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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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 have to admit, I was a little bit of a misfit.
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I've spent my whole life before coming to Congress as a Chamber of Commerce manager. What that means is you help start small businesses, help them grow in good times and bad.
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Evolutionary naturalism takes the inherent limitations of science and turns them into a devastating philosophical weapon: because science is our only real way of knowing anything, what science cannot know cannot be real.
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These are the moments when the powerful mind or the forceful character feels the ferment of the times, when his thoughts quicken, and when he can inject into the uncertainties of others the creative ideas which will strengthen them with purpose. At such a moment the man who can direct others, in thought or in action, can remake the world.
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I tell my micro students everything I teach them is important, but the truth is that some things are more useful than others, and opportunity cost is near the top.
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For good ideas and true innovation, you need human interaction, conflict, argument, debate.
