Philip Zimbardo Quotes
Most of the evil of the world comes about not out of evil motives, but somebody saying 'get with the program, be a team player;' this is what we saw at Enron, this is what we saw in the Nixon administration with their scandal.
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I don't mind you thinking I'm stupid, but don't talk to me like I'm stupid.
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I just can't get used to the idea of being somebody unreal in people's minds. I can't live my life like that. And it's just anathema to being a writer. It's not healthy.
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On issue after issue, the Obama Administration has openly ignored, defied, and unilaterally tried to change the law.
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I didn't write the book to sell the book, but to tell my experiences.
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We have to embrace the good over the bad. That has to be one's personal project.
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Anger is the enemy of non-violence and pride is a monster that swallows it up.
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Iraq did not spontaneously opt for disarmament. They did it as part of a ceasefire, so they were forced to do it, otherwise the war might have gone on. So the motivation has been very different.
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Well, after the divorce, I went home and turned all the lights on!
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I'm so motivated to collaborate with people and help them realize the kind of collective vision.
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I'm not a rock singer and I don't want to be a rock singer. I'm not interested. It doesn't seem to get across.
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I think I'm a good judge of character.
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When you make a movie, it's up to so many things and so many people.
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In Europe, a writer is supposed to improve up until he's about 75.
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I never felt like I had a mother.
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My style of playing is more enthusiasm and instinct than skill.
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There's been a number of erroneous biographies, articles and so on written about Billy and we both thought it would be a good idea to produce a true one.
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Stopping to think is fine for characters, but not for their creators. They have to work.
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If we all band together against extremism and spend a few minutes a day using tools that have been proven to work, we can make a big difference in defending those values we share as Americans.
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The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.
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I'm a complete globalist. I think like a global CEO. But I'm an American. I run an American company. But in order for GE to be successful in the coming years, I've gotta sell my products in every corner of the world.
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If my shirt's off all the time on national TV, with 20 million people watching, I want to look my best.
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I'm susceptible to that sort of thing - to walls and flowers. You can probably get something more from a wall than a person sometimes. It's just put somewhere.
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The appearance in nineteenth-century psychiatry, jurisprudence, and literature of a whole series of discourses on the species and subspecies of homosexuality, inversion, pederasty, and "psychic hermaphroditism" made possible a strong advance of social controls into this area of "perversity"; but it also made possible the formation of a "reverse" discourse: homosexuality began to speak in its own behalf, to demand that its legitimacy or "naturality" be acknowledged, often in the same vocabulary, using the same categories by which it was medically disqualified.
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Most of the evil of the world comes about not out of evil motives, but somebody saying 'get with the program, be a team player;' this is what we saw at Enron, this is what we saw in the Nixon administration with their scandal.
