Philip Zimbardo Quotes
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Winning the gold medal should have been the happiest day of my entire life, and it just wasn't. It felt like the saddest day of my life. Everyone was so angry with us, that Scott and I had fallen in love, because it was so unprofessional, and we were a disgrace and had betrayed everybody.
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Obviously, marriage is not a synonym for morality. But stable marriages and families do encourage moral behavior.
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In an expanding universe, time is on the side of the outcast. Those who once inhabited the suburbs of human contempt find that without changing their address they eventually live in the metropolis.
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I started to realize I wasn't like every other boy.
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The Highlander was a documentary, and events happened in real time.
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Me calling out Roy Jones is disrespectful.
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We must not allow the horrific actions of madmen to cut us off from our humanity.
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Machines built by human beings they will function correctly if we provide them with a very specific environment. But if that environment is changed, they won't function at all.
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I'm my own person. You can't generalise about people.
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Globalization is a fact of economic life.
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My theory is, if you can do comedy and you can be in a scene with someone like Brad Garrett and hold your own, you've really got a future in this business.
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Die menschliche Vernunft hat hier, wie allerwärts in ihrem reinen Gebrauche, so lange es ihr an Kritik fehlt, vorher alle mögliche unrechte Wege versucht, ehe es ihr gelingt, den einzigen wahren zu treffen.
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Alan Alda is loved not because he's sensitive, but because he's successful and sensitive.
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Framework, (...)
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Clouds are not spheres, mountains are not cones, coastlines are not circles, and bark is not smooth, nor does lightning travel in a straight line.
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Division of labor is a justification for sloth.
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The notion is that if you want to welcome me with open arms, I'm afraid you're also going to have to welcome me with open legs.
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I don't believe in Apocalypses. I believe in Apocatastases. I think it may be the title for The Film. It's a bitch to pronounce, and no-one knows what it means, but otherwise it's a great title.
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I actually went to study with the Ramapoughs in New York. I wanted to be able to see the mountains and the forest, be around the people.
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By helping others, we make ourselves better, and by helping others heal, we heal ourselves. I think we can do that on an individual level and a worldwide level. I hope people have a chance to give that a little bit of thought.
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We will all laugh at gilded butterflies.
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I have been judged to be a pessimist but what abyss of ignorance and low egoism is not hidden in one who thinks that Man is the god of himself and that his future can only be triumphant?
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Human behavior is incredibly pliable, plastic.