Jonathan Haidt Quotes
Conservatives tend to see the world more in terms of good-versus-evil and, for some of them, the nightmare is a disarmed citizenry that can be preyed upon by criminals. They know that having a gun in the house would increase the risk of an accident for a member of their family, but they're willing to take that risk.Jonathan Haidt
Quotes to Explore
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The return to normality is a defeat for the terrorists.
Carles Puigdemont -
Everybody gets dressed every day, and whatever you decide to get dressed in that morning is communicating something.
Hailey Gates -
I liberate minds with my music. That's more important than liberating a few people from apartheid or whatever.
Kanye West -
I'm not looking to shock anyone.
Victoria Justice -
I love Nelly. He's such a great performer. He's so hyper and so am I.
Fergie The Black Eyed Peas -
I've never got into debt and I've always been in control of my taxes and VAT, but having four children costs a lot. They are my weakness.
Sadie Frost
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Americans should be wary of the Muslim Brothers in Egypt but not scared of them.
Ian Lustick -
I've never been that guy who says, 'Ooh, I have to play King Lear'. First off, that'd be a disaster anyway. I tend to read something and see who's involved, and then know I want to be part of it. But I don't think I'm through with comedy. I still love to make people laugh.
Ted Danson -
I'll tell you what's helped me my entire life. I look at baseball as a game. It's something where people can go out, enjoy and have fun. Nothing more.
Harry Caray -
My company invents all kinds of new technology in lots of different areas. And we do that for a couple of reasons. We invent for fun - invention is a lot of fun to do - and we also invent for profit. The two are related because the profit actually takes long enough that if it isn't fun, you wouldn't have the time to do it.
Nathan Myhrvold -
If it weren't for how esoteric the art world likes to be, I would love actually to play the music in the shows, painting the music that influences me most.
Damian Loeb -
I write the novels that are possible for me to write, not that ones I think will come across in a certain light.
Rachel Kushner
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As a state senator and then a congressman, I've had the privilege of trying to do good things for people to whom I owe so much and can never fully repay.
Gary Ackerman -
I've done my coaching badges, I've got my Pro Licence, but I enjoy what I'm doing now. I'm also the elite performance director of the Welsh FA. The main thing for me was always Liverpool Football Club and my country, Wales - and I'm lucky enough to still be involved with both of them.
Ian Rush -
You can make a hit song in 15 minutes. I don't know about someone else's song, but songs that people like of mine, I've created in 15 minutes or less.
Action Bronson -
If I'm trying to please every craze fan, then I can't. Of course, we all want to please the fans.
Zooey Deschanel -
Let not the 12 million Negroes be ashamed of the fact that they are the grandchildren of slaves. There is dishonor in being slave-owners.
Mahatma Gandhi -
Thus it is necessary to commence from an inescapable duality: the finite is not the infinite.
Hans Urs von Balthasar
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We shall find no fiend in hell can match the fury of a disappointed woman,-scorned, slighted, dismissed without a parting pang.
Colley Cibber -
The rich are always going to say that, you know, just give us more money and we'll go out and spend more and then it will all trickle down to the rest of you. But that has not worked the last 10 years, and I hope the American public is catching on.
Warren Buffett -
There was one thing more than any other that turned this New York, liberal, Jewish, Columbia University graduate student away from modern liberalism: its use of moral equivalence to avoid confronting evil during the Cold War.
Dennis Prager -
Conservatives tend to see the world more in terms of good-versus-evil and, for some of them, the nightmare is a disarmed citizenry that can be preyed upon by criminals. They know that having a gun in the house would increase the risk of an accident for a member of their family, but they're willing to take that risk.
Jonathan Haidt