Buddy Faro.' I loved the whole idea.
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All the arguments which are brought to represent poverty as no evil show it evidently to be a great evil.
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Languages, literature, art, music, history: are all self-evident helps - and even mathematics and sciences, by training memory and demanding the analytical approach, are helpful by indirection.
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What's happening now with technology is we live with very porous boundaries. All those little interruptions fragment our time and attention and make us feel like work never ends. It makes us feel like we don't ever have that sacred time for family or to breathe or meditate or for leisure. Time is contaminated for everyone. I'm hoping that as we get used to these technologies we'll get smarter about how we use them and also how to shut them off.
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I want everyone to wear what they want and mix it in their own way. That, to me, is what is modern.
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Teaching is a wonderful way to learn.
