Charles Duhigg Quotes
Atrazine - a herbicide often used on corn fields, golf courses and even lawns - has become one of the most common contaminants in American drinking water.
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The well bred contradict other people. The wise contradict themselves.
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But there's no reason why we should abdicate our foundational principles because certain groups don't believe in them. You know, no majority should surrender its deeply held beliefs to those who don't believe in anything.
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God surrounded me with people of faith, people of strong faith, people of power, spiritual power, and I saw little miracles happen in their lives. By it happening in their lives, I started believing it could happen to me.
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I don't really look forward to movie stardom or doing a $200-million movie or winning an Academy Award.
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When we begin to desire a thing, to yearn for it with all our hearts, we begin to establish relationship with it in proportion to the strength and persistency of our longing and intelligent effort to realize it.
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The young always have the same problem - how to rebel and conform at the same time. They have now solved this by defying their parents and copying one another.
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It's important for any artist - particularly female artists - to feel completely comfortable and to know what they're trying to do.
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To make the child in your own image is a capital crime, for your image is not worth repeating. The child knows this and you know it. Consequently you hate each other.
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When I look at myself, I'd like not to have hair on the top of the ceiling.
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The so-called skills gap is really a gap in education, and that affects all of us.
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We need to understand what innovation will be built on top of our networks.
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Whether we like it or not, men and women are not the same in nature, temperament, emotions and emotional responses.
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It doesn't matter to me if I'm in love with my performance, so I watch all of my performances to understand and learn from them and figure out what's working and what's not. And I see the movies that I'm in in the theater a lot.
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If there was a way to discourage trash constitutionally, I would sure as heck take a hard look at it. I don't think there is. So I don't think there's a choice here.
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September 11 stands on its own as a terrible tragedy.
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We are quite at ease in this no man's land of ignorance and doubt and dispute, absorbed in the ambiguities of trying to reach truth by mixing fact with invention.
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Power is something of which I am convinced there is no innocence this side of the womb.
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People, me included, have a truly emotional thing about this iPad.
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A comedian is not a man who opens a funny door. He opens a door funny.
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I wholeheartedly believe that super heroes can play in virtually any storytelling genre.
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A woman is like a teabag. You can't tell how strong she is until you put her in hot water.
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My selective memory of what drinking was like told me that standing at the bar in a pub, on a summer's evening with a long, tall glass of lager and lime was heaven, and I chose not to remember the nights on which I had sat with a bottle of vodka, a gram of coke and a shotgun, contemplating suicide.
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Atrazine - a herbicide often used on corn fields, golf courses and even lawns - has become one of the most common contaminants in American drinking water.
