Charles Duhigg Quotes
In 1980, a woman promised her dying sister to change how Americans thought about breast cancer. Thirty years later, the result - the Susan G. Komen for the Cure Foundation - is one of the nation's largest non-profits, and one of the most successful triumphs in public health marketing and changing health habits.
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So, deadpan I think just means not acknowledging for one second that you think that this is funny and clever.
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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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I realized I had been keeping people around even when deep down I knew they were bad for me. I had overridden myself.
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My real dream is that everybody will see their self-interest tied up with someone else, whether or not they see them, and see that as an opportunity for growing closer together as a culture and as a world.
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You can find dozens of books about people taking the Trans-Siberian Railroad. I knew I had to do something different to cross Siberia. To drive and to talk with people along the way, that was how I wrote my book 'Great Plains'. I drove and camped in Siberia, but did not have a real program.
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I did a lot of stunts, so the harness work isn't foreign to me either.
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It's a comforting thought to know that I've got my partner by my side walking through life and all the ups and the downs. I know we can handle it. There's nothing too big or too crazy that's going to tear us apart.
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Some women can't say the word lesbian... even when their mouth is full of one.
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I had a flip phone until I was 25, and I didn't use social media until that age, either.
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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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I'd say it's okay to be political and to be a writer. Those streams can be separate, and they can be connected; for me, they're both. Life is political, and I'm interested in my community and in a lot of issues - some of them American, some global.
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I was a Presbyterian minister at a small church in Omaha, Nebraska.
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People seem to need a likable protagonist more than ever.
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This whole idea that we address environmental issues by not doing stuff just doesn't work.
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Minor Threat was an important band, believe me that it was important it in my life, but it belongs to an era that no longer exists. I'm not nostalgic. I think music today is much more important, because something can be done about it.
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Being confident in your own skin is very sexy. I think when you have fun and are yourself that is sexy too.
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For me, the idea of curating can be expanded. Curating science, curating art, music and theater and performance and not only bring those things into art but bring art into those areas.
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There have been so many great moments in golf that you even forget some of them.
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People feel that I became an actor because I am from a film family and that my parents were actors. But actually, the only reason I wanted to become an actor was to get away from studies.
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I was helped by having a verbatim memory of what happened years ago, even if I can't remember what happened a couple of days ago.
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America has the best doctors, the best nurses, the best hospitals, the best medical technology, the best medical breakthrough medicines in the world. There is absolutely no reason we should not have in this country the best health care in the world.
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It's great working with my sister, because we are very close as a family - my brother, my sister and myself. We have a great relationship.
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We'd just go to church and sing. My dad would get me and my sister Doris, and we would sing together. I sung the harmony, and my sister Doris took the lead.
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In 1980, a woman promised her dying sister to change how Americans thought about breast cancer. Thirty years later, the result - the Susan G. Komen for the Cure Foundation - is one of the nation's largest non-profits, and one of the most successful triumphs in public health marketing and changing health habits.
