Charles Duhigg Quotes
I think there's a lot of people who right now are worried that people are going down frivolous paths, like inventing new social networks or new games, instead of inventing the cures for cancer or fundamental technologies that will change the world.
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Do you force your kids to pay attention to what's going on, or do you let them live their lives outside of it? My hope is that my child is a strong activist. That would make me most proud.
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'Lovejoy' has a special place in my heart because it was through my efforts that the series first came to the screen.
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I know what feels good to eat and what doesn't. I try to err on the side of choices I know will leave me feeling more energized and ready to go, because it's always better to feel healthy.
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Nonviolent tactics can move into action on our behalf men not naturally inclined to act for us.
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If anything, I was a prodigious eater of everything that was put in front of me. That was probably the only thing my parents wouldn't complain about.
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We make assumptions: nurses should be nice, teachers should be good. But everyone has a dark side, some darker than others.
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Immigrants use the library often. A lot of them don't have access to books and Internet at home. They seem so disconnected to the city.
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When this space walk will be completed, then the arm will be fully operational and ready for the next activity that will be pretty much the testing, the first flight testing of the space station arm.
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In England we have come to rely upon a comfortable time-lag of fifty years or a century intervening between the perception that something ought to be done and a serious attempt to do it.
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Bruckner's Eighth is a colossus.
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Give a talk to children and tell them dinosaurs didn't drag their tails, and you get arguments.
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As newly created P2P businesses disrupt the status quo and compete with established companies, they face the difficulty of fitting a square peg into a round hole when it comes to existing regulatory regimes that don't contemplate their business models.
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Themes only arise after a novel is written, and people begin to try to talk about it.
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I try to compartmentalize as much as possible, and I have the most amazing team in the world. They really set up my time in a way that is completely efficient all the time.
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There's always room to volunteer. I think that's a huge space to be involved with.
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In the early part of the '60s I was influenced by the Ventures.
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The red-carpet thing of premieres and parties is probably my least favourite part of my job.
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I could probably name thousands of albums that I want.
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You learn from it, then you have to come back to work. I've been in this predicament many times.
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My dad was a doctor and surgeon. He was the fifth generation of his family to become a doctor.
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I'm going to go down swinging... I'm sure as heck not going to go home and say I had a bad tournament.
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Prince was not scared. The first time I heard someone sing about AIDS, it was Prince: 'In France, a skinny man died of a big disease with a little name.' He was not afraid of taboos.
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I've made a point of trying not to play the same part, and of moving between theatre and film and TV. The idea is that by the time you come back, you have been away for a year and people have forgotten you. If you like having time off, which I do, that's a good career strategy.
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I think there's a lot of people who right now are worried that people are going down frivolous paths, like inventing new social networks or new games, instead of inventing the cures for cancer or fundamental technologies that will change the world.
