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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In the developed world, we live 30 years longer, on average, than our ancestors born a century ago, but the price we pay for those added years is the rise of chronic diseases.
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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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If not now, then when? If not you, then who? If we are able to answer these fundamental questions, then perhaps we can wipe away the blot of human slavery.
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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 don't give myself titles. I don't think of that.
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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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I get bored of music really easily, so I always try and make music that makes sense, but then it's just a little bit wrong.
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Men err from selfishness; women because they are weak.
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I was never an ingenue. I've always just been a character actor. When I was younger, it was a real problem, because I was never pretty enough. It was hard, not just for the lack of work, but because you have to face up to how people are looking at you.
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I try to take normal things - whether it's a serious subject or something as obscure as a piece of toast - and put a very weird twist on them.
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My Roomba's name is Roswell. There is the moment when you are sitting on the couch and Roomba turns itself on and goes out and starts working. You really appreciate it because it works hard for you, and it deserves some kind of recognition.
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My dad's a scientist, and my mom's a teacher, so I didn't grow up in a family that was into the entertainment world at all.
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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.
