Daniel Kahneman Quotes
Economists think about what people ought to do. Psychologists watch what they actually do.
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The war changed everybody's attitude. We became international almost overnight.
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Serena and I have done some great career planning, and we're playing really at the peak of our tennis right now. I think tennis has been a sport where people play this insane schedule from 14 years old, so of course at 26, it's over. We've really paced ourselves.
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If Turkey wants to join Europe, it will have to become a European country, and that might take a long time.
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On the night of the winter solstice, when the dead get their annual reprieve, they go up to the 24-hour donut shop and wedding chapel to get hitched. Marriage is a good and proper pursuit for dead people. For a while, it relieves the dark, shuddering loneliness of the afterlife.
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She knew what all smart women knew: Laughter made you live better and longer.
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I don't want to give people the impression that I'm an almost perfect human being.
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Sometimes I play cricket, and I play badminton.
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I went from 118 pounds to 135 pounds in a few months. But, I still didn't know anything about food.
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I just make up lyrics off the top of my head. A lot of times, there's a phrase I really like, and I kind of build the song around that.
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I like being unconventional.
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I get really insecure because even though I can speak in musician's terms, I don't know as much as real musicians.
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I go back and forth between indie and studio because I feel like it, not because I feel obligated to do one or the other.
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A lot of people are crazy, cruel and negative. They got a little too much time on their hands to discuss everybody else. I have a limited amount of energy to blow in a day. I'd rather read something that I like or watch a program I enjoy or ride my damn motorcycle or throw back a couple of shots of tequila with my friends.
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True character arises from a deeper well than religion.
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I had rather have a plain, russet-coated Captain, that knows what he fights for, and loves what he knows, than that which you call a Gentle-man and is nothing else.
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I don't like people waiting on me. I feel it is an unnecessary expense.
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But the working I would always want to do.
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It's an unfortunate reality of life that toxins are constantly building up in our bodies.
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I was not a Southern California girl. I hated having my photograph taken. I felt shy and embarrassed around famous people.
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I have parents and family who will never allow me not to be grounded. If I thought for a second that I could possibly lift off the ground, I have a thousand people who will grab my ankles.
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When I was little I was always getting hit. Kids would take my hat and throw it around, and it upset me. So I got to be very revengeful.
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You look at the fact that for millions of years species on earth have been developing and we've been knocking them off at like a hundred a day.
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Books are savaged and careers destroyed by surly snots who write anonymous reviews and publishers can't be bothered to protest this institutionalized corruption.
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Economists think about what people ought to do. Psychologists watch what they actually do.
