Charles Duhigg Quotes

For decades, activist shareholders were an entertaining, but largely ignored, Wall Street sideshow. Disgruntled investors would attend annual meetings to harangue executives, criticize strategies - and protest that their complaints were being ignored.

Charles Duhigg

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Japan has consistently remained a friend of Indonesia since the end of World War II and has regarded cooperation with Indonesia as a top priority.

Shinzo Abe

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I am cheerful. I don't know if I'm happy. There is a difference, you know.

Tom Robbins

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I've always written a little bit. I mean, I've written screenplays, and I've doctored my dialogue for years, and I've written speeches - I was a speechwriter on 'The West Wing,' so I like that kind of thing. But I never really thought I'd write a book.

Rob Lowe

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As a songwriter, metaphor is instinctual.

Rodney Crowell

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I could have had a session of defecography, which is a diagnostic test in which X-rays are taken to assess anatomical problems occurring during the process of defecation. I gave it the briefest of thoughts before recognizing that this is beyond the pale - even for me.

Mary Roach

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When you're starting a company, almost anything that can go wrong will go wrong, and it will probably look like and feel like you made the absolute wrong decision to start the company. If you're not absolutely determined to solve a problem or see something through, it might not make sense to keep going.

Logan Green

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Whatever people want to say, we go out there every night, and we give tribute to the songs that my brother wrote, to Ronnie and Allen Collins and Steve Gaines and Leon Wilkeson and everybody. We pay tribute every night to those people who have gone on.

Johnny Van Zant

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My poems are almost all written as Diane. I don't have any problems with that, and if other women choose to identify with this, I think that's terrific.

Diane Wakoski

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Long lives aren't natural. We forget that senior citizens are as much an invention as toasters or penicillin.

Douglas Coupland

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I've heard all my life how I'm too short or not big enough to play this game. It's nothing new.

Doug Baldwin

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On our studio album 'Fly From Here' in 2011, we spent a year and a half promoting that around the world.

Chris Squire

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For me, it's about being at home and living a life. Taking the dog for a walk, doing the shopping, emptying the dishwasher, going for a run.

Cillian Murphy

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