Jonathan Haidt Quotes
When I began my work on how morality varies across the political spectrum, there was a partisan, manipulative element to it. I wanted to help the Democrats win.Jonathan Haidt
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I always played to win.
Hansie Cronje -
I think most families have a few secrets or some strange aspect to their history. We're all fascinated by family dynamics, but I'd much rather sit in an audience and watch someone else's problems!
Ed Harris -
The principle of the endless melody is the perpetual becoming of a music that never had any reason for starting, any more than it has any reason for ending.
Igor Stravinsky -
I lose film roles because I'm a person who doesn't keep quiet about certain things. But if my heart tells me something is wrong, I'm going to go and do something about it.
Q'orianka Kilcher -
Civilization is merely an advance in taste: accepting, all the time, nicer things, and rejecting nasty ones.
Katharine Elizabeth Fullerton Gerould -
I like to go out and write. So I'll often go to a Starbucks or a local coffee bar, and I'll sit there and I'll write. I can write pretty much anywhere.
Harlan Coben
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I've bought some Lanvin snake-print wedges, so maybe you'll see me pushing the pram in those and my hotpants!
Abbey Clancy -
I redefined how I ate and exercised and have continued to keep that up because it feels great.
Beck Bennett -
I don't care about the quality of the film as a whole, but I loved 'Salt.' I loved it!
Danai Gurira -
The good news is that real-world hands-on conservation is alive and well and catching on across the America I travel.
Ted Nugent -
I have the potential to be very strong and powerful, sometimes angry, sometimes passionate. I also can be shy and withhold that because I am afraid. I don't want to freak anybody out with my passion... So I struggle with that all the time.
Idina Menzel -
Well, yes, as I was a rather bad actor then and I wasn't making enough money, I thought, to make enough money to not make money as an actor, I'd better do some writing.
Val Guest
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Since there are only so many ways to kill a person, a good portion of homicides look pretty much alike.
Pat Brown -
I had seen some films made about the underground music world in Tehran, and most of them were short documentaries about 30 or 40 minutes long. And I always wondered why they weren't publicized more. Really, their only flaw was they were short documentaries.
Bahman Ghobadi -
Let us have no machine-made ornament at all; it is all bad and worthless and ugly.
Oscar Wilde -
I love looking through magazines, and you know, I love getting dressed up to go to events and stuff.
Mandy Moore -
I was the family alien. Both my parents are quite creative, but I was... appalling... always putting on little shows. I was rather a shy child, not a natural performer, but there was a performative edge to everything I did.
Laura Wade -
Commonsense is the realised sense of proportion.
Mahatma Gandhi
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I think Sarah Palin is amazing. I totally admire her.
Nadine Dorries -
I studied English literature in the honors program, which means that you had to take courses in various centuries. You had to start with Old English, Middle English, and work your way toward the modern. I figured if I did that it would force me to read some of the things I might not read on my own.
Jeffrey Eugenides -
I'm probably not as good in the topics that I'm less passionate about than the ones I spend all my time on.
Ann Makosinski -
Maid of Athens, ere we part, Give, oh give me back my heart!
Lord Byron -
When I began my work on how morality varies across the political spectrum, there was a partisan, manipulative element to it. I wanted to help the Democrats win.
Jonathan Haidt