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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I love the rush of being creative. I really think I live for it.
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I'm a father to four kids, so it bothers me that even though our children think big naturally, our society systematically trains them out of thinking that way.
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The radio's pretty much always on, and I also listen to some American podcasts, such as for 'National Public Radio' and 'Newsweek'.
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Most songs come from things that have happened, experience from everyday life – but sometimes it's just fantasy or something I’ve made up. As if I see a movie playing in my head.
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The sealing industry is dying.
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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.
