Charles Duhigg Quotes
For years, many public health campaigns that aimed at changing habits have been failures.
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You don't have to be an heiress to look like one, if you act like one then everyone will just presume you are one.
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For a long time, I thought I was going to play basketball. There's not many 6-4 white guys playing the three spot in the NBA, so I realized I probably didn't have much of a future in basketball and that football was probably going to be my best bet.
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I think that black people, to a degree, need to have a certain level of dexterity. If we want to be at the highest level of whatever our field is, we have to be able to navigate both worlds. We all just know that you gotta be able to put that suit on and have a conversation with people that don't look like you or your family.
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For any actor - not just talking about myself - but if you've been fortunate enough to work for a long period of time, there's going to be different choices you're going to make.
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The craft Emmys are kind of the kids' table at Thanksgiving. You're not really invited to the big dance. It's still really, really exciting, and the statue still counts.
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I came of age as a male lead actor just as the TV landscape dramatically shifted.
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There was a bit of a comparison that Bret was making between Vince McMahon and my dad. He looked up to Vince as a dad and stuff, and it was a shame to see the whole thing end the way it did.
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It's all about risk-taking when you're making an album. Don't be scared to do weird things sometimes.
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Customers are enormously punishing when companies don't meet their expectations.
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I really had a problem with being 'the man.' I'm past it now, but that was my insecurity. I ran from that. I was cool with being No. 3 on the call sheet or No. 2.
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Most organisms have loads of junk DNA - less pejoratively, noncoding DNA - cluttering their cells.
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I may even show up behind the camera. I love to put things together; I love to give direction. I have a great eye for pace.
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We have an idea that the man should help pay for the child. But we don't have a law that says a man has to support any woman he gets pregnant. Why is that? Because she doesn't have the baby yet. But if we're going to say it's a human being, then he should be supporting her during pregnancy.
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Turn on to politics, or politics will turn on you.
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Sound is a huge influence on peoples' attention.
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Do not meddle in the affairs of Wizards, for they are subtle and quick to anger.
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I have such respect for... the Kennedy Center Honors. To be an artist in America and to be honored for it is extraordinary. In Europe, they really honor their artists. And you are on a very high level. And here it's not as revered as it is in Europe or Russia or anywhere in the world.
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My parents were both actors; my dad sort of quite early on. My mother acted for a while, and now she's a painter.
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When I was growing up, my stepmother's sister was the chief detective in one of the adjoining towns, so she piqued my interest in crime.
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I always seem to feel that everything is about to cave in on me. I think that maybe music is my protection from that and in some senses it's an outlet to turn it into something euphoric: embracing the eventual decline.
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My hope is that we continue to nurture the places that we love, but that we also look outside our immediate worlds.
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Every week we've had four or five opportunities to get balls in our hands and we have not been able to, for whatever reason, to either get the fumble or get the interception, ... I don't know how to explain it. But it's put us in a real bind because you're not going to play on that side of the giveaway and takeaway ratio and win many football games.
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We're trying to take a leadership role in solving the nation's health-care crisis. We want everybody in this country to have health insurance.
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For years, many public health campaigns that aimed at changing habits have been failures.
