Daniel Kahneman Quotes
We think, each of us, that we're much more rational than we are. And we think that we make our decisions because we have good reasons to make them. Even when it's the other way around. We believe in the reasons, because we've already made the decision.
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Let's judge a man on what he's done.
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That's what I love about our music - it'll never be a hit because you can't dance to it.
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I enjoy getting gussied up for an event or date night.
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I'm married. I've been with my husband for six years. Now that I know what a healthy relationship is, I find I can write better about the unhealthiness of relationships.
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When I was a kid, I wanted a Chanel bob and bangs. My mom said no. I went to the salon anyway, and they said, 'No way - we are not going to do that to your hair.' So I did it myself. Big mistake. Instead of my bangs going down straight, they were sticking up like a cat. It was horrible.
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Racism is always there underneath, but usually it is exploited in these times of economic crisis, and it's hard to find out when one slides into another.
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There is nothing, really, that I wouldn't write about, and I do write about a lot of grim things.
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The Chinese are really good at diplomacy - and even at making their interlocutors feel very uncomfortable.
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America preaches integration and practices segregation.
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There's been a big buzz about the Charlatans in the last couple of years. I've heard the word Charlatans more in the last few years than I'd heard it for the previous 20 years. People would interview me for years and never even mention the Charlatans.
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I've had my share of doing things that I really wish I hadn't done.
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I think, looking back, there was a lot of fear of success in me. When you are successful, you have to keep it up... it requires you to be responsible, and I had been pretty irresponsible.
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We need to focus on building up our own nation and creating jobs here at home.
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There's always been something a little pathetic for me at the work parties I've attended, especially thinking back to the restaurants I worked in. I remember a Christmas party in which we all got free T-shirts with the restaurant on the front and our names on the back.
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When I go home, I play with my baby dolls and strollers and diaper bags, and play with my sisters.
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Sir Rodin convinced my parents to have me committed; they are all in Paris to arrange it.
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Eventually, before I die, I hope to have written about every part I've played.
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I always wanted to be a doctor and go to art school, but I thought I'd regret it if I didn't act.
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Sometimes I read a really good script, and I just know that it's not a good fit.
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Many applications of the coincidence method will therefore be found in the large field of nuclear physics, and we can say without exaggeration that the method is one of the essential tools of the modern nuclear physicist.
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Many of us are being held hostage by bitterness because we are not willing to give to others what we have been given.
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We believe in cures; we're a quick-fix country, and we drive forward, and we eat up what we have extremely fast in terms of natural resources and also ideas and intellectual property. We're kind of wilfully stupid a lot of the time, anti-intellectual.
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I don't believe in fad diets.
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We think, each of us, that we're much more rational than we are. And we think that we make our decisions because we have good reasons to make them. Even when it's the other way around. We believe in the reasons, because we've already made the decision.
