Philip Zimbardo Quotes
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We have not overthrown the divine right of kings to fall down for the divine right of experts.
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At NBC I wasn't really sure if the grandparents were going to get my sense of humor on a particular topic.
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We are so Post-Modern that we don't realize how Post-Modern we are anymore.
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My parents are divorced, and seeing that was really painful for me. Really painful for me. But that's also a big part of why I'm intrigued by the dynamics between people – because I was close to something that fell apart.
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I loved anything to do with animals from a very early age.
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For years, I have repeatedly said that Maryland taxpayers were being overtaxed and overcharged.
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The Irish Government can no longer stand by and see innocent people injured and perhaps worse.
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Luck consists largely of hanging on by your fingernails until things start to go your way.
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But a funny thing happened four years later. I was invited to play for an alumni team against the Red Wings.
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When we first met, I was trying to put a band together. I asked around at school for other guys who wanted to play in a band. Someone told me about a juvenile delinquent they knew who played bongos.
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That's the trouble with directors. Always biting the hand that lays the golden egg.
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Books and harlots have their quarrels in public.
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The sense of national catastrophe is inevitably heightened in a television age, when the whole country participates in it.
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In the mind of Bill Clinton, political considerations outweigh even life-and-death matters of great concern to his own law-enforcement officials, not to mention the nation.
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I don't think you can be successful in television without appealing to women. I don't think it's possible. I think that men like women. It doesn't really matter what they do - they love anything. But women don't necessarily like every woman, so I think that's a challenge to get the female audience to not only relate to you but also like you.
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Man is a long time coming. Man will yet win. Brother may yet line up with brother: This old anvil laughs at many broken hammers. There are men who can't be bought.
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When I write, I solemnly visit myself.
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I am not fit for this office and should never have been here.
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Just as Jesus called out Peter as being of the devil for tempting him to take an easy way out, I believe such thoughts originate from the same place of fear. We can’t imagine how we’ll get through such a painful ordeal, so we want to take the first way out we see. We don’t want to have to suffer, uncertain of when—or if—we will come out the other side.
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Some fleeting good, that mocks me with the view.
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One aspect of modern life which has gone far to stifle men is the rapid growth of tremendous corporations. Enormous spiritual sacrifices are made in the transformation of shopkeepers into employees... The disappearance of free enterprise has led to a submergence of the individual in the impersonal corporation in much the same manner as he has been submerged in the state in other lands.
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It was not hard to persuade people that the market was sound; as always in such times they asked only that the disturbing voices of doubt be muted and that there be tolerably frequent expressions of confidence.
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In 'Who was Lucifer and how did he become the Devil?' (2007)
