Daniel Kahneman Quotes
One emphasis of my research has been on the question of how people spend their time. Time is the ultimate finite resource, or course, so the question of how people spend it would seem to be important.
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The world needs some help.
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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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You've just got to sing, do some kind of singing every day. Early mornings and cold weather can mess with that. I drink special teas with cayenne pepper, but I think you're psyching yourself out, really.
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As life grows more terrible, its literature grows more terrible.
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I think I would like to have lived in the 1930s and worn beautiful bias cut dresses all the time.
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Artists want to be congratulated because they should be.
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I realized after writing songs for years how important it is. Whether it provides a living for me or not, that creative outlet is something I need.
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Social Security is too vital to be lumped into backroom budget talks where the views of ordinary Americans risk going unheard.
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Being funny with a funny voice is more my comfort zone, a broader character that I try to humanize, a kind of silly or wacky persona that I try to fill in.
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The closer a Negro got to the ballot box, the more he looked like a rapist.
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It's not enough to have economic growth. You have to distribute wealth throughout all of society.
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Producing should be a creative responsibility.
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While the miser is merely a capitalist gone mad, the capitalist is a rational miser.
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As an actor, I have casting issues. I'm a minority. I don't have trouble making a living, but as far as being on the food chain of the pecking order of actors, I'm not at the top of it. With the jobs that I do, there are always control issues with directors and producers.
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I think I felt at some point that I couldn't understand poetry or that it was beyond me or it didn't speak to my experience. I think that was because I hadn't yet found the right poems to invite me in.
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Quarterback is not a position that you come in having not played it your whole life.
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I have problems with a lot of photography, particularly street photography and photojournalism - objectifying the other, finding the contempt and exoticism that you might feel within yourself or toward yourself and projecting it out to others. There can be an abusive power to photography, too.
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Criticism always seemed to me a lot like police work. You look for clues, fingerprints, motives. You need to construct an airtight case.
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I think when someone knows who they are and is comfortable and confident with that, I think a lot of the typical, aesthetic things sort of fall by the wayside.
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I want to continue to produce film, television, and theater, and to make the most amazing music that I've made in my life.
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Given the choice between accomplishing something and just lying around, I'd rather lie around. No contest.
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I watched Reagan turn around the country by lowering taxes and controlling spending, and I'm applying the same principles.
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One emphasis of my research has been on the question of how people spend their time. Time is the ultimate finite resource, or course, so the question of how people spend it would seem to be important.
