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 think we need to be sexy and kind of mysterious and still pretty and beautiful. I like to hear that when a man sings. I don't really want to hear about taking my clothes off.
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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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Love is not a mere impulse, it must contain truth, which is law.
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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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We need innovation and creativity.
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Going to the Oscars is always the most sensory overload and a huge amount of fun.
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Discussing coronation ceremonies with Vidal, 'I quickly moved on to...the moment when two masons appear and ask the newly crowned king for instructions as to his tomb. 'Masons? Masons! Yes. You one? I'm one. But I've forgotten all the odds and ends. Dull, really.' (Vidal, Palimpsest, 206)
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Dreams should make you think, ‘If I had the guts to do it and I didn’t care what anybody thought, this I what I’d really do’.
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Human behavior is incredibly pliable, plastic.
