Charles Duhigg Quotes
Public employee unions are hardly the only group involved in bare-knuckles politics. Businesses lobby fiercely, and executives make hefty campaign donations.
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Live TV would terrify anybody.
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Great things are not accomplished by those who yield to trends and fads and popular opinion.
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I've been told I have an aggressive driving style.
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I'm not an anti-capitalist, or anarchist. I want capitalism to work.
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Any of the rewards or accolades or any of that are very nice and everything but the music is what saves me. And it did. I would write my way out of any kind of depressing period.
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Sure, 'Les Miserables' can be melodramatic. And seeing the musical instead of reading the novel will save you some time and spare you the long part where Hugo goes on and on about the Parisian sewer system. But I would hate for the novel to lose that.
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The man who has his millions will want everything he can lay his hands on and then raise his voice against the poor devil who wants ten cents more a day.
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I wasn't popular in the home office because I wasn't chicken. I'm just a risk taker. I have gut instincts.
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If I don't seem as depressed or morose as I should be, sorry to disappoint you.
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When faced with the inevitable fatigue that comes with the recycling of speeches and the recycling of thoughts in a rather small stream of vortex, I am urged to not be ashamed of recycling.
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I'm not educated about cinema or genres.
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I never had any expectations of winning a Grammy. It wasn't something I was set on, that I was hoping and praying and starving for.
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Then, at some point, you get identified with certain things.
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The writer's object is - or should be - to hold the reader's attention.
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Love just happens, you know.
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Some music comes from a real place; some music comes from your imagination. It's difficult to find out what's real and what's not, especially with the gangster stuff.
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'Democracy is premised, in some measure, on majority rule, and democracy is difficult in a situation of concentrated inequalities in which a large, impoverished majority confronts a small, wealthy oligarchy.'
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We properly judge a critic's virtue not by his freedom from error but by the nature of the mistakes he does make, for he makes them, if he is worth reading, because he has in mind something besides his perceptions about art in itself - he has in mind the demands that he makes upon life.
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Thanks for the timesThat you've given me.The memories are all in my mind.And now that we've comeTo the end of our rainbow,There's somethingI must say out loud.You're once, twiceThree times a lady.
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The army taught me to sign my name very quickly, and that's stood me in good stead the rest of my life.
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Democratic accountability means that governments must be popularly accepted, with citizens empowered to replace corrupt or incompetent rulers.
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I feel like, in a lot of shows where the woman is in charge, the woman is this ball buster and the guy is sort of weak and spineless. And that's never been my experience in a relationship. I think it's much more interesting that the guy is the boss. And there are stakes.
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Public employee unions are hardly the only group involved in bare-knuckles politics. Businesses lobby fiercely, and executives make hefty campaign donations.
