Daniel Kahneman Quotes
People just hate the idea of losing. Any loss, even a small one, is just so terrible to contemplate that they compensate by buying insurance, including totally absurd policies like air travel.
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For 'Breaking Bad,' people were with Walter White for 99% of that show, even though that guy is a monster.
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We're more interested in someone writing a really great answer that's going to be read by thousands or tens of thousands of people over the next few years as it stays on Quora and as it gets distributed on the Internet.
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My fear is that people associate Rand Paul's social conservatism with libertarianism, when it's not.
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I'm so tired of this vision of fashion of a diva with a big ego, and you think of big dark glasses to be pretentious and keep far away from the people.
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Putting on my legs is like putting on my shoes. I understand that's how some people might think differently, but I hope that in London, their perceptions open up.
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Helping people boost themselves out of poverty is the best way to make a lasting positive difference in a person's life.
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Just for you to know, people, models, are very smart. We're investing money in the right way, and, you know, a modeling job I'm taking as a businesswoman. So it's not fun for me; it's work.
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I'm attracted to playing people who aren't necessarily straightforward.
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The American people would not want to know of any misquotes that Dan Quayle may or may not make.
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The atom bomb is a paper tiger which the United States reactionaries use to scare people. It looks terrible, but in fact it isn't.
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I'm just very pleased and thankful that there was a receptive audience of people that I was able to connect with.
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Cheney was among the best secretaries of defence the country has ever had. He was a very effective White House chief of staff. He did not make many enemies, and he had the ability to persuade people with that soft tone and very reasonable style of his. He's always been exceptionally good as the right-hand man.
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Some people are born strong or stretchy, or with a tungsten will.
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Look, I'm a cancer survivor, all right? So I have great personal empathy for people who have pre-existing conditions and can't get insurance.
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You know your children are growing up when they stop asking you where they came from and refuse to tell you where they're going.
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Irrelevance is the feeling that an employee gets when they don't see how their job really makes a difference in someone else's life in some large or small way.
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I wrote a great deal about the Civil Rights Movement when I was writing for 'The Nation' in the '60s, and also for Esquire magazine. Reading the biography of Coffin, it just reminded me that in those days, when you saw the term 'Christian,' it usually meant people for civil rights and for justice.
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I came up in hip-hop, where people value the ability to tell it straight.
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If I can inspire someone to go in a positive way and pursue a dream, it can only be good.
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My iPod will shuffle from rap to pop to rock to classical ... It gets confusing!
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I want to be an old lady, with my cane, shouting, 'Action!' and 'Cut!'
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If you're like me and nosy, you're always eavesdropping on other people's conversations.
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I will tell you that there have been no failures in my life. I don't want to sound like some metaphysical queen,but there have been no failures. There have been some tremendous lessons.
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People just hate the idea of losing. Any loss, even a small one, is just so terrible to contemplate that they compensate by buying insurance, including totally absurd policies like air travel.
