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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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 must have the stubbornness to accept our gladness in the ruthless furnace of this world. To make injustice the only measure of our attention is to praise the Devil.
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Crises are harbingers of evolution.
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I'd wear clogs, short pants and ladies' bracelets. I created this aura for myself.
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The very wealthy have little need for state-provided education or health care... They have even less reason to support health insurance for everyone or to worry about the low quality of public schools that plagues much of the country.
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Are you not compelled to work for an employer? Your need compels you just as the highwayman’s gun. You must live … You can’t work for yourself … The factories, machinery, and tools belong to the employing class, so you must hire yourself out to that class in order to work and live. Whatever you work at, whoever your employer may be, it always comes to the same: you must workfor him. You can’t help yourself. You are compelled.
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What do you do if youre in a room with Muammar Qaddafi, Saddam Hussein, and John Sununu, and you have a gun with only two bullets? Shoot Sununu twice.
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Most shoppers don't buy everything they need at one store.
