Margaret Heffernan Quotes
For good ideas and true innovation, you need human interaction, conflict, argument, debate.
Quotes to Explore
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Remind yourself that the greatest technique for bringing peace into your life is to always choose being kind when you have a choice between being right or being kind.
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Confirming John Roberts would endanger much of the progress made by the nation in civil rights over the past half century.
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Since grief only aggravates your loss, grieve not for what is past.
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In the Indian film industry, especially those of us who are in mainstream cinema, we invariably play a typical hero's role. More often than not, we cater to the public perception. However, there is a latent desire in most actors to do a role where you can go all out and experiment.
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I see the city as an organism, shaped through time by the little humans having habits and doing millions of stuff in and out of it.
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My father had very little formal education.
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If you taste something, you're not at the maximum of your ability. What I think about in competition is temperature and texture. It has nothing to do with taste or emotion.
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If Dana White can offer a contract that's not one-sided, and it's not cumbersome to the point where we look at it and realize that we can't fight for him, then we'll fight in the UFC.
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Slang is a language that rolls up its sleeves, spits on its hands and goes to work.
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If I'm still walking, I am not dead. So I have to still walk and run towards the benefit of Lebanon.
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Most people who have encountered mercury have done so after breaking a mercury thermometer. And many of us who saw the liquid balls of mercury scatter across a floor or countertop considered the element the most beautiful on the periodic table.
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The key to fashion is, you don't want to look like you're trying. You've gotta be natural.
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I love physical kinds of comedy and getting down and dirty and doing stunts. When I was growing up, I was always getting into fights with guys and usually punching out boys my age because I was a lot bigger and tougher. So I'm naturally accustomed to putting myself into the headspace of a girl who can take care of herself.
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To expect for me to be one-way every time you see me is to expect me to be a one-dimensional man, which I've never been. I've always applauded my efforts to be diverse and multi-faceted.
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You have to train people how to be business innovators. If you don't train them, the quality of the ideas that you get in an innovation marketplace is not likely to be high.
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My mother's kitchen was built to be the focal point of our house. I got into the kitchen often as a child.
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It was very difficult to control the descent. At a height of seven kilometres, I catapulted out of my capsule and parachuted down to Earth. I was very familiar with parachutes because I was a sky diver before.
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I struggled with the pressure of having the successful record after the first record. Second album syndrome. I'm living proof; it's very real.
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I think the genetics of being Irish are that you sort of prefer when it's rainy and cloudy. It's just genetic.
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I've made plenty of violent games in my life. I play violent games. They don't affect people in the way that a lot of people think they do. They just don't. It's demonstrably true that they don't, and anybody who thinks they do is just not thinking.
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There's something about VR. I'm a super dork and love video games. I've tried some VR things - some have been good, and some aren't. I wouldn't be surprised if the next level of entertainment is VR-based, and when you go to the theater, everyone puts on a VR headset.
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I've never planned my career, really. It just comes along, and I do whatever comes next!
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A new idea is delicate. It can be killed by a sneer or a yawn; it can be stabbed to death by a quip and worried to death by a frown on the right man's brow.
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For good ideas and true innovation, you need human interaction, conflict, argument, debate.
