Angela Duckworth Quotes
I think the very idea of character, of developing not just grit, but empathy and curiosity, emotional intelligence - you know, the things that I want my own daughters to develop - the idea that we're going to get there through rewards and punishments seems completely at odds with the idea of character itself.Angela Duckworth
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Edie Sedgwick had a cool style; she pushed the envelope for the time.
Taylor Momsen -
I realised that you couldn't use the tools of yesterday to communicate today's world. Basically, that was the big light that went on in my head.
Damien Hirst -
I love being a woman and I was not one of these women who rose through professional life by wearing men's clothes or looking masculine. I loved wearing bright colors and being who I am.
Madeleine Albright -
I eat lots of vegetables and green juices.
Venus Williams -
I'd love to play Moon Knight. I don't know if anybody's doing a Moon Knight animated series any time soon.
Yuri Lowenthal -
Los Angeles is peopled by waiters and carpenters and drivers who are there to be actors.
Patrick Duffy
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I found it an interesting portrait of a marriage in exploring notions of how one partner supports the other, whilst not jeopardizing the greater good - which is the family.
Rachel Griffiths -
The security link between us and Europe is very important for European security but also for our security.
Zbigniew Brzezinski -
A trade war would be a disaster for the world. It's very easy to slip into a trade war.
Jack Ma -
I've got ten pairs of trainers. That's one for every day of the week.
Samantha Fox -
As an actor, I've always said, half the audience is going to love you, half is going to hate you so just live with it. It's easier that way.
Ioan Gruffudd -
When we say a show is successful, it's because, relative to the investment, it's successful, relative to how else we would have spent that money on licensing something else, does this creation - did it attract the audience that it was built for.
Ted Sarandos
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You have been chosen, and you must therefore use such strength and heart and wits as you have.
J. R. R. Tolkien -
My first book was poetry, but I didn't write it first. I wrote it third. So my first two books were prose.
Tao Lin -
The mullahs are part of the past in Iran, not its future. But change in Iran will come through engagement, not through confrontation.
Zbigniew Brzezinski -
Everything in life has a price on it - there ain't a damn thing free in America, and football has got a price on it.
Earl Campbell -
I get really tired of hearing of all these old rockers whine and complain about how hard life on the road can be. Just stop if you don't like it. I don't think of it as work. I love it all.
Edgar Winter -
Jazz has been such a force in music, that any musician, including classical composers, have been influenced, and obviously performers, also.
Yo-Yo Ma
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I love making Italian food. And coconut chicken.
Joe Jonas Jonas Brothers -
There is a seeded bread that I bring from South Africa. I bring home 10, 20 loaves. I am so bad with this bread. I've literally been in hotels and brought my own: "Please, can you toast this? I have my own bread." They're like, "You have your own bread?" And I'll pull it out!
Oprah Winfrey -
Alas, I am dying beyond my means.
Oscar Wilde -
I always find filming stressful. I get very caught up thinking about my character - 'Am I doing it right? Should it be done this way?'
Naomie Harris -
I think the very idea of character, of developing not just grit, but empathy and curiosity, emotional intelligence - you know, the things that I want my own daughters to develop - the idea that we're going to get there through rewards and punishments seems completely at odds with the idea of character itself.
Angela Duckworth