Daniel Kahneman Quotes
Banks are run by executives, and executives protect themselves, and that does not always mean that banks are going to behave rationally.
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Thanks to the Japanese and Geronimo, John Wayne became a millionaire.
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If you publish something in traditional media, it's one-way. With social media, we get all this info coming back from those who read our posts.
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The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew and act anew.
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I'm a jeans fanatic. It's ridiculous how many jeans I have.
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To write a love song that might be able to make it on the radio, that is something that is terrifying to me. But I can definitely write a song about that chair over there. That I can do, but to sit and write a pop song out of the clear blue sky, that is very difficult and I admire the people that can do it.
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I don't think more concentration is required for Robert De Niro to do what he does as for Jim Carrey to do what he does.
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I think of magazines as cultural entities rather than boxes of corn flakes that can be sold and shipped around.
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I will do everything in my power to ensure that our United Nations can live up to its name, and be truly united; so that we can live up to the hopes that so many people around the world place in this institution, which is unique in the annals of human history.
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As long as I am given the opportunity to keep performing and keep exploring in whatever medium, I'll be happy. As long as I get to spend time with my family, I'll be happy. As long as I can write in some form, I'll be happy. It is the essential things like that I equate with happiness.
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I'm not afraid of a big studio film; I trust my instincts. But for me, it's not really about box office. It's about looking back on your work and not having to apologize for it.
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Together let us desire, conceive, and create the new structure of the future, which will embrace architecture and sculpture and painting in one unity and which will one day rise toward Heaven from the hands of a million workers like the crystal symbol of a new faith.
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I feel like the better version of myself is on paper... I'd rather have people know me on paper.
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I have a weird thing with knives. I don't like knives very much. Like when my parents are cooking in the kitchen and using knives to chop vegetables, I can't be in the same room. For whatever reason, knives just terrify me.
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There's something great about all your worst fears coming true and being said about you. There's a tremendous liberation on some level.
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Men err from selfishness; women because they are weak.
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There are many facts showing that Putin's people enriched themselves by using power mechanisms so that's why for them losing power means losing their fortunes.
Garry Kasparov -
It might as well be said, 'Who drives fat oxen should himself be fat.'
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You can’t change what you don’t understand.
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In fact, five years ago, after Saddam ejected the UN inspectors, John McCain and I gave up on containment and introduced the Iraqi Liberation Act, which, when it became law, made a change of regime in Baghdad official US policy. You might therefore say that, when it comes to Iraq, President Bush is just enforcing the McCain-Lieberman policy.
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Those Russians. They did worse things when they entered Pomerania than we ever did in Russia.
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You can lose when you outscore somebody in a game. And you can win when you're outscored.
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When people are judged by merit, not connections, then the best and brightest can lead the country, people will work hard, and the entire economy will grow - everyone will benefit and more resources will be available for all, not just select groups.
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We might mean different things. How can you tell? Only by reading each of us carefully and seeing what each of us has to say—not by pretending that we are both saying the same thing. We’re often saying very different things.
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Banks are run by executives, and executives protect themselves, and that does not always mean that banks are going to behave rationally.
