Jeffrey Kluger Quotes

Indeed, the best way to think of willpower is not as some shapeless behavioral trait but as a sort of psychic muscle, one that can atrophy or grow stronger depending on how it's used.

Jeffrey Kluger

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BestThinkGrowStrongerWayMuscle

I wasn't brought up with any religion at all. At school and in my early 20s, I read every religious text I could get my hands on - Buddhist scriptures, Hindu texts, the Qur'an, and the Bible. I wanted to feel like something made sense to me, that there was something sacred I could feel aligned with.

Jennifer Connelly

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Unlike what most people think, entrepreneurs are not special people who know how to do special things that others don't. Entrepreneurs can be made, because we're all born with the potential - that special human quality - to create.

Michael Gerber

QualityPeopleThinkPotentialBorn

'Logan Lucky' is an experiment. The problem that I think needs to be addressed is, what has happened to movies for grown-ups made by people who are still interested in the idea of cinema?

Steven Soderbergh

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I could stand in the street and sing and get enough to pay the bills. I don't need millions of dollars.

Sinead O'Connor

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I am no longer married, so ladies... there you go.

Tre Cool

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I've done movies that have mostly feminine characters and elements, and I think that both 'Heathers' and 'Truth About Cats and Dogs' are, in their own weird ways - they're different ends of the girl movie spectrum, but they're very much centered around the female characters, and I like those movies, and I like working with good actresses.

Michael Lehmann

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I don't have children, but I imagine if parents are really pushed on the subject, they probably have favorite children.

Moby

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When I was a kid, I got sent off for head-butting a referee: I ran 50m to argue a decision, I was shown a red card, and I head-butted him. I'm really not proud of that.

Luis Suarez

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In my career, all my most important breaks have come from Edinburgh. Winning awards, being reviewed, bagging my BBCR4 series and the chance to tour has all come from Edinburgh, which begs the question, why the hell have I left it so long to come back?

Dominic Holland

WinningChanceHellLongCareerWhy

When I was a little girl - well, like, a teenager - I wanted to be Sam Jackson. I always wanted to be men.

Christina Ricci

GirlMenAlwaysLittleWellLike

I think governments are the cancer of civilization.

Chuck D

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The borderlanders are people who are kind of caught in the middle. They think there must be another world out there. There probably is a God, but they are either turned off by the church or wounded by the church or wary of the church for whatever reason.

Philip Yancey

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