Philip Zimbardo Quotes
Ideas for my first experiments in human aggression came from discussions we had in a research seminar about William Golding's 'Lord of the Flies.'
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Conservatives are charitable, forgiving, and are always - always - more willing to laugh at themselves.
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Drama school introduced me to a world I had no idea about. I wasn't brought up in a literary household at all.
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Poetry is an art, the easiest to dabble in, but the hardest to reach true excellence.
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I want to do whatever I can to survive.
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I am God's vessel. But my greatest pain in life is that I will never be able to see myself perform live.
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There is no one, who possesses intelligence and uses reflection, who does not understand that it is one Being who both created all things and governs them with the same energy by which He created them.
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I grew up doing gymnastics. It requires discipline, eating right, getting sleep, lots of sacrifice. But the pros outweigh the sacrifice.
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Ultimately, our goal was to be a band and be recognized for our songs and making records. And I think that has been the case.
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All that stuff about heavy metal and hard rock, I don't subscribe to any of that. It's all just music. I mean, the heavy metal from the Seventies sounds nothing like the stuff from the Eighties, and that sounds nothing like the stuff from the Nineties. Who's to say what is and isn't a certain type of music?
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I learned at an early age that what we were doing in the choir was just as important as the preacher. It was a ministry in itself. We could stir the pot, you know?
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But Tommy Lee Jones is just smooth. He's just the real deal. I'm captivated by him because there's so little of that in Hollywood, and he just embodies it.
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The way people deal with me - they'll go overboard in trying to be politically correct and make a mess of it. Everyone's so worried about what they're saying to everyone else, that they don't talk very much.
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Maybe one of you can enlighten me, but I just don't understand why it is so hard to be kind to one another?
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If I'm staying in a hotel or I'm sleeping on my own I have the hairdryer on.
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It's as if to be interesting, you had to be depressed and messy, but that's complete nonsense.
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If you can't sleep, I'll be there in your dreams. I'll be there in your dreams if you can't sleep at all. And in your dreams, I'll touch your cheek And lay my head on your shoulder. Goodbye shadows
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Anybody want a binary telemetry frame editor written in Perl?
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At this point, I don’t need my records to be Number One or sell as many as this person or that person. That’s not fundamentally important - I don’t believe that sustains you.
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Africa is mystic; it is wild; it is a sweltering inferno; it is a photographer's paradise, a hunter's Valhalla, an escapist's Utopia. It is what you will, and it withstands all interpretations. It is the last vestige of a dead world or the cradle of a shiny new one. To a lot of people, as to myself, it is just 'home'. It is all these things but one thing - it is never dull.
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No matter how bad the individual, everybody has reasons for why they do what they do.
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Incompetence is often highly regarded in governmental circles.
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I become more seasoned, it's less interesting to try and compete in the pop market.
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We are not Argus-eyed, but Argus-eared.
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Ideas for my first experiments in human aggression came from discussions we had in a research seminar about William Golding's 'Lord of the Flies.'
