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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To suggest that a Muslim cannot think for himself sounds to me very much like an incident of anti-Muslim bigotry.
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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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Love of, and respect for, the humble routine of everyday life and its creatures was the only moral commandment which carried conviction when I was a child.
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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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I don't think you learn how to act. You learn how to use your emotions and feelings.
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For students today, only 10 percent of children from working-class families graduate from college by the age of 24 as compared to 58 percent of upper-middle-class and wealthy families.
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Also for me it was different because I play a lot of villains and in this one I play a dad and I play a good guy, basically. He's the Secretary of the Treasury. I never had a job like that.
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I'm almost completely without family and it's a very odd feeling in life. I have no children.
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People have a good time with all the catch phrases.
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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.'
