D. A. Pennebaker Quotes
You can't point a camera at someone and find out what's in their head. But it does the next best thing - it lets you speculate.
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You have family-owned businesses that have been around for 500 years. You cannot name a corporation that survives intact for even a few decades.
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It's a voluntary act. I cannot punish anyone not taking the public transport, but I want everyone, from the highest ranking officers to the lowest, to take public transport every Wednesday.
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I think protecting your family and giving to them is so important. It's the most important achievement.
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In 1960, John F. Kennedy rode a superior televised debate performance to victory over Richard Nixon.
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When President Hassan Rouhani was elected in Iran in 2013, he welcomed back the far-flung children of Iran. But one by one, they have been arrested and imprisoned upon their return, a fate that has made me increasingly reluctant to risk going back to a homeland I've not seen since 1992.
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I think the real needs in the country are for cultural renewal.
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The biological evolutionary perception of life and of human qualities is radically different from that of traditional religion, whether it's Southern Baptist or Islam or any religion that believes in a supernatural supervalance over humanity.
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I don't believe in luck. ... It's persistence, hard work, and not forgetting your dream.
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We open this review because the dispute surrounding the studies bears directly on important questions about the federally funded work upon which climate studies rely and the quality and transparency of analyses used to support the IPCC assessment process.
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Hello! Your dear father is unfortunately very dead," he called. "And you said my dispersal system would never work!
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Only make decisions that support your self-image, self-esteem, and self-worth.
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Some women have a weakness for shoes... I can go barefoot if necessary. I have a weakness for books.
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Whatever you think, be sure it is what you think; whatever you want, be sure that is what you want; whatever you feel, be sure that is what you feel.
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You're very lucky... Friends are precious, powerful things - hard to earn, harder still to keep. You should thank this one for taking a chance on you.
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There are major disappointments with the outcomes of Solidarity: corruption, and major pockets of economic backwardness and even poverty. By and large, though, if there were a choice between the life Poles led in the 1970s and 1980s and now, nobody but a lunatic would say they wanted to have back what they had before.
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America’s possibilities are limitless, for we possess all the qualities that this world without boundaries demands: youth and drive; diversity and openness; an endless capacity for risk and a gift for reinvention. My fellow Americans, we are made for this moment, and we will seize it - so long as we seize it together.
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The live audience is a blind date. The camera is a hungry lover. One wants to be wined and dined and seduced and then decide where the evening will go. The other knows how it wants to be touched, wants it now and can damn well tell if you are lying about it. Both are fickle. Both feel good. Depends on your mood.
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You can't point a camera at someone and find out what's in their head. But it does the next best thing - it lets you speculate.
