Paul Bloom Quotes
If our wondrous kindness is evidence for God, is our capacity for great evil proof of the Devil?
Quotes to Explore
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We share a wonderful, I think, physical or geographical heritage.
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I grew up with my stepfather in Brighton, but I did spend a lot of time with my natural father, and I was loved by both, so I suppose the advantage of this was that I wasn't bound by one set of experiences; I always had an alternative.
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We have this idea that extroverts are better salespeople. As a result, extroverts are more likely to enter sales; extroverts are more likely to get promoted in sales jobs. But if you look at the correlation between extroversion and actual sales performance - that is, how many times the cash register actually rings - the correlation's almost zero.
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This dragonfly came up to me. He was hovering right in front of my face, and I was really examining him, thinking, How does he see me? I became enlightened.
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In writing about Harold and Maureen with their terrible unspoken secret, and all those people that Harold meets as he walks to save a friend's life, I was trying to celebrate the ordinary people.
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When I was in school, there was no such thing as girls' athletics.
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But I'm not objective when I'm acting.
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In sum, we took energy for granted, assuming when we flipped the switch, the lights would go on and assuming that there would always be plenty of cheap fuel for our vehicles.
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When you're a mom to three children, nothing bothers you. Trust me. Who cares what people say? I've got other things to deal with.
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I'm lucky in some ways in that I really don't need more than five or so hours of sleep.
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I loved anything to do with animals from a very early age.
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The surface is all you get of me.
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As long as the Pentagon bankrolls the Pakistan army to fight its wars, and NATO troops remain in Afghanistan, there will be quarrels, charges of infidelity, a reduction in the household allowance, perhaps a separation - but a divorce? Never.
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From day one, I got addicted to being on stage and getting the applause and laughter.
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Self-esteem is made up primarily of two things: feeling lovable and feeling capable.
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David Lee Roth had the idea that if you covered a successful song, you were half way home. C'mon - Van Halen doing 'Dancing in the Streets'? It was stupid. I started feeling like I would rather bomb playing my own songs than be successful playing someone else's music.
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The trouble with music appreciation in general is that people are taught to have too much respect for music they should be taught to love it instead.
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At 62, I remain clean and sober and my ponytail remains erect.
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A public office is not a job, it is an opportunity to do something for the public.
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I always believed in God, I would go to mass most of the time, but I had no idea of the calling to holiness.
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Mom would say, 'Get out of the house,' and we would just go. We had all sorts of large swings and flying foxes and various death traps throughout the forest that we'd try and do our best to hurt ourselves on. It was a great childhood in terms of being creative, I think.
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Be careful who you trust, the devil was once an angel.
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No great art has ever been made without the artist having known danger.
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If our wondrous kindness is evidence for God, is our capacity for great evil proof of the Devil?
