Charles Duhigg Quotes
In 1688, Edward Lloyd opened a coffeehouse on London's seafront popular among underwriters, men in powdered wigs with mathematical minds and steely constitutions who offered to compensate owners if their boats were lost at sea.
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There is no sense in making a film that no-one will go and see, just to create a perfect, but useless, work of art.
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Individual science fiction stories may seem as trivial as ever to the blinder critics and philosophers of today - but the core of science fiction, its essence has become crucial to our salvation if we are to be saved at all.
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So I think that our foreign policy, the president's strong and principled leadership when it comes to the war against terror and foreign policy is going to be an asset.
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I'm more of an artist and a songwriter than I am a DJ. That word seems a little bit - well, it doesn't really describe what I do.
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Life is so fast these days, and we're exposed to so much information. Television makes us a witness to such misery.
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Liberty is the possibility of doubting, the possibility of making a mistake, the possibility of searching and experimenting, the possibility of saying No to any authority - literary, artistic, philosophic, religious, social and even political.
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During my childhood, I was surrounded by actors, and all I remember is they were fun to be around. That kind of sticks.
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Michael Jordan and Magic and myself all learned how to play the game in college programs that emphasized the team.
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The main reason I backed DeepMind was strategic: I see my role as bridging the AI research and AI safety communities.
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Twenty percent of students in Israel's schools are haredim; another 20% are retired; another 20% are Arab. I have no problem with any of them.
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I play on the left hand side, and I try to do the best I can.
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Michael Jackson wanted to be in Men in Black II. He told me he had seen the first Men in Black in Paris and had stayed behind and sat there and wept. I had to explain to him that it was a comedy.
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Our deals and performance speak for themselves. And whoever doesn't feel comfortable investing with us will not.
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I think it's the responsibility of a major opera house not only to cultivate debate and get people thinking, but also to be interfaced with things that challenge them. To challenge its audience and not just deliver things that they know, even though some of those things are wonderful.
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Truth never pleads or compromises or wavers. It invites and awaits your acceptance.
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I love doing every role I do!
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Man is the unnatural animal, the rebel child of nature, and more and more does he turn himself against the harsh and fitful hand that reared him.
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You know, God has a plan for me, and I'm going to follow in his footsteps and just rejoice and be happy.
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It's a little unsettling, to put a mud caulk on and then have nothing, but it doesn't look like it took away any of his foot.
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Nobody ever lies about being lonely.
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The hypothesis that economic organization is the resultant of a series of historic accidents is intructive in that many organizational innovations appear to be the result of trial and error.
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As much as possible, I try to encourage people to use stunt men because that is really their job.
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On a given day, you can have market fluctuations where prices fluctuate far more than the underlying economic value of the unit.
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In 1688, Edward Lloyd opened a coffeehouse on London's seafront popular among underwriters, men in powdered wigs with mathematical minds and steely constitutions who offered to compensate owners if their boats were lost at sea.
