Daniel Kahneman Quotes
When you look at the books about well-being, you see one word - it's happiness. People do not distinguish.
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I was perhaps about 10 years old when a local farmer rang us up to say he had found a young badger and would we take it in. So we did; it was a female called Bessy and she lived in the boiler room. She was extremely intelligent, had a very low opinion of cats but loved the dogs. She was pretty well trained; she went in the car.
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Everyone romanticizes somebody.
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For many years, the government of Canada has massively supported orchestras and the arts in general.
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When you're told to go brief a United States senator on a covert operation, you go do it. And you trust the information isn't going to leak.
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My mum was a child minder, but now she fosters. My dad was in the police force, and now he's a private detective.
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I've personally never had the chance to go to Lambeau Field.
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I feel there's enough seriousness in the world without seeing it in the theatre.
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As more ad spending shifts online, the ability to have expertise and to innovate quickly will become critical.
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Intelligence is sexy. Don't play dumb, especially young girls. Don't play dumb. And let people see that you are intelligent.
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Those most moved to tears by every word of a preacher are generally weak and a rascal when the feelings evaporate.
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When I first met my wife, I really just settled down quite a bit and I started living a much cleaner lifestyle. I was able to concentrate on things that I neglected in the past a little more and I was spending a lot more time at home than I normally would.
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I'm much more optimistic about this next generation because this is the first global generation.
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There's a lot of garbage, and then there are those ones that just stand out so incredibly. You fight for those roles; you do everything in your power to get it.
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Everyone is just nicer to prettier people.
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My favorite prayer is Footprints in the Sand. You know that prayer? I know the times that he carried me, you know? I kind of wore him out.
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I think I surprise some people because a lot of the time, I roll out of bed and go to school, and it's like I don't wear anything that interesting sometimes.
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The power should be in individual democracies in individual communities. It shouldn't be an oligarchy or some small group of elite. Power should be with the people and not with some politician or some heir to the throne or some madman.
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New needs need new techniques. And the modern artists have found new ways and new means of making their statements... the modern painter cannot express this age, the airplane, the atom bomb, the radio, in the old forms of the Renaissance or of any other past culture.
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Where there is flagrant abuse of corporate entities we must and will seek to tackle it.
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I think people have to look at it from a certain view. I say things because, at the end of the day, I can say whatever I want.
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People are aware of what I stand for through television. Nobody gets rich on TV but you build brand. That's what I'm attempting to do.
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I'm so tired of all the girls who ring me in the night and ask to speak to Anders Herrlin!
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When you look at the books about well-being, you see one word - it's happiness. People do not distinguish.
