Paul Bloom Quotes
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The gift of sobriety is clarity and a sense of connection - and travel only enhances that.
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I firmly believe that any good journalist must essentially be temperamentally an outsider. I don't think full sense of belonging and security is conducive to creativity.
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The classical example of a successful research programme is Newton's gravitational theory: possibly the most successful research programme ever.
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Hair and make-up always helps. I did always try to be well-groomed, professional at all times. Take your job seriously - but not yourself.
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I will be up at 8 A.M. making spaghetti bolognese for Peter and Sophia's evening meal if I'm working that day. I may not get back for the evening, and I worry if I don't do that, then they won't eat anything.
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The crown must constantly earn citizens' appreciation, respect and trust.
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As an actress, as you get older, you find yourself in a situation where you play mothers or women who are hoping to be mothers.
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What matters is discovering myself under the veneer, under the layers that are wrapped around me. There are two 'yous'; there's 'you', the real you, and then there's the image.
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To me, AIDS is an international epidemic and every country can be affected by it. Therefore, it can be discussed on an international level. Unfortunately, AIDS doesn't require a visa.
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I didn't have any Indigenous friends until I was in my 30s, and I'll always remember and be inspired by the remarkable friendship I had with Connie Bush, an outstanding Indigenous leader from Groot Eylandt on who was on the National Women's Advisory Council with me.
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What I love to do requires portraying different characters, and you have to separate your life from the role.
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Every blade of grass is a study; and to produce two, where there was but one, is both a profit and a pleasure.
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Talking to a conservative is like talking to your refrigerator... You know, the light goes on, the light goes off; it's not going to do anything that isn't built into it... And I'm not going to talk to a conservative anymore than I talk to my damn refrigerator.
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Animistic savages prostrating themselves before a painted stone have always seemed to me to be nearer the truth than any Einstein or Bertrand Russell.
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Here I still flow in God as a small stream of time, There I shall be a sea of blessedness sublime
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The greatest theatre that I experienced in my life was The Living Theatre and they were Off-Off-Broadway. And that was in the fifties.
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Keep cool; anger is not an argument.
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In my opinion, no single design is apt to be optimal for everyone.
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There's a willful ignorance. We indulge people who are willfully misrepresenting the facts. I don't think those [anti-choice] congresspeople are as much benignly misguided as they are intentionally and willfully ignorant of the facts of reproduction. That lends itself very well to them being ideologically driven and carrying out agendas that, if they were to be really honest about the facts, would be a tougher sell.
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Each of us bears his own Hell.
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I don't pick up my work at all. If it's something that's still in progress and I have the chance to make some edits on the material or think about the order, little things like that, I'll keep those stories at hand and go through them. But once it exists as the book, it's locked away in a vault, and I kind of put it behind me.
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It is not true that Congress spends money like a drunken sailor. Drunken sailors spend their own money. Congress spends our money.
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Humans are social beings, and we are happier, and better, when connected to others.
