Carol S. Dweck Quotes
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My sisters are amazing. My sister is my business partner, my twin. She's an amazing producer, writer. You know, we're just grinding and trying to make my mother proud as well as God.
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In politics, the reaction to a controversy is very often more enlightening and important than the details of the allegations themselves.
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There's a generation of people who've made their own money and are among the most generous people you would ever meet.
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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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Women I admired growing up - Debra Winger, Diane Keaton, Meryl Streep - were all beautiful and thin, but not too thin. There are a lot of actresses who are unhealthy-skinny - much, much too skinny. You can't Pilates to that.
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I went from not knowing anything to becoming really curious and wanting to know and respecting people in the industry, realizing how hard they work. I will always be thankful for 'Top Model' for that.
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I booked my first series when I was 13. Acting kind of took control because I was just going from part to part at that point.
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The public is even more pessimistic about the economy than even the most bearish economists are.
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I don't keep my secrets or my knowledge to myself.
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I eat healthy and don't even get on a scale. I have my favorite jeans that I wear, and if they are getting too snug, I watch what I eat for a week.
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Courage is the greatest of all virtues, because if you haven't courage, you may not have an opportunity to use any of the others.
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My parents always went to rallies and demonstrated against certain things; my generation, we often have a political conscience, but we're not that involved.
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A steady job is at least as deleterious to the spirit of bachelorhood as a steady date. Some jobs are worse than actual wives.
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Indeed, it is not too much to say that the normal relation of States is war.
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The pitch for the show, the real pitch, when Larry and I went to NBC in 1988, was we want to show how a comedian gets his material. The show about nothing was just a joke in an episode many years later, and Larry and I to this day are surprised that it caught on as a way that people describe the show, because to us it's the opposite of that.
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In Puritan thinking, the Christian life was a heroic venture, requiring a full quota of energy.
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Gold's was the first bodybuilding gym made for bodybuilders.
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People go to their jobs and hate it every day, but they have great ideas. Put that same time and effort into something you love - it really starts with being honest with yourself.
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When I'm filming, survival requires movement. You need your energy, and you've got to eat the bad stuff, and survival food is rarely pretty, but you kind of do it. I get in that zone, and I eat the nasty stuff, but I'm not like that when I'm back home.
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The Holy Spirit wants to convert the words of Scripture into transformed personalities.
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Chase your dreams but always know the road that will lead you home again.
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The importance of the arts to the societies in which they thrive is well documented.
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Give more than is expected, love more than seems wise, serve more than seems necessary, and help more than is asked.
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A company that cannot self-correct cannot thrive.
