John Harsanyi Quotes
It is our common experience as human beings that the results of social forces seem to admit only of 'probabilistic' predictions.
Quotes to Explore
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I have thought a sufficient measure of civilization is the influence of good women.
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One of my favorite vacation memories was the Thai foot massage and Internet access salons in Bangkok, followed up by my testing cellphone coverage while wading in Provincetown Harbor on Cape Cod.
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(A Foreign Secretary) is forever poised between the cliche and the indiscretion.
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I was a good decathlete until I got with a coach that really knew how to train specifically for the event... I'd really describe it as like being a juggler; you have ten balls and you're trying to get them all in the air at the same time.
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The only thing simple about the past is that it's not now.
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The functions of the family in a highly differentiated society are not to be interpreted as functions directly on behalf of the society, but on behalf of personality.
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I've been doing stand-up since I was 15 years old.
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Los Angeles was great fun because it was the polar opposite of Moscow in 1980. It was sunny and bright, lots of colours around, whereas Moscow was dark and oppressive.
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My dad is afraid of my laugh.
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A friend of mine encouraged me to try rapping, so I started experimenting with it, writing verses, seeing if I could fit an extra word or syllable into each line without tripping myself up.
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I'm most honest about writing when I'm talking to family or friends, not to newspapers.
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Academic institutions in Britain have been infiltrated for years by dangerous theocratic fantasists. I should know: I was one of them.
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I figured out early on what I wanted to do.
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It's a tough life being a pop star. You know, at the end of the day when you've paid all the bills and put the kids through college and that, you know, there's only enough left for a small island off the South Pacific.
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McCarthy emerged in the person of Senator Russ Feingold of Wisconsin.
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I'm a very private person. My life story isn't for everybody.
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I have rules for a lot of areas of my life. Love is not going to be one of them.
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I graduated from the University of Oklahoma, and I got the opportunity to take some on-camera classes while I was in school and met a casting director who informed me quite a bit before my move out to L.A.; it made L.A. feel possible, coming from Oklahoma and not having a family that was in the industry.
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Studying anthropology, I developed a kind of holistic view of human existence, in which the dichotomies you listed are all necessary and vital aspects of life.
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I've never had a moment's doubt. I love you. I believe in you completely. You are my dearest one. My reason for life.
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As a parent with a child with autism, it's been really tough to experience your child having autism.
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I love being the age I am, because if there's enough pain or grief, I have enough experience now to realize that there's joy coming around the corner.
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Everything you do, every experience that you have, enlightens you a little bit or worsens you.
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It is our common experience as human beings that the results of social forces seem to admit only of 'probabilistic' predictions.
