Angela Duckworth Quotes
My dad was not super-intentional in his parenting. He was very self-absorbed. I won't say mean or selfish per se, but very self-absorbed. I think he was just thinking out loud.Angela Duckworth
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I'm good at description and imparting flow to a story, but I don't necessarily understand the value of long scenes.
Karan Mahajan -
Stars arrive on their own timetable.
Cameron Crowe -
What Washington needs is adult supervision.
Barack Obama -
I see the city as an organism, shaped through time by the little humans having habits and doing millions of stuff in and out of it.
Olivier Theyskens -
Being famous was extremely disappointing for me. When I became famous it was a complete drag and it is still a complete drag.
Van Morrison -
The main essentials of a successful prime minister are sleep and a sense of history.
Harold Wilson
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I am very outspoken, obviously, and I should say that I can't judge anyone for doing anything.
Kat Dennings -
I remember clearly, when I was about 4, my Aunt Linda said, 'I'm not babysitting him no more. He's bad.' It was one of the first conscious shifts I remember making. I decided, 'I'm going to be good now.'
Mahershala Ali -
Religion is absolutely unfathomable. Always and everywhere one can dig more deeply into infinities.
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel -
In my ideal world there would be 99% unemployment for actors, and I would be the 1% that's employed. I hear about somebody getting a job at Starbucks and I get jealous.
Hamish Linklater -
I don't want to be liked. I want to be respected.
Jack Ma -
There once was a demographic survey done to determine if money was connected to happiness and Ireland was the only place where this did not turn out to be true.
Fiona Shaw
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I've always been blessed with confidence. I am a glass-half-full person. My first movie, 'Private Benjamin,' got turned down by every studio until the very last one, but I just kept thinking, 'Why are you people not seeing that this is a hit movie? What is wrong with you?'
Nancy Meyers -
You always gotta be on time, an hour ahead of everything. You always gotta be prepared.
Beanie Sigel -
It is your work in life that is the ultimate seduction.
Pablo Picasso -
I come with bad genetics, personally.
J. B. Pritzker -
I love to see my family together. That's what life is about. It's about family.
Ja Rule -
I'm very much in favor of focused responsibility, and so in the main areas that I'm worried about, I try to have a single person who is basically the key person in that area.
Warren Christopher
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I vividly remember Charles Bronson's face in 'Chino.' The western genre is screaming for a face like that.
Mads Mikkelsen -
I work to create systems that can accurately detect pandemics early, determine their likely importance, and, with any luck, crush those that have the potential to devastate us.
Nathan Wolfe -
She told me I wasn't playing for the coach, I was playing for myself.
Eric Dickerson -
I think that America is more diverse than ever before, and is continuing to become more diverse, and our content should and is reflecting that.
Will Packer -
You study all your life, you work really hard to do your best work onstage and onscreen, and then you make your best money playing an ant.
Alex Rocco -
My dad was not super-intentional in his parenting. He was very self-absorbed. I won't say mean or selfish per se, but very self-absorbed. I think he was just thinking out loud.
Angela Duckworth