Charles Duhigg Quotes
Lawsuits against reverse mortgage companies, including the nation's largest, Financial Freedom Senior Funding, contend that those firms helped pressure older Americans into bad investments.
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I cry all the time. I love to laugh, too. It's important to create an environment for yourself where you feel what you need to and don't hold it in.
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I try not to picture a reader when I'm writing. It's like trying to make a great table but not picturing anybody sitting at it.
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We should be too big to take offense and too noble to give it.
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I don't think about the future. I don't think about the past. I just think of what comes into my head at the time. So that might be about the past, that might be about the future. Or, the present.
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You can't create a monster, then whine when it stomps on a few buildings.
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You don't need a machine to make pasta: a rolling pin and a fast hand can create a smooth, if thick, sheet.
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It never occurred to me that I'd be on a television show or in feature films but when those came into play my dreams changed along the way.
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Future historians trying to determine what it was like to be alive in fin de millennium America should read the last two decades of O. Henry and Best American short-story collections.
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Thoughts are mental energy; they're the currency that you have to attract what you desire. Learn to stop spending that currency on thoughts you don't want.
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There really are three types of 'religious' movies: the ones that make fun of it, the ones that vilify it and the ones that literally preach to the converted.
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Aside from 'Hatchet II' and 'Hatchet III,' I've never repeated myself. I try to keep doing things that are totally different.
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The earth is such a voluminous, sparse, wild place that has its own rhythm that human beings try to control and strategize our way around, but the truth is, if you're out someplace like the ocean on a capsized boat, it doesn't matter if you have academic degrees, or if you're a martial-arts ninja. Nature is a bigger force than you.
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People want to see something that isn't necessarily somebody walking around in a superhero costume.
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Religion is a matter of the heart. No physical inconvenience can warrant abandonment of one's own religion.
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You can have all the talent in the world, but without determination, you won't get very far.
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The best way poor people can come out of their poverty is to get on the global highway, not on some dirt side road.
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All my books reflect travel adventures of some kind, and all have a soul: a spiritual or mystical underpinning.
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I would rather my films be well-known than I be well-known.
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The tours are campaigns.
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The Election Assistance Commission represents a major, unprecedented commitment from the federal government to sustained freedom and vibrant democracy. I am humbled by the prospect of being one its charter members.
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Trade brings freedom and well-being for all.
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I follow three rules: Do the right thing, do the best you can, and always show people you care.
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And through our travels we get separated, never forget: In order to survive, got to learn to live with regrets.
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Lawsuits against reverse mortgage companies, including the nation's largest, Financial Freedom Senior Funding, contend that those firms helped pressure older Americans into bad investments.
