Charles Duhigg Quotes
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I haven't done Vine in a long time, and when I first started, I just did stuff that I thought was funny.
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I'm profoundly lucky. I really like it. I really like my work. I've liked it since I was 5 years old.
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Unfortunately, America doesn't have a minister of culture, and I don't understand why. It's really bad for young people.
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I'm here today because I hated everything else.
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I play-acted and started performing, which just logically led to doing it in school, which led to studying it in college, which led to auditioning to the showcase in New York. And then I had an agent, and I was an actress.
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The true character of ministry is a servants heart.
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The Canadian franchises and Canada as a market for NHL hockey has always been a priority for us.
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I never told a victim story about my imprisonment. Instead, I told a transformation story - about how prison changed my outlook, about how I saw that communication, truth, and trust are at the heart of power.
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I think my sweet spot is to make personal films on not-too-big budgets and also make other people's films, bringing productions to Iceland, upping the business here.
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In South Africa, being Chinese meant I wasn't white and I wasn't black. I trained in Baragwanath Hospital, the largest black hospital in South Africa. That was around 1976, the time of the Soweto Uprising, when police fired on children and students who were protesting. I was part of the group of interns who volunteered to treat them.
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I think black Americans expect too much from individual black Americans in terms of changing the status quo.
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I have no ties to my dad. I had no communications with him; it didn't shape who I am or anything like that. I'm actually a product of my mom.
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Being an actress can be a little like being a girl in the '50s: You're stuck waiting by the phone, hoping that the boy you like will call.
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Because women have been marginalised, they're more likely to behave like immigrants and continue to push themselves forward in order to avoid falling through the cracks, but I don't think a happy ending comes from matriarchy.
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There are few ways in which a man can be more innocently employed than in getting money.
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Part of my problem as a young writer was that I was too much a New Yorker, always second-guessing the 'market.' I became so discouraged that I decided to write something that would please me alone - that became my sole criterion. And that was when I wrote 'Forgetting Elena,' the first novel I got published.
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As you become more clear about who you really are, you'll be better able to decide what is best for you - the first time around.
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I used to say, 'There is a God-shaped hole in me.' For a long time I stressed the absence, the hole. Now I find it is the shape which has become more important.
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I guess I don't think there's any reason to feel guilty about having joy in your life, regardless of how bad things are in the world.
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Who is that girl I see, staring straight back at me? When will my reflection show who I am inside?
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Asking is the beginning of receiving. Make sure you don't go to the ocean with a teaspoon. At least take a bucket so the kids won't laugh at you.
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The frontiers are not east or west, north or south, but wherever a man fronts a fact, though that fact be his neighbor, there is an unsettled wilderness between him and Canada, between him and the setting sun, or, farther still, between him and it.
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Our spirits are corroded by living in an atmosphere of unrelenting contention - an argument culture.
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Habits are malleable throughout your entire life.
