Angela Duckworth Quotes
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I want to coach high school football, and that's always what I've wanted to do.
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'Henry V' is a great deal more than almost any other hell-bent-for-armor movie that you've seen.
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At some point, you grow out of being attracted to that flame that burns you over and over and over again.
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You must avoid giving hostages to fortune, like getting an expensive wife, an expensive house, and a style of living that never lets you aford the time to take the chance to write what you wish.
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I worry about people who sell out to chase fame because when they get it, it might not be so satisfying.
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Now, everybody knows my music. So that's really cool. A lot of kids know it. Now, when I go to a sports game, everybody knows my name.
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Some have suffered death to make it possible for us to have the scriptures today. Historically, the scriptures in the Bible were reserved for the clergy, with the reading of them by others being denounced. At times, laws even prohibited the public or private reading of them.
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One's own religion is after all a matter between oneself and one's Maker and no one else's.
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I shall have a beautiful dream tonight. I also wish everyone to have a beautiful dream.
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I love the creativity of New York, but I don't enjoy the city - I don't like living here.
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The electroencephalogram represents a continuous curve with continuous oscillations in which... one can distinguish larger first order waves with an average duration of 90 milliseconds and smaller second order waves of an average duration of 35 milliseconds.
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The entrepreneurial bug had already bitten my son Ankur by the time he got to college. As a lifelong entrepreneur, I certainly didn't want to dampen his enthusiasm by telling him he couldn't do it, but I also wanted to make sure it was balanced with the proper attention to his studies.
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If you turn the other cheek, you can be enslaved for 1,000 years.
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I have won the most national titles as a German, so what should I do after that? Lay back and take it easy? That's not how I am.
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I'm really silly. That's the thing that people don't get.
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Musical theater is one of my passions.
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Real tolerance means respecting other people even when they baffle you and you have no idea why they think what they think.
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In 1853, American warships bullied Japan out of centuries of virtual isolation and into the modern world. The threat of force compelled Japan, like India and China before it, to accept trade agreements that were economically ruinous and eroded national sovereignty.
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In mathematics the complicated things are reduced to simple things. So it is in painting.
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You can't live someone else's expectations in life. It's a recipe for disaster.
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In the same way we have a long-term plan for building roads, we have to have a long term plan to build transit.
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Truth is life's most precious commodity.
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Life is a book that never ends. Chapters close, but not the book itself. The end of one physical incarnation is like the end of a chapter, on some level setting up the beginning of another.
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Grit is living life like it's a marathon, not a sprint.
