Philip Zimbardo Quotes
At North Hollywood High School, I was shunned by everyone. I would sit down in the cafeteria, and students would get up from the table and walk away. They thought I was from the Mafia.
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There was Pauline de Rothschild, who I thought was very fabulous, and Millicent Rogers, the Standard Oil heiress, very chic, very clever, very original. I admired both those women very much. And I had a great example with my mother, who was extremely chic.
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I really enjoy comedy. It's a real challenge.
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I think it all comes down to motivation. If you really want to do something, you will work hard for it.
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Lyrically, I personally lean towards venting.
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Until Lee Elder, the only blacks at the Masters were caddies or waiters. To ask a black man what he feels about the traditions of the Masters is like asking him how he feels about his forefathers who were slaves.
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Questions that require answers are what keep readers going - and the place to start raising those questions is with your very first sentence.
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I hate to witness animals in captivity - or see circus elephants paraded down the streets. When animals are caged, it's a loss of what they are.
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There is still a funny notion that women should not write violent fiction.
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Science is not everything, but science is very beautiful.
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If I could be more vague I'd write more about people in my life, but I hate hurting feelings or making people feel uncomfortable. I've done that before. Unless they're sad songs. Those get finished fast, but the mean ones often end up at the back of the bottom drawer and it's probably for the best.
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We all understand it's a privilege just to be playing in this league.
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Everybody around the world wants to send their kids to our universities. But nobody wants to send their kids here to public school.
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The nation is faced with one of the most corporate-orientated anti-consumer Congresses in our history.
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There's something extremely bizarre about the way people consume media now.
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Sailors ought never to go to church. They ought to go to hell, where it is much more comfortable.
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I write novels, mostly historical ones, and I try hard to keep them accurate as to historical facts, milieu and flavor.
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A lot of times on tour it's about, 'OK, where am I today? Wow, I'm in Costa Rica. What is their famous dish?' And it's about trying the food, and really experiencing it.
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I remember when the palm trees were short and Tomorrowland was modern.
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I'm a real romantic.
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We must become more comfortable with probability and uncertainty.
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As an Irish person, there's a historical fascination with America: America is the default green and promised land for Irish people and Italians; that's what we grow up with.
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Subject matter is sort of overemphasized in the way books get discussed, I think.
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If language did not affect behavior, it could have no meaning.
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At North Hollywood High School, I was shunned by everyone. I would sit down in the cafeteria, and students would get up from the table and walk away. They thought I was from the Mafia.
