Daniel Kahneman Quotes
We don't see very far in the future, we are very focused on one idea at a time, one problem at a time, and all these are incompatible with rationality as economic theory assumes it.
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We are asleep with compasses in our hands.
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I definitely try to eat a healthy diet, but I am the first person to say I love unhealthy food. I would never tell you I don't. I love fried chicken or mac and cheese. Do I order them all the time when I'm out at restaurants? No, though I do have one splurge meal a week.
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I had rather be called a journalist than an artist.
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I came to acting in a very circuitous way.
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It couldn't have happened anywhere but in little old New York.
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Fiction seeks to represent human experience as it is lived and as it reverberates in our hopes, fears, dreams, and memories. So much of our lives are internal. The art of fiction has claimed - more than anything else - this internal ground as its own.
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All through my life, I was hated on. When I was in middle school, they used to write in my rhyme book, 'You suck' or 'This sucks.'
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The promotion of family continuity and stability is a legitimate state interest.
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I'm a choir girl gone horribly, desperately wrong.
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I've always had a passion for music, but I never saw me as a musician for a living. I never thought that I could make a living. It never dawned on me.
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Some people think that if their opponent plays a beautiful game, it's okay to lose. I don't. You have to be merciless.
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The lions taught me photography. They taught me patience and the sense of beauty, a beauty that penetrates you.
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The real story is that I had unprotected sex. That's that. That's easy.
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I have the attention span of a mosquito from multitasking and all the things that have affected my poor little brain.
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No Afghans, as far as we know, have been involved in terrorist acts against our country. We shouldn't be swatting at hornets' nests we know nothing about.
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Take seriously the traditions, the Christian roots, and all the values that are the basis of the civilisation of Europe.
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You don't want to get stuck with a record that you've done with someone that you feel obligated to put out - that's not really dope, just because you made an effort to get together and work.
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America needs to understand Islam, because this is the one religion that erases from its society the race problem. Throughout my travels in the Muslim world, I have met, talked to, even eaten with people who in America would have been considered 'white,' but the 'white' attitude had been removed from their minds by the religion of Islam.
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The stage is where I feel most comfortable, and I miss it all the time.
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At that time, I feel sad, and I feel no one knows how hard I work and how many tears. They only know the score. At that time, I feel very lonely because no one understands since they haven't been world No. 1 before.
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Tolerance comes of age. I see no fault committed that I myself could not have committed at some time or other.
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The patron saint of outlining - the bespectacled siren who sings to me from his spotless rock - is P. G. Wodehouse.
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And that's how we build the economy of the future. An economy with more jobs and less debt, we root it in fairness. We grow it with opportunity. And we build it together.
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We don't see very far in the future, we are very focused on one idea at a time, one problem at a time, and all these are incompatible with rationality as economic theory assumes it.
