Angela Duckworth Quotes
It is important to realize that the process of 'fostering' a passion takes trial and error. It takes experience; you cannot do it all in your head. And it takes a long time.
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Let's judge a man on what he's done.
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I voted for Barack Obama.
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With the rapid growth of Internet users in China bringing online video into a new paradigm, the market scale we first envisioned as an online video website back in 2006 has grown significantly.
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When I was about four, people used to walk up to my mom and say I should be in commercials.
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Personality is an unbroken series of successful gestures.
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Corruption is in society and in every strata of society.
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I think that we, as a civilization, need to sit down and figure out how to solve political problems over a table, not over a battlefield.
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Wickets are like wives. You never know what to expect from them.
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The final phone call that said we're going to be picked up again was just a miracle. We've overcome the impossible and we're still pushing forward. I know John is smiling and so happy that he gets to watch us on TV.
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I was not emotionally mature enough to accept any kind of success when I was young. I needed to go that long route.
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Honestly, all the sweets and bad stuff on set don't really call to me because I'm working so much. I've trained myself to stay away from sugar.
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I would prefer to have a more appealing job. If I could still change careers, I would prefer it. This unfortunate art is made for long beards and ugly faces rather than for a relatively well-endowed woman.
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Stages are getting higher and higher, and I'm getting older and older.
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I knew I would get offers to play the villain after 'Kick,' and I had already decided to reject all of them.
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First and foremost, I feel very lucky to have the family I have, so I would like my family to stay happy and healthy.
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The Arab Awakening or Arab Spring has transformed the geopolitical landscape.
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Every 20 minutes you've got to have a bump, you've got to have a change in course, you've got to unsettle the audience. It can't be too predictable so something has to happen. I think that was something that Hitchcock did very well too. You couldn't let an audience feel too settled in.
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The thing that bothers me about journalism is the false equivalency we sometimes place on certain issues.
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Deny the world, defy the devil, despise the flesh, and delight yourself only in the Lord.
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I'm a late-night host that doesn't want to be tied down by time or television or even hosting.
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People take issue with individual aspects of Wikipedia all the time. But it's kind of hard to hate the general idea of a free encyclopedia. It's like hating kittens.
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I like to go back to Chinese film-making from time to time. I don't think I can make Chinese films back to back; it's such a big effort. I'd have to take a very long break.
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The sciences have ever been the surest guides to virtue.
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It is important to realize that the process of 'fostering' a passion takes trial and error. It takes experience; you cannot do it all in your head. And it takes a long time.
