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Charles Duhigg Quotes

Calling out people for not voting, what experts term 'public shaming,' can prod someone to cast a ballot.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: journalist
Nationality: american
Birth: 1974

Topics

People Voting Someone Out Cast Prod

I've always thought a novelist only has one character, and that is himself or herself. In my case, me.

John Gregory Dunne

Character Me Thought Always Herself

I was always a sensitive, sweet kid, but I got brutalized and I became brutal. And frankly, I don't think it was my natural makeup. I don't think its anyone's natural makeup to be a violent brawler.

Andre Dubus III

Sweet Makeup Think Kid Always Got

Kids would never care about going to school unless your mama and daddy instilled into your head and explained to you that you need this thing to live.

Live School Care You Never Need

People's real hopes and dreams can be distorted and misdirected and packaged until you're not sure what you really want or what you even really need.

Dreams People You Want Need Real

I don't have my own garden; we're on shale and in the woods. And if I did have a garden, the deer and chipmunks and squirrels and bears would eat everything anyway.

Woods Garden My Own Deer Eat Own

I needed football - it was just something to do, an excuse to not be at home.

Home Football Something Just Excuse

Every writer I know has trouble writing.

Writing Trouble Know Writer Every

Although it's not something I'm particularly proud of, I'm willing to admit that, in addition to whiling away the long stretches of time in the air and waiting in airport lounges reading the 'New Yorker' and 'New York Times' on my Kindle, I've picked up the occasional tabloid magazine.

Time New York Waiting Proud Reading

Lipstick is the easiest way to dress up without doing a lot, but it's hard to maintain, so I always opt for nudes if I'm going out for a long time.

Christy Turlington

Time Dress Doing Long Lipstick Way

The trick to forgetting the big picture is to look at everything close-up.

Chuck Palahniuk

Picture Look Big Picture Everything

Luck and misfortune are closely intertwined.

Luck Misfortune Intertwined Closely

Good breeding differs, if at all, from high breeding only as it gracefully remembers the rights of others, rather than gracefully insists on its own rights.

Good Others Rights High Own Only

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