Paul Bloom Quotes
If our moral attitudes are entirely the result of nonrational factors, such as gut feelings and the absorption of cultural norms, they should either be stable or randomly drift over time, like skirt lengths or the widths of ties. They shouldn't show systematic change over human history. But they do.Paul Bloom
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I have fun going on Twitter and the Internet. I feel safe and comfortable, and I wish everyone could feel that way.
Mallory Ortberg -
The battle in American politics used to be for the middle. Now, it's all about the building and the intensity of support on the far left and far right wings of both parties. And we have forgotten about the people here in the middle.
Hamilton Jordan -
Odd how much it hurts when a friend moves away- and leaves behind only silence.
Pam Brown -
If you keep on saying things are going to be bad, you have a good chance of being a prophet.
Isaac Bashevis Singer -
China is a country, still, of great contrast. While hundreds of millions of people are part of the middle class and yearn for things made in America - American brands, movies, music - there are other hundreds of millions of people throughout China who are living on the equivalent of one U.S. dollar a day.
Gary Locke -
My movies are, more or less, very short. I'm terrified of boring an audience.
Patrice Leconte
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Man becomes great exactly in the degree in which he works for the welfare of his fellow-men.
Mahatma Gandhi -
My mind boggles at the amount of violence inflicted upon children in today's society.
Samantha Morton -
The security and the future of Jordan is hand-in-hand with the future of the Palestinians and the Israelis.
Abdullah II of Jordan -
Hillary Clinton almost got to be president. The reasons why she didn't become president had to do with bad judgments about how to handle the early caucus states, which is not a gender-specific trait.
Gail Collins -
I think whenever you see what may be the seeds of a third party, you need to be very skeptical because there's not a very good track record for third parties.
Candy Crowley -
Yeah, I lost court cases and misdemeanor juries, but of felony jury trials I was successful 105 of 106 times.
Vincent Bugliosi
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In the landscape of extinction, precision is next to godliness.
Samuel Beckett -
If you tell the truth you get into trouble, and that's why politicians are extremely dull.
Rachel Johnson -
Being funny with a funny voice is more my comfort zone, a broader character that I try to humanize, a kind of silly or wacky persona that I try to fill in.
Hank Azaria -
I don't have many friends.
Larry David -
A film set is the most comfortable place I could be in the world; that's what I know.
Dakota Johnson -
Everyone says romance goes flying out the window when you've been together for an X amount of time. I think it's all up to you.
Malaika Arora Khan
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I wasn't the most popular girl in school by any means.
Cindy Crawford -
I don't want people to think I think I am the most diverse thing fashion has ever seen or whatever. But there are so many different walks of life that I don't represent, and there is no one person who does.
Barbie Ferreira -
It is never what a poem says that matters, but what it is.
I. A. Richards -
When people are standing up for our present rotten system, they are being worse than Communists, it seems to me.
Dorothy Day -
All of us live in history, whether we are aware of it or not, and die in drama. The sense of history and of drama comes to a man not because of who he is or what he does but flickeringly, as he is caught up in events, as his personality reacts, as he sees for a moment his place in the great flowing river of humanity.
Carl Mydans -
If our moral attitudes are entirely the result of nonrational factors, such as gut feelings and the absorption of cultural norms, they should either be stable or randomly drift over time, like skirt lengths or the widths of ties. They shouldn't show systematic change over human history. But they do.
Paul Bloom