Margaret Heffernan Quotes
Speaking is what most people work on. They forget the thinking and the breathing and instead try to occupy space with sound.
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The rule of improvisation I took to heart was, 'Don't think.' I tend to over-think things, so that was a big lesson for me.
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In the last 5 years, American employers have lost over $150 billion of productivity to depression alone. That is more than the GDP of 28 different States during the same period.
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I don't like the blame game, though.
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I think Twitter is the future of communications and Square will be the payment network.
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Exposure to a diversity of disciplines has been exceptionally helpful to me.
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I didn't choose to write a military man as much as Vince Haven chose me.
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Young audience, in the age group of 16-33 years, constitutes the main viewership of Bollywood films.
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There is no easy way to get around horrible people on the Internet, and it's either just leave it or don't and get sucked into the whirlwind of it all.
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You don't want to take the world over with a whole hamper full of dirty clothes. That's the main thing people overlook. And take a shower, take a bath every day.
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Whatever they did for democracy, the U.S. interventions in the Middle East and the vaunted Arab Spring have proved to be pure hell for Arab Christians.
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In the 60s, if you wanted to be an actor, you couldn't do just one thing.
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I let characters be human and flawed and relatable. When we do things that aren't that great, we can understand it.
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It's really bizarre because no one knows this, but elephants have killed more animal trainers than any other animal.
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It is true that they paid much more attention to the trade unions because the trade unions were after all speaking for the rights and conditions of working men and women in their employment.
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If we don't do it, somebody else will. The Chinese, the Europeans and the Japanese all have the goal of going to the moon. Certainly we don't want to wake up and see that they have a base there before we do.
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I really am profoundly grateful just in general in my life. I've had an embarrassing amount of good fortune.
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I knew that I wanted to be an actor; how to go about it was the question. I went to Australia for my studies; from there I told my dad that I also want to do a course in performing arts, but my father refused. So I completed my studies and came back. But I kept poking him, saying that acting is something that I want to do.
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You have to love your body, respect it, and treat it well.
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As there were black swans, though civilized people had existed for three thousand years on the earth without meeting with them...The uniform experience, therefore, of the inhabitants of the known world, agreeing in a common result, without one known instance of deviation from that result, is not always sufficient to establish a general conclusion.
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I am a gun owner and a hunter and a gun rights supporter.
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I think it is difficult to achieve a meaningful political coalition if you have race-based programs that divide members of the coalition. The problem I have, however, is that white people assume an either/or position: Either we have race-based programs or we don't. What I see is comprehensive social reform that includes race-based and race-neutral programs.
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Creativity for the greater good is where I aspire to be, and I mean that on several levels: of course, working with worthy causes that need support but also not just contributing to the pollution of crap advertising.
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Speaking is what most people work on. They forget the thinking and the breathing and instead try to occupy space with sound.
