Lincoln Steffens Quotes
One improvement I have learned from my childhood experience with my father: I do not threaten punishment in the morning. That was awful. Late into the night I would lie awake tossing and wondering what he was going to do to me. Usually he did nothing. A quiet, impressive 'talking to' was all I got.
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Most of my songs have names of people I've met or are dear to me. There are people who have privacy issues and about people knowing about their private life. But for me, I like to include few special names and few details about them to make the song very special to me.
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I feel like an alien. I feel people don't like me. People behaved strangely after 'Rockstar.'
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I don't read novels, but my semiotics study influenced everything about the way I read and edit and write.
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The first and worst of all frauds is to cheat oneself.
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There is only one way... to get anybody to do anything. And that is by making the other person want to do it.
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I love theater. I love the idea that you can transform, become somebody else, and look at life with a completely new perspective. I love the idea that people will sit in one room for a couple of hours and listen.
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It takes one person to give you a big chance.
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Maybe I'm just purely lucky. If I've come up against obstacles I've always found another way around it.
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They should have a rule: in order to be a sportswriter, you have to have played that sport, at some level; high school, college, junior college, somewhere. Or, you should have had to have been around the game for a long time.
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Gender equality and women's empowerment have been a top priority for me from day one as Secretary-General. And I am committed to making sure that the U.N. leads by example.
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I am not trying to make an image; I am an actor trying to sell movies.
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Even as technology becomes increasingly critical to the way we live our lives, power our world and defend our shores, the United States has allowed the production of minerals crucial in the creation of these advanced products to slide.
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The bottom line is that there is a lot more that could and should be done to help people with nutrition and exercise.
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People get numbed when they see picture after picture, year in and year out, of people starving.
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My mother would give my brothers and me a pile of catalogues and let us pick what we wanted for Christmas.
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No man was ever great by imitation.
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I never took guitar lessons. I took classical piano lessons from the age of six when we lived in Holland.
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Globalised manufacturing and procurement mean that a lot of high-polluting, heavy duty jobs are transferred to China. We will ask major companies, such as Wal-Mart, Microsoft and IBM to put pressure on their Chinese suppliers.
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My kids are really easy. I often worry that they're too easy to deal with. They're really nice people.
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I mean I don't really think about it. You know, do you know what I often say to myself? I think you're very lucky in life if you know what you want to do.
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From fully funding nutrition programs to protecting children from liquid nicotine poisoning, I have focused many of my efforts in Congress on advocating for polices that invest in our most valuable resource - our children.
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There's a lot of young actors and people who have success very quickly who kind of expect it or don't have the experience to really appreciate it.
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If I don't get a chance to play with my son in the morning, I feel like I missed something that I'll never get back. It's such a joy to wake up and be in the mindset of a five-year-old before transitioning into the role of 'executive.'
Biz Stone -
One improvement I have learned from my childhood experience with my father: I do not threaten punishment in the morning. That was awful. Late into the night I would lie awake tossing and wondering what he was going to do to me. Usually he did nothing. A quiet, impressive 'talking to' was all I got.
