Paul Bloom Quotes
Relying on the face might be human nature - even babies prefer to look at attractive people. But, of course, judging someone based on the geometry of his features is, from a moral and legal standpoint, no better than judging him based on the color of his skin.
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Ozzy has dyslexia.
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I've always really been interested in the Pygmalion myth and both what it has to say about creativity and what it has to say about relationships between men and women.
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I think there's something very dark in the South African psyche. I think we live a lot of the time in a state of a very low-grade civil war; the levels of violence in South Africa are extremely high. In a way, the civil war that never happened is being played out in a covert way, so we live with a lot of very ugly things.
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Even if you walk exactly the same route each time - as with a sonnet - the events along the route cannot be imagined to be the same from day to day, as the poet's health, sight, his anticipations, moods, fears, thoughts cannot be the same.
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Anytime you have a tight race and you lose, it's not pleasant.
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I identified with white culture, and I wanted to fit in. I didn't identify with black culture. Like, I didn't like Tyler Perry movies, and I wasn't into hip-hop music. I liked Neil Young.
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When I first came out with my fans and the wind hit me, I almost took off.
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In North Germany, a troublesome ghost is bagged, and the bag emptied in some lone spot or in the garden of a neighbour against whom a grudge is entertained.
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Acting is doing. It's not speaking; it's behavior. It's something happening, even if you're only listening.
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I was deposed by a coup d'etat, by friends that I trusted and aided by the American Government.
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The mean pattern of educational and economic achievement within multi-racial countries such as Canada and the United States has increasingly been found to prove valid internationally.
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Early impressions are like glimpses seen through the window by night when lightning is about.
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You get steely nerves playing poker.
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True character arises from a deeper well than religion.
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I don't like people waiting on me. I feel it is an unnecessary expense.
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I'm very fortunate to have gotten past the cancer problem.
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You cannot govern, you cannot administrate, with an ignoramus.
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Although my art work was heavily informed by my design work on a formal and visual level, as regards meaning and content the two practices parted ways.
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Truth is something which can't be told in a few words. Those who simplify the universe only reduce the expansion of its meaning.
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A pitcher is not a ballplayer.
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I think any time you increase focus, increase speed, all those are going to help any business.
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I grew up with no money. No money. I always struggled and had the sense that there was this other class of people who went to college - this was when I was younger.
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You can't please everyone. When you're too focused on living up to other people's standards, you aren't spending enough time raising your own. Some people may whisper, complain and judge. But for the most part, it's all in your head. People care less about your actions than you think. Why? They have their own problems!
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Relying on the face might be human nature - even babies prefer to look at attractive people. But, of course, judging someone based on the geometry of his features is, from a moral and legal standpoint, no better than judging him based on the color of his skin.
