Martin Seligman Quotes

The dirty little secret of both clinical psychology and biological psychiatry is that they have completely given up on the notion of cure.

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• My dad always said, 'Don't worry what people think, because you can't change it.'

  

  Daisy Donovan
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• It's really important to me that the public have confidence in their criminal justice system. We don't operate very well if the public doesn't trust us.

  

  Sally Yates
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• I would never date a celebrity. I would want someone with real skills. Doctor, nurse, electrician... tailor.

  

  Hannah Gadsby
  • Real
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• I really miss things like going to football games and pep rallies, and when I come home to Tulsa, I always try to go to those things.

  

  Samantha Isler
  • Home
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• I had all the fame anyone could want, and I ran away from it.

  

  Macaulay Culkin
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• The words of truth are always paradoxical.

  

  Lao Tzu
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• In 15 years we'll have all the sequence, a list of the genes everyone has in common and those that differ among people. We know only something like a tenth of 1 percent of the sequence at the moment.

  

  Walter Gilbert
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• I've always enjoyed making people laugh. But in order for me to be funny, I have to get ticked off about something.

  

  Carl Hiaasen
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• The men and women of my generation are heirs to that great collective success which has been admired worldwide and of which we are so proud. It is now up to us to pass it on to the coming generations.

  

  Felipe VI of Spain
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• They wanted to audition people for the Middle East correspondent on 'The Daily Show.' They wanted to hire somebody ethnic for that slot. Helms had left, Cordry had left, and they felt that they needed an ethnic face. So, I went in and auditioned, and I got the job.

  

  Aasif Mandvi
  • People
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• There are so many figures in our history that did not believe they could make a change, and they did.

  

  Malala Yousafzai
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• Your man Daddy Yankee, some black and white people who know what's going on in the 'hood and the clubs are supporting him and loving him. But he's speaking Spanish, and he's speaking directly to the Latino people, and the people who know the language really dig it.

  

  Fat Joe
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• Issues are never simple. One thing I'm proud of is that very rarely will you hear me simplify the issues.

  

  Barack Obama
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• Who cares about the clouds when we're together? Just sing a song and bring the sunny weather.

  

  Dale Evans
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• 'Firewall' seems both scary and protective at the same time. And how often does that happen within one word besides 'military' and 'government?'

  

  Adam McKay
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• Concepts of justice must have hands and feet to carry out justice in every case in the shortest possible time and the lowest possible cost. This is the challenge to every lawyer and judge in America.

  

  Warren E. Burger
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• I miss driving to Goodison Park. I miss just the positive energy of the fans walking into the stadium and how much they care about that club and the team. And I miss the players a lot.

  

  Landon Donovan
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• I don't want to spend the next two years in Holiday Inns.

  

  Walter F. Mondale
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• I did a couple of movies when I was little. You have to be possessed to be an actress, and I was not possessed... It was not my life's passion.

  

  Nell Newman
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• I grew up thinking that whatever I wanted to do, I could do.

  

  Victoria Principal
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• Growing up in Seattle, I was always that kid who didn't subscribe to what everyone else was wearing.

  

  Chris Benz
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• They draw back into themselves, and are thrown back on their own bodies for gratification. The men become narcissistic and uncertain of the power of any woman, no matter how strange and beautiful, to arouse their desire, but the women remain continually receptive to male advances.

  

  Margaret Mead
  • Men
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• Muhammad Ali - he was a magnificent fighter and he was an icon... Every head must bow, every knee must bend, every tongue must confess, thou art the greatest, the greatest of all time, Muhammad, Muhammad Ali.

  

  Don King
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• The dirty little secret of both clinical psychology and biological psychiatry is that they have completely given up on the notion of cure.

  

  Martin Seligman
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