Angela Duckworth Quotes

I don't spend a lot of time thinking about my genes because I can't do anything about them.

Angela Duckworth

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TimeThinkingAnythingGenesBecause

The Net interprets censorship as damage and routes around it.

John Gilmore

CensorshipDamageNetAroundRoutes

The person that's always talkin', you don't have to worry about that person. The person that while you're in his face, he's just lookin' at you with a smile on his face, that's the guy you worry about.

Michael Clarke Duncan

SmileFaceWorryYouPersonAlways

The pandemic of AIDS is a gender-based disease.

Stephen Lewis

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I have my kids every Friday through Monday, and I don't leave them the whole time I have them.

Travis Barker

TimeMondayFridayThroughLeave

A man's mind is wont to tell him more than seven watchmen sitting in a tower.

Rudyard Kipling

ManMindSittingMoreHimTell

An educated person is one who has learned that information almost always turns out to be at best incomplete and very often false, misleading, fictitious, mendacious - just dead wrong.

Russell Baker

EducationBestInformationPerson

As President Obama reminded us, we're all on one team.

Mitch McConnell

TeamPresidentUsRemindedObama

I'd like to do policy and I'd like to do philosophy, I'd like to be able to get into the depth, into the meat of the argument - that's the kind of stuff I want to do.

Jonathan Krohn

PhilosophyArgumentWantKindMeat

Young people are constantly absorbing - through media, textbooks, and policy - the myths of American exceptionalism; for black children, this means that what they are taught in class does not match the world that they navigate daily.

Clint Smith

DailyChildrenPeopleWorldBlack

A complete investment in the Obama administration required that any real opposition had to be demonized. The investment in Barack Obama had to be protected.

Bob Ehrlich

InvestmentRealOppositionComplete

When I go into a pitch room and I'm pitching something with a writing partner, everybody tends to look at the guy, even if I'm doing a lot of the talking.

Brit Marling

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Villains are always the best roles, but that meant that for months afterwards, all I got offered were absolute cads and bounders and really nasty pieces of work, as well as a lot of people who only had one arm. Such is the limited imaginative power, you see, of a great many casting directors.

Tim Pigott-Smith

WorkPowerGreatBestPeopleYou

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