Charles Duhigg Quotes
America has always had an apocalyptic strain. Yet it also seems to believe that if, or when, The End comes, it will still come out on top.
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My father passed away when I was very young, so I was head of household for a very long time. Whether it came to cooking food or having to braid hair to get kids out of the door for school, I've been one that has - with the help of my mother - has been a father figure for a lot of young ladies.
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We keep, in science, getting a more and more sophisticated view of our essential ignorance.
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Just because I have two world records, everyone assumes that means automatically it is two guaranteed gold medals, but it isn't like that, and anything can happen in a race.
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I was born at the age of twelve on a Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer lot.
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Being evil is easy.
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Fiction basically is a form of gossip where you want to enter other people's lives, the lives of people you don't know, and you want to know what's going to happen to them.
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I am very close to my brother Ramesh Babu. When my father was away for shootings, my brother would take care of me, and I am very close to him, and yes, Dad's always special. He used to call me and enquire about my film's progress. Whenever I deliver a hit, I can see a glow on my father's face.
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I tend to wear all black. I like feeling sexy, feminine, effortless, and real.
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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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Sometimes we question things that we have done in our lives but how many times do we question what we haven't done in someone else's.
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My grandmother impressed upon me the importance of family, and my grandfather encouraged my hunger for learning.
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I was told that, when 'Betrayal' was being produced by one of the provincial companies in England, the two actors playing those roles actually went into a pub one day and played that scene as if it were really happening to them. The people around them became very uncomfortable.
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But all bubbles have a way of bursting or being deflated in the end.
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I do my best work if I think about what it is I have to offer.
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Take the time today to understand your contribution to any bad event you've just been through.
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As humans, we're going to make mistakes. It's what makes us human, and most of the time, the most effective way of learning is from a mistake.
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I took a job at a white-shoe NYC law firm, with an office, business cards, and a fat starter paycheck.
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I feel lucky to be getting older. The fact that I made it to 30 and then 40 was big enough. So I can't get too down on getting older; otherwise, it kind of undoes everything I've fought for.
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The awful thing about a conductor becoming geriatric is that you seem to become more desirable, not less.
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I think a lot of people really have religious overtones of having come from somewhere. I mean, even the whole concept of religion is kind of alien.
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I'm a Sufi Muslim, I would say. I believe in using the medium to create a good vibration because art is so important to society. Some projects I don't do because I feel that it's going to create a bad vibe. I don't do propaganda films that are anti another religion, anti-Muslim or anti-Hindu.
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I do believe that movies are subject to a million interpretations.
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Do I believe in plastic surgery? Yes, if something is wrong and you can modify it. For certain people, it's right.
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America has always had an apocalyptic strain. Yet it also seems to believe that if, or when, The End comes, it will still come out on top.
