Daniel Kahneman Quotes
After a crisis we tell ourselves we understand why it happened and maintain the illusion that the world is understandable. In fact, we should accept the world is incomprehensible much of the time.Daniel Kahneman
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There is an expression now that is commonly used about these so-called internal conflicts which are not really internal, because they have connections to the outside world.
Lakhdar Brahimi -
For every reason it's not possible, there are hundreds of people who have faced the same circumstances and succeeded.
Jack Canfield -
A man will turn over half a library to make one book.
Samuel Johnson -
My basic feeling about military intervention is that it should be a last resort, undertaken only to stave off large-scale bloodshed.
Samantha Power -
Well I do think, when there are more women, that the tone of the conversation changes, and also the goals of the conversation change. But it doesn't mean that the whole world would be a lot better if it were totally run by women. If you think that, you've forgotten high school.
Madeleine Albright -
Eventually somebody will want me, and there will be a role that is mine.
Rachel Brosnahan
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We have much to be judged on when he comes, slums and battlefields and insane asylums, but these are the symptoms of our illness and the result of our failures in love.
Madeleine L'Engle -
I had a passport where I wrote 'artist' under 'occupation' and I remember thinking, 'That's it, it's proved!'
Damien Hirst -
I get mad quick and and go off at the handle quick.
Ja Rule -
I was a huge fan of 'Game Of Thrones.' I hadn't read the books but had watched the series from the beginning.
Nathalie Emmanuel -
This person they make me out to be irritates the hell out of me as well.
Victoria Beckham Spice Girls -
Lots of people think the violence in the films I make is overwhelming, but they think they're seeing something that they aren't seeing.
Park Chan-wook
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Now, they hold the World Cup every year, so it's like any Super Series. It's boring. To me, it's very boring. I think the players will always attend the World Cup. But for the fans, and also for most players, the Olympics and Asian Games will become more important. Nobody will look forward to the World Cup with anticipation.
Taufik Hidayat -
I've been into every doo-wop there is. I think I went to the university of doo-wop-ology.
Aaron Neville -
I'm a big fan of Justin Timberlake and Bruno Mars – that's my next level. You've got to dream. People have always tried to shoot me down for wanting to be a big worldwide star. But why not? You have to broaden your horizons and put yourself out there.
Olly Murs -
If I go to a baseball game, I hear 'Shoeless Joe,' but otherwise, I hear 'toe pick' five times a day. No matter how many more movies I make, that'll be on my gravestone.
D. B. Sweeney -
The cost of living is going up and the chance of living is going down.
Flip Wilson -
Do I love the road? Honestly? No - but it's how I earn my living. I also don't have the blues, like it's some kind of fever. The blues is my job. It's what I do.
B. B. King
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With 'That Awkward Moment', you could argue I'm just playing the girlfriend of Zac Efron, but the director was such a creative force and let me make her my own. I loved being part of something that felt so relevant and fresh.
Imogen Poots -
I wish I hadn't. I wish I'd fought for you. I was weak and stupid.
S. J. Watson -
I am the world's laziest shopper, but very rarely have I had to take anything back.
Erin O'Connor -
Appetite, with an opinion of attaining, is called hope; the same, without such opinion, despair.
Thomas Hobbes -
After a crisis we tell ourselves we understand why it happened and maintain the illusion that the world is understandable. In fact, we should accept the world is incomprehensible much of the time.
Daniel Kahneman