Charles Duhigg Quotes
For decades, activist shareholders were an entertaining, but largely ignored, Wall Street sideshow. Disgruntled investors would attend annual meetings to harangue executives, criticize strategies - and protest that their complaints were being ignored.
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Broadway is really my life.
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And then my chance really happened in 1996 when we added the second flight of the tether satellite.
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The last episode of Dallas was in '1991.' Unfortunately, it was a terrible episode to end the show on: it was a sort of 'It's a Wonderful Life' with Larry as the Jimmy Stewart character. In that episode, I was an ineffectual-schlep kind of brother, who got divorced three or four times and was a Las Vegas reject.
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There is no diplomacy like candor.
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If you can play live and support yourself, it's one of the few ways you're going to actually get paid in this business these days.
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The older I get the more of my mother I see in myself.
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It was never about winning medals or being famous.
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Salvation for a race, nation or class must come from within.
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You know, one of the things I like about this world, or at least I like about the way we're presenting this world, is these issues are terribly complicated - not nearly as black and white as we're led to believe.
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All art is exorcism. I paint dreams and visions too; the dreams and visions of my time. Painting is the effort to produce order; order in yourself. There is much chaos in me, much chaos in our time.
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Pakistan is alarmed by the rising Indian influence in Afghanistan, and fears that an Afghanistan cleansed of the Taliban would be an Indian client state, thus sandwiching Pakistan between two hostile countries. The paranoia of Pakistan about India's supposed dark machinations should never be underestimated.
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Mumbai may not be my city. But it is my kind of city.
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I guess actors are very sensitive people. We're porous.
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If you want to be a voice for peace in the world, begin by making peace a permanent condition of your own life.
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There is no buzz like performing for a live audience.
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I am convinced that military action will not prevent further acts of international terrorism against the United States.
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I think the skin is the most important thing. If you take care of your skin, you don't really need much makeup.
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Envy is the art of counting the other fellow's blessings instead of your own.
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Wind is God's way of balancing heat. Wind is the way you shift heat from areas where it's hotter to areas where it's cooler. That's what wind is.
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I think the business community is smart enough to realise that just having a trade union is not enough. They are smart enough to know they need to be part of a union that has political and financial power.
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In market research I did at Microsoft Corp. in the early 1990s, I estimated that the 'Wall Street Journal' took in about 75 cents per copy from subscribers, $1.25 at the newsstand and a whopping $5 per copy from ads. The ad revenue let them run a far bigger newsroom than subscribers were paying for.
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Wall Street sees a social fabric or social contract as inefficiencies, which need to be removed.
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For decades, activist shareholders were an entertaining, but largely ignored, Wall Street sideshow. Disgruntled investors would attend annual meetings to harangue executives, criticize strategies - and protest that their complaints were being ignored.
