Charles Duhigg Quotes
Someone once described Ken Lewis to me as the most competitive person in the history of the United States, including the Union Army.
Quotes to Explore
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Foreign policy is an explicitly amoral enterprise.
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Never speak to an invalid from behind, nor from the door, nor from any distance from him, nor when he is doing anything. The official politeness of servants in these things is so grateful to invalids, that many prefer, without knowing why, having none but servants about them.
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In reality, it si more fruitful to wound than to kill. While the dead man lies still, counting only one man less, the wounded man is a progressive drain upon his side.
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If you can dream it, then you can achieve it. You will get all you want in life if you help enough other people get what they want.
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When a book leaves your hands, it belongs to God. He may use it to save a few souls or to try a few others, but I think that for the writer to worry is to take over God's business.
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Being unemployed - or working at minimum wage - is rough in the best of circumstances.
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As long as a film stays unmade, the book is entirely yours, it belongs to the writer. As soon as you make it into a film, suddenly more people see it than have ever read the book.
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It's interesting now that basically a CG set is the same cost as a real set. So like if you're going to build a CG house in the suburbs, it costs you $200,000. And if you were going to build it in a computer, it'll cost you $200,000. It's the same... the relationship is exactly the same.
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In general, while Trump has been a master of Twitter, he has shown an aversion to, and ignorance of, technology itself.
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I can never let the guy across from me be in better shape. I have to be the best-conditioned guy.
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War will never cease until babies begin to come into the world with larger cerebrums and smaller adrenal glands.
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There is no person that love cannot heal; there is no soul that love cannot save.
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There are always two forces warring against each other within us.
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I think technology really increased human ability. But technology cannot produce compassion.
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Detroit is right now a new Mecca for Hip Hop.
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I just think old old movies, they make you concentrate and pay attention so much more. They feel so warm. A lot of modern digital videotape, it's just too bright. Don't know why, it's not warm.
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We, some cast members and I, even went on a weekend trip together and spent the weekend at an inn, because we enjoy each other's company so much, and it was so cool.
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Some ticket buyers think they don't like Jews.
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In coming to the Congress as a new Member and becoming a fellow Blue Dog, we have had an opportunity to share and really spend a great deal of time in examining the challenges that our Nation finds itself in in getting its fiscal house in order.
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I went to boarding school, and then I went to Oxford, and I know how easy it is for certain groups of people to become wholly insulated from ordinary life.
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Private equity firms working closely with venture capitalists and technologists may be able to unlock assets that others have not leveraged and build technology cultures to iterate on solutions that make these assets more productive.
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I wrote a draft of 'Playboy' for Warner Brothers, and it was impossible to really be independent of Hugh Hefner. In the end, Hugh Hefner was unable to take the back seat required to be able to write something about him that I felt I could do.
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As an author, I really hate a reader like me. There's no loyalty.
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Someone once described Ken Lewis to me as the most competitive person in the history of the United States, including the Union Army.
