Paul Bloom Quotes

I don't doubt that the explanation for consciousness will arise from the mercilessly scientific account of psychology and neuroscience, but, still, isn't it neat that the universe is such that it gave rise to conscious beings like you and me?

Paul Bloom

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• Politics and power is a realm of relative influence.

  

  Fareed Zakaria
  • Power
  • Politics
  • Influence

• You always need that spark of imagination. Sometimes I'm midway through a book before it happens. However, I don't wait for the muse to descend, I sit down every day and I work when I'm not delivering lambs on the farm.

  

  Barbara Kingsolver
  • Work
  • Book
  • Day

• Discipline is not a nasty word.

  

  Pat Riley
  • Discipline
  • Word
  • Nasty

• The art of healing comes from nature, not from the physician. Therefore the physician must start from nature, with an open mind.

  

  Paracelsus
  • Mind
  • Art
  • Nature

• 'Power' is a very special film for me and is one of the finest films of my career. I have played a character that I have never done before. My role has a lot of comedy.

  

  Hansika Motwani
  • Character
  • Power
  • Career

• What happens in the media is the cult of personality. The brands who have been forced to cut their staff have been forced to take on the brands of journalists.

  

  Fareed Zakaria
  • Personality
  • Media
  • Take

• There are more than 200,000 people in Maputo who are nothing more than parasites.

  

  Samora Machel
  • People
  • Nothing
  • More

• Obama is a great man who's just beginning to understand the realities. And I'm not just saying that because he reads my books. I would have voted for him anyway.

  

  E. L. Doctorow
  • Great
  • Man
  • Beginning

• Nonchalance is the ability to remain down to earth when everything else is up in the air.

  

  Earl Wilson
  • Up
  • Earth
  • Air

• My mom is super fabulous, and I remember her telling me at 13, 'You can start wearing makeup now.' And the funny thing is, I didn't take her up on it!

  

  Samira Wiley
  • Up
  • Remember
  • Funny

• It makes me feel good that I can now sit there and go, I've worked with Jack Nicholson, Al Pacino, all the great actors that I've worked with... Sir Ben Kingsley.

  

  Aaron Eckhart
  • Good
  • Great
  • Me

• We remained in Texas leading a quiet home life until 1889.

  

  Calamity Jane
  • Life
  • Home
  • Texas

• I wanted to get into films, and my parents were against it. I convinced my mom, and finally she convinced my dad. My dad then felt, who best to launch his son than him? So he launched me, and here I am.

  

  Vijay
  • Parents
  • Dad
  • Mom

• We all have regrets, but the thing is to learn from life.

  

  Lamar Odom
  • Life
  • Learn
  • Regrets

• It is not our sexual preferences, the color of our skin, the language we speak, nor the religion we practice that creates friction, hatred and wars amongst in society. It is our words and the words of our leaders that can create that disparity.

  

  Yehuda Berg
  • Society
  • Words
  • Practice

• As for myself, I was never against Russia.

  

  Eduard Shevardnadze
  • Myself
  • Never
  • Russia

• I love when I go to conventions, and often it'll be the younger kids who will refer to us by our character names - how can you not find that absolutely charming? I remember when I used to go to conventions when I was a kid when I would stand in long lines to get people's autograph.

  

  Yuri Lowenthal
  • People
  • Kids
  • Remember

• What is a sophisticate? He is a man who thinks he can swim better than he can and sometimes he drowns.

  

  Oscar Hammerstein II
  • Man
  • Sometimes
  • Better

• I was always into science fiction as a kid. I loved science and tinkering with things.

  

  David Hanson
  • Science

• There's nothing, repeat, nothing to be ashamed of when you're going through a depression. If you get help, the chances of your licking it are really good. But, you have to get yourself onto a safe path.

  

  Mike Wallace
  • Help
  • Depression
  • Safe

• A big reason why I'm not a big TV watcher is that in my formative years as a viewer, there wasn't that much great television on, or at least, television that appealed to me.

  

  Jack Falahee
  • Great
  • Why
  • Me

• There’s no doubt that there’s some folks who just really dislike me because they don’t like the idea of a black President.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Black
  • Doubt

• Doubt is one of the main paths on the highway to failure.

  

  Rick Pitino
  • Failure
  • Doubt
  • Main Paths

• I don't doubt that the explanation for consciousness will arise from the mercilessly scientific account of psychology and neuroscience, but, still, isn't it neat that the universe is such that it gave rise to conscious beings like you and me?

  

  Paul Bloom
  • Universe
  • Doubt
  • Psychology