Charles Duhigg Quotes
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The bodies we have are not made for extended use. We must cope with accumulated DNA damage, cell damage, muscle atrophy, bone loss, decreased muscle mass, and joints worn out from overuse during a lifetime of bipedal locomotion. It might have worked great for prehistoric humans, but it wreaks havoc on our knees and hips.
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I'm a voracious reader, and I like to explore all sorts of writing without prejudice and without paying any attention to labels, conventions or silly critical fads.
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Fashion is unique. It's a leveler, not a divider.
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No matter how senior you get in an organization, no matter how well you're perceived to be doing, your job is never done.
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My style is very simple, but I love Reese Witherspoon, Kate Hudson and Kate Middleton.
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If I don't have room for an item, I put it in warehouses.
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In all the time that people have known me, has anyone ever heard me talk about the importance of rushing records or finishing with the most touchdowns? So if that's never been important to me, then why would that be a motivation to keep playing?
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I am like a freight train. Working on the details, twisting them and playing with them over the years, but always staying on the same track.
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I introduced legislation in the Senate to prohibit President Obama's amnesty. The House of Representatives stood up and led. It took the legislation I introduced and it passed it. But the Senate Democrats stood as one uniform block and said, 'No, we will do nothing to stop amnesty.'
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I think they are very important because westerns have a code and a symbolism.
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If you have difficulties making a decision, choose the lesser of the two evils.
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I just want to make a name for myself and get to the next level.
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There's many things that I am. And all of those things come together at some point. If somebody wants to limit me, you know and they'll say, 'Well, this is Walter Mosley, the mystery writer.' I don't like that. Because I do many things.
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My advice for writers is to get a good day job. It takes the pressure off writing if you have a job that pays the bills.
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And going into my studio at night, particularly at night when everybody's asleep, is just a total pleasure for me.
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I have a lot to say about fashion - not just about fashion, but beauty, art.
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It is a matter of shame that in the morning the birds should be awake earlier than you.
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I can't even picture being without rock 'n'roll.
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A person who can't pay, gets another person who can't pay, to guarantee that he can pay. Like a person with two wooden legs getting another person with two wooden legs, to guarantee that he has got two natural legs. It don't make either of them able to do a walking match.
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The more people smoke herb, the more Babylon fall.
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Nine-tenths of our measures for preventing vice are really protective towards it, because they ward off the penalty.
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Beside every great success are the seeds of enormous failure. In every failure, there's the opportunity seeds of great success. They're not miles apart. So if they're that close together, and if you're really working, you're always gonna have that likelihood that something's not going to work.
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It is problems that we faced for 30 years and we had to solve them in a couple of years only and the solution really pushed us and the economy couldn't handle it. We had the greatest depression. It wasn't easy and I think we expected the results. But the other thing is we have to try to create the plan B and get us out of this crisis as soon as possible.
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Most shoppers don't buy everything they need at one store.
