Jonathan Haidt Quotes
Social conservatives are very focused on strengthening the family, and I think they are right to do so. One of the worst blind spots of the Left has been its reluctance to say that marriage matters for children.
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Islam means peace.
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What Washington needs is adult supervision.
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I've had five weddings but if I'm really honest and if I count significant de factos... I've had nine husbands... which sounds appalling but when you consider I started at 18 and I'm 65 it's not so bad.
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It's super trippy coming to America because we know everything about it - from music and film. I know what a Southern accent sounds like; I know what a New York accent sounds like.
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I think, as far as branching out with acting, it would take something really right on the mark to distract me from music, because music is everything to me.
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I have discovered the art of deceiving diplomats. I tell them the truth and they never believe me.
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Wear comfortable clothes when you fly; my preference is T-shirt and jeans.
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Allah will help him who moves in the way of Allah.
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I am aware that in presenting myself as the advocate of the Indians and their rights, I shall stand very much alone.
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My 'Big Bang Theory' costar Johnny Galecki went off the grid. He bought a huge ranch and goes there every weekend. He keeps telling me to do the same thing, but I don't know if I'm that committed. The Valley is as far off the grid as I'm going to go.
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I do think that the audience thinks it's funny when you break, but if you do it all the time, it loses something.
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With only 2 percent of the world's proven reserves of oil, we in the United States can pump until we are blue in the face and it will not change the fact that we need more diverse and more secure sources of energy.
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We have learned how to do a lot of things. We must try to relearn why.
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I would love to option 'Crying of Lot 49' and turn it into a movie.
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I've got that Beethoven energy, that Stravinsky energy. And it's all a gift from the Creator.
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I don't know, I like the word sassy.
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People who worry about their hair all the time, frankly, are boring.
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I've learned that I've got to keep level-headed.
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No production without a need. But consumption reproduces the need.
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Nobody ever asked me to do anything. Nobody knew what to do. When comics were brand new, nobody knew what kind of comics to make. So you were mostly on your own.
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I'm not particularly ethnically Scottish; I have one grandfather who is Scottish, although he's called Macdonald, and you don't get a lot more Scottish than that. The Scottish part of my family are from Skye, and I've always been very aware of that - always been very attracted to Scottish subject matter, I guess.
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It's a wonderful thing to be optimistic. It keeps you healthy and it keeps you resilient.
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If I existed 200 years ago, all the other farmers in my community would be like, 'That guy is worthless! He's sitting on a rock, jumping up like a frog, coming up with weird concepts and ideas, making faces, and combing his hair into a giant pastry.' It's a good thing I was born in this century, when superfluous television seems to be part of the economy.
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Social conservatives are very focused on strengthening the family, and I think they are right to do so. One of the worst blind spots of the Left has been its reluctance to say that marriage matters for children.
