Angela Duckworth Quotes
Why do some people try, try again, and why do some people not? That's what I'm after.
Angela Duckworth
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When I was on 'Trauma,' the first order was six, which turned to 12, and then there were rumors of getting cancelled. I'm used to that.
Taylor Kinney
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I don't keep people around me that aren't family. You don't get to stay. Unless you're eating at the table with us, you're not part. We eat together, we cry together, we live together, we die together. Everything that we do is for each other, and we care for another.
Lady Gaga
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Any constitutional amendment that simply gives Congress the option of regulating campaign finance fails to immediately achieve what the American people want, and that is a complete reversal of Citizens United and other Supreme Court decisions that have allowed corporations and the wealthy few to drown out the voices of everyday voters.
Ted Deutch
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The search for knowledge is a long and difficult task.
Fabiola Gianotti
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The idea of revenge coming from a 14-year-old girl isn't, you know, exactly right.
Hailee Steinfeld
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I want to be able to make people laugh and cry and feel happy or sad and feel all these different emotions through singing and acting. Hopefully throughout my career, I'll get to pursue them.
Olivia Holt
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Christianity is completely and radically anti-democratic; it is committed to spiritual aristocracy.
R.J. Rushdoony
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The programmer, who needs clarity, who must talk all day to a machine that demands declarations, hunkers down into a low-grade annoyance. It is here that the stereotype of the programmer, sitting in a dim room, growling from behind Coke cans, has its origins. The disorder of the desk, the floor; the yellow Post-It notes everywhere; the whiteboards covered with scrawl: all this is the outward manifestation of the messiness of human thought. The messiness cannot go into the program; it piles up around the programmer.
Ellen Ullman
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The Upper Bohemia people wore tuxedos in an art gallery, and Lower Bohemia was all of us.
David Amram
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It's weird how your perspective changes. At the start of your career, you think, 'I just want to do cutting-edge work that makes people think.' Now, I would do a blockbuster in a heartbeat.
Matthew Rhys
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I never like being touched, ever. People used to say I held my breath when they were hugging me. I still do.
Angelina Jolie
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Why do some people try, try again, and why do some people not? That's what I'm after.
Angela Duckworth
