Daniel Kahneman Quotes
We know that the French are very different from the Americans in their satisfaction with life. They're much less satisfied. Americans are pretty high up there, while the French are quite low - the world champions in life satisfaction are actually the Danes.
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Comedy's really subjective, you know; that's why it's so hard.
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Once you make it to your point of making it, you'll appreciate the struggle.
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Actors, to a certain extent, never grow up, you see. It's an extension of being out in the back yard with a stick, only you're being paid to do it. It's borderline madness.
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What Washington needs is adult supervision.
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I have been a judge for 15 years and I've made up my own mind during all that time.
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My life has been forged by middle class values: faith, hard work, deep respect for America and all that she stands for.
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Like most ghetto kids I knew it was important to be 'somebody' so I became a good soccer player, because excelling at a sport seemed to make you special.
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I know girlfriends of mine who, when they were approaching pregnancy and starting a family, consistently went through a period right beforehand that was a last gasp kind of thing where they just wreak havoc. They fall apart, in a profound way, because there's some awareness that that's the last time they can do that for awhile.
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Black beans and soy beans are the cornerstones of longevity diets around the world.
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The Old Firm clubs are not easy clubs to manage and sometimes I think frustration comes in that, in the end, make you happy to be leaving.
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I find end-of-the-world stuff enthralling - to imagine how life will be in the future on Earth and in space!
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I do not play golf regularly, but I feel that hitting the moving ball in cricket is tougher than hitting a stationary ball as in golf, which requires more concentration and steady hands.
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There are some faults so nearly allied to excellence that we can scarce weed out the vice without eradicating the virtue.
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I'm happy with the coach we have. I think any one of the ones I asked them to consider would've been good.
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Life stands before me like an eternal spring with new and brilliant clothes.
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I love football so when I finish playing I would like to still be involved in it somehow and a manager would be my first choice.
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I'm an optimist. My own fiction, while it has its own dark warnings about pitfalls ahead, depicts the potential of science to improve society by networking human minds.
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The amygdala plays a crucial role in processing fear, and minus her two amygdalae, S.M. became unflappable. Studies of her are actually a hoot to read, since they basically consist of scientists concocting ever-more-elaborate ways of trying to scare her.
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A problem shared is a problem doubled.
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As long as the world shall last, there will be wrongs, and if no man objected and no man rebelled, those wrongs would last forever.
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So I went in front of the judge, and I had my St. Jude prayer book in my pocket and my St. Jude medal. And I'm standing there and that judge said I was found guilty, so he sentenced me to what the law prescribed: one to 14 years.
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My mom gave me enough self-worth to carry me through difficult experiences. She was very loving and accepting. She was like, 'Whelp, you're gay? OK, cool.'
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I am not a normal man.
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We know that the French are very different from the Americans in their satisfaction with life. They're much less satisfied. Americans are pretty high up there, while the French are quite low - the world champions in life satisfaction are actually the Danes.
