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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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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In the beginning [of my career] I definitely felt a responsibility because I was representing a bunch of people [Sri lankans] who never got represented before. I felt this responsibility to correct that situation, to be like, "Look, you can't discriminate against refugees and Muslim people and blah, blah, blah . . ."
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Music is a spiritual doorway. ... Its power comes from the fact that It plugs directly into the soul.
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I've got some words of wisdom.
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Philosophers are smart, analytical, and skeptical. For these reasons they are relatively unbiased.
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I understand shipping - you have to expect to pay for the stamps or for the freight company - but what's this handling they always have? How much does handling cost, anyway? I don't want a lot of people handling something I'm going to buy before I get it. How much would it cost if you didn't handle it before you sent it to me?
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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.
