Angela Duckworth Quotes
I define talent as the rate at which you get better at something when you try. To be very talented means you get better faster and more easily than other people or other things that you try.
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The thing about Y Combinator that's cool is that most companies won't happen if we don't fund them.
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I've always loved to dress up a bit and show off.
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I don't think that any political party should claim Jesus as being a part of a political party.
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After six years without seeing one, I love just seeing a smile - every smile I see gives me hope.
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I don't know if I would say that I'm specifically a history buff. I do find a lot of things fascinating, especially anything that's bizarre or mysterious and unknown and we don't have all the answers for.
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It is good to be in front of the lens to appreciate more being behind the lens.
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There is a strong sentiment within the Tea Party that favors a stronger America on the global stage, and with that comes a strong alliance with the State of Israel.
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I plan to go to university - but for sure, acting is what I want to do. It's a hard business, but I believe in my heart that I'll be doing it for a very long time.
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I just don't think men fancy me.
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A novel, I think, is partly about the contemporary and partly about the eternal, and it's the balance of that that's difficult to achieve.
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Never eat spinach just before going on the air.
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There comes a time when every scientist, even God, has to write off an experiment.
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All people, regardless of whether they're athletes or not, should treat people the way they want to be treated.
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I got disappointed in human nature as well and gave it up because I found it too much like my own.
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The success of Torn was a bit too much for me. I took a year off and was still scared to start the second album.
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For my life, I need to make my own choices.
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We cannot change the cards we are dealt, just how we play the game.
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'Power Play' is a morality tale for our post-Enron world and - not incidentally - wildly entertaining. Nothing wrong with that.
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You have to learn to fight for things, to bear the burden and have a life which does not in any way correspond to other peoples' lives.
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My son, there's nothing insignificant,Nothing! But yet in every earthly thingFirst and most principal is place and time.
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I'm proud that I have done so many different kinds of things and maintained an amazing family. And I think that's the joy: that I've been able to have everything.
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You have two choices: You can take what you're given or build with what you've got. I choose to build with what I've got and try to make the best of it because I've still been given a stage. I've still got cameras in front of my face when I want them, and I plan to run with it.
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The radio even weren't allowed to say there was a Holocaust and people were being killed right, left and center in these terrible camps.
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I define talent as the rate at which you get better at something when you try. To be very talented means you get better faster and more easily than other people or other things that you try.
