Angela Duckworth Quotes

You cannot will yourself to be interested in something you're not interested in. But you can actively discover and deepen your interest.

Angela Duckworth

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'Breaking Bad' - when I started watching that show, I thought it was terrific. I love the way it was shot. I love the writing. I love the arc of Bryan Cranston's character. I just thought that was just really, really a wonderful, wonderful show.

Joe Morton

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Disabled veterans are not a bargaining chip.

Jim Bridenstine

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When people asked me what I did, I'd say, 'I work in publishing', and when they then say, 'What side of it?', I say, 'Supply' - no doubt leaving them to think I drive the books around in a van and deliver them.

Jim Crace

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Gypsy was the name my brother gave a pet turtle he had. I always thought it was so peculiar.

Joel Hodgson

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Remember for stir-frying not to use a wok bigger than 16 inches. Once it has food in it, you won't be able to work very efficiently.

Andrew Zimmern

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Every child should try everything: sport, music, art, mathematics; they can do it all. Copying and competition are now seen as twin evils, but they are both useful tools.

Tony Buzan

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In the winter of 1940, 'The Atlantic Monthly' invited Peter Viereck, a twenty-three-year-old Harvard graduate who had won the college's top essay and poetry prizes, to write about 'the meaning of young liberalism for the present age.'

Tom Reiss

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Dante Alighieri is a universal poet, and great creators, they are writing for everybody always. Every single verse is very moving, and the beauty - if we don't understand, we just stay listening to the sound and it's like hearing music.

Roberto Benigni

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Mammals are sentient beings that want to live and are afraid to die. Evolution vouchsafed us all with an instinct to survive, reproduce and flourish.

Michael Shermer

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My favorite Elvis era has always been his early Sun Records stuff. It was raw, just Elvis singing what he felt. It had all the influences of black blues that came out of Memphis and these gospel quartets that he loved. You can really hear that in his music from Sun.

Drake Milligan

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Go to you bosom: Knock there, and ask your heart what it doth know.

William Shakespeare

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When someone has that combination of arrogance and ignorance - that drives me crazy.

Susan Lucci

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