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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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.
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I would never date a celebrity. I would want someone with real skills. Doctor, nurse, electrician... tailor.
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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.
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I had all the fame anyone could want, and I ran away from it.
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The words of truth are always paradoxical.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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There are so many figures in our history that did not believe they could make a change, and they did.
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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.
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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.
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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?'
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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.
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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.
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I don't want to spend the next two years in Holiday Inns.
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One of the problems in the Navy is that tradition of being captain of the ship. And an awful lot of people can be retired in the Navy, get over it, get a life, and go on. But there's a lot who can't. And when they have to give up the ship, they got to be captain of something, every single day.
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I guess my main influences are Jesus, rock 'n' roll and ex-wives. In that order.
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Interestingly, the actress who, in her own persona, may be gentle, shy, and socially awkward, someone whose hand trembles when pouring a cup of tea for a visiting friend, can convincingly portray an elegant, cruel aristocrat tossing off malicious epigrams in an eighteenth-century chocolate house.
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I love sitting at my desk and facing a quiet day with a pen in my hand, and putting myself into a story. It's kind of weird, isn't it? I mean, to absent myself from real life and make up stories is strange, but I started doing this when I was ten years old. It was all I wanted to do.
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«Roads must be used by cars and airplanes must fly in airports.»
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As long as a member state is a member state, there are no negotiations bilaterally on any trade agreement with third parties.
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If I have time to exercise, I do it, but I don't fixate on numbers like weight or waist size. Numbers don't work for me.
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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.
