Jonathan Haidt Quotes
Politics is really religion. Politics is about sacredness. Politics is about offering a vision that will bind the nation together to pursue greatness.
Quotes to Explore
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North Korea is not an undeveloped country; it is a country that has fallen out of the developed world.
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There is definitely a way in which women are raised to be less proactive, less business-oriented, and less willing to jump into creative no man's land. I think media has more of an influence on how we perceive gender identity than anything else.
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What Washington needs is adult supervision.
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For me, if I'm just killing time, I play solitaire. I'm also guilty of playing Snood. I like games where I can shoot balls and match colors.
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The more I talk about things, the more I understand myself.
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I never really address myself to any image anybody has of me. That's like fighting with ghosts.
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Reverence the deacons as you would the command of God.
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The good news is when you open up in Vegas, you have a lot of friends, because they all come over to see your opening night.
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What you want to do, particularly when you're dealing with a professional sports league and franchises and people's passionate commitment to the game and for the team they root for is, it has to be sustainable.
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There's nothing called a perfect pick-up line. Men always have to face the risk of rejection.
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We have to always hope in humanity that people will make the right choices.
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When I graduated college, I had a fairly successful weekly club gig and was buying more studio equipment and writing my own music. I realized I didn't want to work.
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I have perfectly symmetrical ankles.
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No one's ever happy with their position in Hollywood. You hear that from people you'd never dream would complain.
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Colorado cannot afford to become the next California, with skyrocketing taxes that hurt our state's economy and our quality of life.
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I think what's fascinating is how many people are playing in politics who maybe haven't played before.
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People don't know how to listen, and it's not their fault. In school, we learn how to read, we learn how to write - but nobody teaches you how to listen.
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It was just one of those moments in the universe that was mine.
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Cuba never had advisors in Vietnam. The military there knew very well how to conduct their war.
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Prudence is not the same thing as caution. Caution is a helpful strategy when you're crossing a minefield; it's a disaster when you're in a gold rush.
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Painting (like poetry) chooses from universals what is most apposite. It brings together in a single imaginery being circumstances and characteristics which occur in nature in many different persons.
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Our foreign policy is a complete and total disaster. No vision. No purpose. No direction. No strategy.
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If President Barack Obama had not been in the White House, we would not have the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau today.
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Politics is really religion. Politics is about sacredness. Politics is about offering a vision that will bind the nation together to pursue greatness.
