Charles Duhigg Quotes
It is almost always a bad idea to use a reverse mortgage to pay for a vacation or to buy a risky investment, like stocks or deferred annuities.
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It's hard to always be on top. You go down, you go up.
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While criticism of Israel is legitimate and justifiable, it cannot be an excuse - in any way, shape or form - for anti-Semitism.
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Often, little situations trigger enormous reactions. Be there, present for it. Your partner will find it easier to see it in you, and you will find it easier to see it in them.
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I was so keen to become a comedian that actually doing the comedy itself almost came second.
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We think of the 1950s as an oppressive time in the culture, and indeed it was, but it was also in many ways a more secular moment, and one in which great scientific achievements flourished. I don't want to get too gauzy about this, but there was much more respect for science as a necessary part of society.
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I have every single Ferrari that came out. I have all the Mercedes they came out with, all the Jaguars they came out with, all the Porsches they came out with.
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When I was a child, I did always feel that people were hiding things, and that they weren't expressing their true feelings. When adults are too complicated, and cover their emotions with layers of well-intentioned subterfuge, the child isn't seeing reality clearly enough and gets upset.
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I like to make my name of songs strange.
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I've always been busy, but I wasn't always successful.
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There is a saying in Baltimore that crabs may be prepared in fifty ways and that all of them are good.
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I think a lot of people are drawn to seeing people that want to be better. We see it in ourselves.
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I had the impression from reading English literature that British women were great beauties, and I only had seen Julie Christie, and she was gorgeous and sexy. I don't know whether it was just my taste, but when I got to London, I went two years without seeing a truly attractive woman. A lot of near misses.
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What we call a poem is mostly what is not there on the page. The strength of any poem is the poems that it has managed to exclude.
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Theater owners are exerting a lot of power over the studios to withhold access to content that people want to see. That's bad for consumers, that's bad for studios, and ultimately, I think it will be bad for theaters.
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I am honoured and excited to be taking on the role of chairman of the British Fashion Council.
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But everything of value about me is in my books.
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I like making films about old people because they are repositories of amazing stories that they tell well. And they're incredibly good telly.
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A lot of people get stereotyped into roles just from how they look, and I have played such a variety of characters.
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I feel like if you've done something wrong, then you should keep on apologizing to that person.
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If your mind is not willing, everything will go. There's so much great power of our mind that we take for granted, and how we think and what positiveness can do.
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Role-playing isn't storytelling. If the dungeon master is directing it, it's not a game.
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Baseball players have such a bad rap of, like, 'We don't work out or we're not strong or this or that.' Guys work so hard in baseball, it's incredible. But people don't know that.
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Well, by the standards of a lot of countries, by Latin American standards, it wasn't so bad.
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It is almost always a bad idea to use a reverse mortgage to pay for a vacation or to buy a risky investment, like stocks or deferred annuities.
