Philip Zimbardo Quotes
The Stanford prison experiment came out of class exercises in which I encouraged students to understand the dynamics of prison life.
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At some point, you grow out of being attracted to that flame that burns you over and over and over again.
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There's nothing wrong with being anthropomorphic. That's how we understand the world.
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I've always done 20 things at once. It's my way of staying alive, not to keep one dish cooking, but several dishes going. And I'm pretty organized.
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Now, everybody knows my music. So that's really cool. A lot of kids know it. Now, when I go to a sports game, everybody knows my name.
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As the great grandchildren of the industrial revolution, we have learned, at last, that the heedless pursuit of more is unsustainable and, ultimately, unfulfilling. Our planet, our security, our sense of equanimity and our very souls demand something better, something different.
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People say I have my own Cinderella story, and in a way, I guess I do.
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I believe in reincarnation of the soul.
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It's important to learn and not repeat the same mistakes. What's done is done.
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For some reason, I spent my early thirties reading as much postwar Hungarian fiction as I could get my hands on.
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LeBron James can get a shot off under any and all circumstances and he makes them.
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Enough to using Texas as a political laboratory for testing far-right ideas. Enough to using Texas as a workshop for fattening the wallets of their special interest friends and supporters. And enough of politicians listening only to each other, rather than real Texans.
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I love Shakira - she is such a beautiful person. She does so many good things for the world on top of making good music. And she is an awesome mom. When you are Latina, it is all about family, and to see that she prioritizes family and her career at the same time is really nice.
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Virtue has its own reward, but no sale at the box office.
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The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything.
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Music is universal too. Even deaf people like to dance, love rhythm, and can kind of pick it up.
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It is only in the world of objects that we have time and space and selves.
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Even if I flop, I still qualified for the Games, and that was my goal. My target was to be at an Olympics for the third time with people I like.
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News conferences are the only chance the American public has to see Ronald Reagan use his mind.
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Let's face it: I look pretty out of shape.
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Any society where it's a crime or a hassle to be different is a society based on psychological fascism.
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And I tell you that whether or not these projection images are hallucinations, they can be dangerous and you must respect the reality in which they exist. I want to be sure that you realize that some of these constructions will belong to other systems. You are safe as long as you do not meddle. You may explore, and freely, and that is all.
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We live in this era that has benefited from the Industrial Revolution, and we live with a kind of luxury and plenty that even all but the poorest of Americans live with a kind of sensuousness that was unimagined by medieval kings. But in order to get to this point, a lot of people had to suffer in really terrible ways.
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The Stanford prison experiment came out of class exercises in which I encouraged students to understand the dynamics of prison life.
