Daniel Kahneman Quotes
It doesn't take many observations to think you've spotted a trend, and it's probably not a trend at all.
Quotes to Explore
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Ordinarily if an actor gets chosen for the lead in a film, he or she has already built up a repertoire, and everyone knows what he or she is capable of.
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I love biographies. I read Patti Smith's 'Just Kids.' I'm into that time frame in New York, the '70s and '80s. In art school, I read 'Close to the Knives,' the autobiography of the artist and AIDS activist David Wojnarowicz.
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I believe in God, but I don't know what it is - if it's a he, she, a he-she, or anything. Who knows what it is. All I know is that I feel like there's something else there.
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While 'Friends' was about a 20-something population and what they were going through, they were also dealing with issues with their family.
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Broadway has been my dream since I was 5 years old.
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The Negro revolution is controlled by foxy white liberals, by the Government itself. But the Black Revolution is controlled only by God.
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I'm just drawing it now. It's totally revolting. I'm sure you'll love it.
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What opera isn't violent? Two things happen, violence and love. And other than that, name something else. You can't.
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The alleged power to charm down insanity, or ferocity in beasts, is a power behind the eye.
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Sexuality is an expression of our spirituality. Sex makes you get real.
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In the last couple of years I've been doing this sort of thing constantly, often repeating myself, becoming an avoidable Doomsday bore. But anything of importance - like a garden, a human relationship, a child, a religious faith, even the most convinced brand of atheism has to be worked on constantly if it is to survive.
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The first kind of evil is that which is caused to man by the circumstance that he is subject to genesis and destruction, or that he possesses a body.
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From Cesario
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If our animosities are born out of fear, then confident generosity is born out of hope. One of the central lessons I have learned after a half century of working in the developing world is that the replacement of fear by hope is probably the single most powerful trampoline of progress.
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I hear the sound of gunfire at the prison gate, Are the liberators here?Do I hope or do I fear?For my father and my brother, it’s too late but I must help my mother stand up straight.Are we the last ones left alive?Are we the only human beings to survive? - Red Sector A (1984)
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I don’t see myself as a dissident artist. I see them as a dissident government!
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In response I am sending you some pictures which I painted in Paris out of homesickness for Russia. They are not very typical of me; I have selected the most modest ones for the Russian exhibition.
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The air is bright with hues of light And rich with laughter and with singing: Young hearts beat high in ecstasy, And banners wave, and bells are ringing: But silence falls with fading day, And there's an end to mirth and play. Ah, well-a-day!
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Man's skull represents the same infinity for the movement of conceptions. It is equal to the universe, for in it is contained all that sees in it. Likewise the sun and whole starry sky of comets and the sun pass in it and shine and move as in nature.. .Is not the whole universe that strange skull in which meteors, suns, comets and planets rush endlessly?
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People just don't realize how much peer pressure, the desire for peer acclamation, influences them.
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The fruits of all our labors have left us as we started. To grow without is not to grow within.
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Few men make themselves masters of the things they write or speak.
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I try to get out of an image's way in order to let it articulate what is hidden.
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It doesn't take many observations to think you've spotted a trend, and it's probably not a trend at all.
