Paul Bloom Quotes
I have my own difficulty with movies in which the suffering of the characters is too real, and many find it difficult to watch comedies that rely too heavily on embarrassment; the vicarious reaction to this is too unpleasant.
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There will be statues of Bill Gates across the Third World. There's a reasonable shot that - because of his money - we will cure malaria.
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I try to give the appearance that I have it all together and that I know what I'm talking about, but at the end of the day, I think I might be full of crap.
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I'm not an American, but I have this weird connection to America in different ways through my dad living here for five years, my godfather being an American who I'm very close to.
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The most striking development of the great depression of 1929 is a profound skepticism of the future of contemporary society among large sections of the American people.
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My mom and stepdad were strict. I couldn't date; I couldn't go out. And I was a kid who was never good at just taking no for an answer. I needed to understand why. And sometimes they weren't interested in explaining.
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Anger is the enemy of non-violence and pride is a monster that swallows it up.
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Our goal is to build this up as a knowledge base that anyone can look at. We're not just interested in people answering their friends' one-off questions.
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There's a difference between a failure and a fiasco... a fiasco is a disaster of mythic proportions.
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I hope my tongue in prune juice smothers, If I belittle dogs and mothers.
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I am a movie fan across the board, though, so if a movie is well done then I love it and it does not really matter what the genre is.
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In Japan, there's a TV series called Jin. It deals with time travel. I like stories about time travel. It's a story about people living in modern day that travel back to the Edo era. Those things really interest me.
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I try to get away and take my motorcycle on a ride whenever I can. I'll take my bike out before the show and just cruise.
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In nature there are few sharp lines.
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He had no failings which were not owing to a noble cause; to an ardent, generous, perhaps an immoderate passion for fame; a passion which is the instinct of all great souls.
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Even before I auditioned for 'X Factor' the second time, I was doing a lot of dance music.
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I always say you've only got one life to live, and you're not promised a tomorrow. So, you might as well just have a good time with it.
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Jay Leno is not a guy who likes change. He eats the same food every day.
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If a farmer fills his barn with grain, he gets mice. If he leaves it empty, he gets actors.
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My race and sex had a great deal more to do with what people believed I could do than with what I actually could do.
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The worst thing about cynicism is its truth.
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What I wish is that people would look beyond the tribbles and see I've written some other books that I really would like people to notice. There's 'The Man Who Folded Himself,' there's 'The Martian Child,' which is about my son and the adoption. There's 'The War Against The Chtorr,' which is my magnum opus, my great epic story.
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A doctor once told me I have abnormal levels of adrenaline in my system.
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I have my own difficulty with movies in which the suffering of the characters is too real, and many find it difficult to watch comedies that rely too heavily on embarrassment; the vicarious reaction to this is too unpleasant.
