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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If I don't have room for an item, I put it in warehouses.
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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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We will keep pounding ISIL and taking out their leaders, and pushing them back on the ground. And united with a global coalition, we will destroy this barbaric terrorist group. They will be destroyed.
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Imitation of the art of earlier centuries, as that done by Picasso and Modigliani, is carried on not to perpetuate ancient values but to demonstrate that new aesthetic orders now prevail.
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We say to the British government: you have kept those sculptures for almost two centuries. You have cared for them as well as you could, for which we thank you. But now in the name of fairness and morality, please give them back.
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I was going to be a writer. One person believed I could do it: my mom. Having her faith in me was like carrying around the Hammer of Thor.
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Henry Miller was such a scribomaniac that even when he lived in the same house as Lawrence Durrell they often exchanged letters. For most of his life, Henry wrote literally dozens of letters a day to people he could have easily engaged in conversation - and did. The writing process, in short, was essential. As it is to all real writers, writing was life and breath to him. He put out words as a tree puts out leaves.
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We have no ethical obligation to preserve the different breeds of livestock produced through selective breeding One generation and out. We have no problems with the extinction of domestic animals. They are creations of human selective breeding.
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Most shoppers don't buy everything they need at one store.
