Philip Zimbardo Quotes
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To the poet fated to be a poet, self-expression is as natural and as involuntary as breathing is to us ordinary mortals.
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It was like an honor thing for me to meet 50 cause I respected his whole story.
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Metaphysics is a dark ocean without shores or lighthouse, strewn with many a philosophic wreck.
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First developed as a weapon by the U.S. Army, VX is an oily, odorless and tasteless liquid that kills on contact with the skin or when inhaled in aerosol form. Like other nerve agents, it is treatable in the first minutes after exposure but otherwise leads swiftly to fatal convulsions and respiratory failure.
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We don't need to bring down the rich folk to help the poor.
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I can speak French, understand Gaelic and know my history. That's the training music has given me.
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I open the doors for everybody all the time.
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I don't really have a type. I don't want to be a cliche. But personality is a big thing for me. You can find cute guys all over. But he's got to have some sort of sense of humor, which is so hard to find in a guy. He's got to be a bit smart.
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The mullahs are part of the past in Iran, not its future. But change in Iran will come through engagement, not through confrontation.
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I love the crowds at festivals because they're so chilled out.
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St. Louis sprawls where mighty rivers meet - as broad as Philadelphia, but three stories high instead of two, with wider streets and dirtier atmosphere, over the dull-brown of wide, calm rivers. The city overflows into the valleys of Illinois and lies there, writhing under its grimy cloud.
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Tennis is for me joy, nothing less than that.
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People don't hear me talk. They don't expect me to.
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I wrote my first book when I was in my late thirties.
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I don't know why everyone feels the pressure to look young. Personally, I hate it. I don't want to inject Botox and look young forever. It's living in denial and anything that has an undercurrent of this philosophy is bad for your growth.
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I can take any truth; just don't lie to me.
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Fear may come true that which one is afraid of.
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A group of white South Africans recently killed a black lawyer because he was black. That was wrong. They should have killed him because he was a lawyer.
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My kids learned to be independent.
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If you've got Mystique as your girlfriend the fun you could have in bed – I've just imagined X-Men 3 might open with me in bed with Patrick Stewart.
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The whole sector of public dialogue has been totally contaminated, deliberately, by the corporate sector. The whole purpose is to sow confusion and doubt, and it's worked.
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My interest was directed, from my medical student days, to Immunology, and particularly to the mechanism of hypersensitivity. I had suffered from bronchial asthma as a child and had developed a deep curiosity in allergic phenomena.
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I came from a real tough neighborhood. Why, every time I shut the window I hurt somebody's fingers.
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Being hurt personally triggered a curiosity about how such beliefs are formed.
